Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would glean the last of the coffee but hardly got paid anything . |
| 2 | Richie emptied the last of the Glenlivet bottle into their glasses . |
| 3 | In fact , by Christmas 1988 , after three months solid debate , it had still not completed the first of the five subject areas laid down by Energy Secretary Cecil Parkinson at the start . |
| 4 | Willie had completed the last of the ‘ Learning to Read ’ books . |
| 5 | As a leading suffragette , she endured the first of two spells in Holloway gaol in 1907 . |
| 6 | The typical justification for undergraduate courses involves the last of the issues related to academic courses : the distinction between ‘ content ’ and ‘ process ’ . |
| 7 | Local types were beginning to be noticed , and in 1709 the English parliament passed the first of a series of Enclosure Acts which , indirectly , would lead to breed development by curtailing the traditional practice of communal grazing and random mating . |
| 8 | After a few minutes they passed the first of the estate workers ' cottages , two storey , stone-built , and around three hundred years old . |
| 9 | Only a mile on , they passed the last of the Home outposts , at Dunglass , in a strong position above another of these precipitous deans ; and soon thereafter Dunbar came in sight , town and castle jutting into the Norse Sea , the eastern gateway to the fertile Lothians , red in blood to match the now prevailing redness in soil and stone . |
| 10 | On June 5 , the Slovenian Assembly passed the last of the key laws to facilitate " the takeover of actual power " and Radio Ljubljana began a three-day presentation on the Slovenian independence process in which the Slovenian government participated . |
| 11 | Taylor , from Birkenhead , Merseyside , struck one prison officer , taking his keys , and within minutes the rioters had erected the first of a labyrinth of barricades and begun systematically destroying the chapel . |
| 12 | Bridge lengths vary from three to four rigs on the Leine to an average ten rigs on the Weser and really , given the practised excellence of the crews , this last thirty-one-rig bridge of Exercise Neptune 's Gallop 1989 should not have aroused much emotion , but it did made the thirtieth of June a little bit different . |
| 13 | And then , he made the first of his mistakes . |
| 14 | Lenihan , 32 , who made the first of his 52 international appearances against Australia in 1981 , missed all of last season 's Five Nations programme after an operation to repair damage to his neck . |
| 15 | Lenihan , 32 , who made the first of his 52 international appearances against Australia in 1981 , missed all of last season 's Five Nations programme after undergoing an operation to repair damage to his neck . |
| 16 | Altogether they were to spend 15 months in the English capital and late in April they made the first of three visits ( the others were in May and October ) to the court of King George III and Queen Charlotte . |
| 17 | It must have been towards the end of 1920 that Lord Darlington made the first of a number of trips to Berlin himself , and I can remember the profound effect it had on him . |
| 18 | In 1986 , Sir Ranulph made the first of his four attempts with Dr Michael Stroud to reach the North Pole unsupported . |
| 19 | In the early 1890s , in loyal imitation of the Queen , Gladstone made the first of a number of visits . |
| 20 | Kohl , for instance , made the first of six planned visits on Feb. 20 to address a rally of the Alliance for Germany [ see below ] attended by 100,000 in Erfurt . |
| 21 | Pérez escaped from his residence just before it was surrounded , and went to a private television station from which he made the first of four broadcasts to the nation repudiating the coup . |
| 22 | In 1910 he made the last of his great journeys across China , travelling from Honan in Central China to Russian Turkestan , a distance of 3,750 miles in 174 days . |
| 23 | It would help dispel unhappy memories for Whiteside who made the last of his 38 Northern Ireland appearances in a 3–0 Dublin defeat in 1989 before injury cruelly ended his career at just 26 . |
| 24 | He made the last of his 51 appearances against Scotland in 1984 . |
| 25 | We thus obtain unc Also , we may now choose unc and using the second of Equations ( 6 ) we now find unc We now have to find |
| 26 | Indraugnir howled and lashed out at the Bloodthirster with renewed fury , using the last of his fading strength to keep the Blood God 's follower at bay . |
| 27 | Er to answer the first answer the first of your two questions , erm , the greenbelt as defined in the greenbelt local plan is hard up , in many respects , against the edge of the built up area , excluding allocated sites , allocations above that within the Southern Ryedale area would in fact require redrawing green in a green belt boundaries . |
| 28 | There was , of course , no such safety problem , as the safety inspector subsequently confirmed , and the steward was given the first of the warning notes , as planned . |
| 29 | It is believed Stars & Stripes will sport the first of North Sails ' revolutionary seamless sails , made in a 3-D mould , before the end of this round . |
| 30 | He said it was important that the pace of change was ‘ right ’ but refused to say when he expected the last of the doomed homes to say goodbye to its last resident . |