Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pers pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | However , their fortunes were soon to enter on that switchback which took them first to a golden age , and then through impoverishment to extinction as they became first the beneficiaries of factory-produced yarn , and then the victims of their own expansion in numbers and , ultimately , of the power loom . |
2 | In July 1815 Hodgskin embarked on a walking tour which took him first to Paris and later to Germany , where he made a detailed study of the political and economic institutions of Hanover . |
3 | The National Front 's vote increased from 10.4 per cent to 15.7 per cent , which gave it second place behind the candidate of the centrist Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) . |
4 | His last two months in Kiev have made a welcome change from his tour of duty in Sri Lanka , which expelled him last year , accusing him of interfering in elections . |
5 | Durham revival ended with an 18–12 defeat at home to which left them third from the bottom of Division Four North . |
6 | What hit him most was what hit him first . |