Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 2 | Delaunay used to meet Picasso at the gatherings at the Douanier Rousseau 's , while Metzinger was a frequent visitor to Picasso 's studio in the Bateau Lavoir during the early years of Cubism , and was an important agent in transmitting the first discoveries of Picasso and Braque . |
| 3 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 4 | Typical of these was Will Zens ' To the Shores of Hell ( 1965 ) , which depicted the first landings of American Marines at Da Nang . |
| 5 | The tape was cut by Ray and Debra Mason , petrol station section manager , allowing the first customers in to take advantage of the low priced JS petrol . |
| 6 | It is extraordinary that that has been resisted even before we have received the first results . |
| 7 | Soon he was cannoning off lime trees and , as they passed the second gates , crashed into the left-hand gatepost . |
| 8 | We passed the last houses , the last streetlights . |
| 9 | Blake drunk the last drops of his beer and left . |
| 10 | It was he who made the first approaches … " |
| 11 | Simon Patiño also made the first purchases of French eighteenth-century furniture and Old Master paintings by the French School areas in which successive generations , including Jaime Ortiz-Patiño , his grandson , would collect as well . |
| 12 | Johannes Hevelius , a prosperous brewer of Danzig ( now Gdansk ) , made the first attempts to name the lunar features on his map of 1647 . |
| 13 | In December 1988 Blyth 's newly formed British Steel Challenge made the first steps towards prising open the closed shop of big boat ocean racing . |
| 14 | Durham County champion Craig Kilgour made the first steps towards his comeback last weekend when he was among a number of county players who took part in a coaching session held by English Golf Union coach Bill Ferguson . |
| 15 | On March 23 she made the first appointments to a new government . |
| 16 | Hence the marginal cost of producing the last film must be the value of the meals sacrificed by using the last units of labour to make films rather than meals . |
| 17 | They were quick to spot the first ripples of concern which have surged into a tide over the past year . |
| 18 | The long credit that the Dutch had given the first planters to get them started in Barbados in the 1640s came to an end with the Dutch war of the 1650s , which made it harder for English planters to finance development when they wanted to grow sugar in Jamaica . |
| 19 | It was four days ( during which he was given the last rites ) before his doctors gave him a chance to live through . |
| 20 | Still , in the next few days as the news began to filter in from Niki 's hospital that Niki had been given the last rites , that he had inhaled burning fuel and damaged his lungs , that his face had been appallingly burned , the facts did begin to sink in . |
| 21 | Niki Lauda displayed courage beyond all recognition in 1976 when , six weeks after being given the Last Rites , he was back behind the wheel of his Ferrari picking up points in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza . |
| 22 | At a time when Western Europe was enjoying the first benefits of industrial society , trade with the west was actually stultifying social progress and the development of industry in Poland and Prussia , and particularly in backward Pomerania . |
| 23 | The three are singing the last bars of a song . |
| 24 | As already stated , he receives the first referrals . |
| 25 | ‘ Because it would be good for some of us to see the first moments of your great fame . ’ |
| 26 | A stampede broke out , people pushing past Jezrael to the cockpit to see the first signs of other human beings through the canopy . |
| 27 | We arrived just in time to see the first members of the brass band — a trombone and a tuba — come round the corner of the lane . |
| 28 | We are only just beginning to see the first stirrings of a new debate on industry 's competitiveness . |
| 29 | As they reached the trees they heard a wild burst of cheering and turned to see the first tongues of flame licking up the walls of the cainca . |
| 30 | It is easy — too easy , perhaps — to see the last decades of the 1700s as a time of unalleviated misery for a large part of the population of the British Isles . |