Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They demolished New Zealand 22–6 in the final for their third win in successive years and they effectively became the second underwater sevens champions since Australia in 1983 , the previous ‘ monsoon ’ tournament . |
| 2 | In the second Test at Port-of-Spain , he duly became the third ‘ W ’ , Weekes and Walcott having already made their debuts , and scored 97 and 28 not out . |
| 3 | His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 . |
| 4 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 5 | Only after he had set to work , at Halley 's urging , on the tract that eventually became the first book of the Principia did Newton abandon vortices and envisage attractive — and repulsive — forces in central bodies . |
| 6 | He duly produced the first work on natural history to use this new technique , Zoological Illustrations ( 6 volumes , 1820–33 ) and at the same time , Exotic Conchology ( 1821–2 ) . |
| 7 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 8 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 9 | The cork popped and Willi skilfully caught the first fountain in a glass . |
| 10 | She fussed , gave advice which she laughingly contradicted the next minute , and talked enthusiastically about the business she had just initiated . |
| 11 | In that campaign , which he ended with a score of 221 , he also rode the fastest 100 by a jump jockey , smashed Jonjo O'Neill 's record seasonal total of 149 , and not only became the first man to ride 200 winners over jumps , but the first to do so under either code since Sir Gordon Richards did so on the Flat in 1952 . |
| 12 | He personally led the last expedition to the Blighted Isle and reclaimed it from the Dark Elves . |
| 13 | I avoided M.O.D saturday evening ( WHY have the cameras for our worst home result since about 1980 ? ? ? ? ) , and only caught the last 3 goals on the Sky roundup on sunday . |
| 14 | He scored a grade A in his maths ‘ O ’ Level and naturally entered the sixth form where he flourished . |
| 15 | To sort of make out s make sure you 've got this and that so you 're ready for the confinement and er But they only came the last minute when when they were the ma mams were expecting their babies . |
| 16 | In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 17 | Lord Lane personally rejected the second appeal of the Birmingham Six in January 1988 saying , in words which returned to haunt him : ‘ As with many cases referred by the Home Secretary to the Court of Appeal , the longer the case has gone on , the more this court has been convinced that the jury was correct . ’ |
| 18 | Spreadbury , on his first trip to the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Bank-sponsored tournament , was the subject of an official protest after he inadvertently allowed the first half of a quarter-final match to overrun by 1½ minutes — a long way beyond the regulation seven minutes . |
| 19 | The remaining half-dozen or so clasped the last tattered shreds of the undergraduate life around them to keep out the cold winds of the world . |
| 20 | When asked to describe auditory sensations , McKellar 's subjects frequently reported hearing snatches of music which could be recurrent … as is illustrated by a subject who recurrently imaged the last movement of Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto . |
| 21 | Though they only opened the first supermarket in 1961 , there are over 40 today . |
| 22 | Anglicans and Protestants now not only heard the first systematic teaching on the word of God in the Church ever formulated by a Catholic Council ( for Trent had only dealt with particular points at issue with the Reformers ) , but also admired it . |
| 23 | We only switched the last few minutes on . |
| 24 | I only watched the first 10mins of the FA cup game yesterday … funny how no mention was made of Pallisters hand ball in the box … or dick head schmeichal pushing Kamara in the face . |
| 25 | Britain 's Jeremy Bates , who memorably reached the fourth round 12 months ago , has an encouraging first round match against another clay court specialist , Javier Frana , Argentina 's world No 87 . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's very early days — we only saw the first draft last month and it could be three years before it is implemented . |
| 27 | I only saw the first page which , in case you 've forgotten the system , shows the subject 's photograph , age , length of time spent in the employ of the company , when he — or she — joined us , when he — or she — left us . |
| 28 | We only saw the last |
| 29 | But even she only reached the 2nd round , before losing to Larisa Savchenko . |
| 30 | But Kelly only completed the seventh three-timer of his career after a battle with Gavin Peacock , Newcastle 's regular penalty-taker . |