Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 2 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
| 3 | For many years we sought access to him and the inner sanctum of his medieval palace , until in 1981 he finally gave us the first filmed interview ever granted by one of his line . |
| 4 | Leith hardly recognised herself the next day when , with her usual free-flowing locks fastened severely in a knot at the back of her head , she donned a pair of plain glass , horn-rimmed spectacles , and surveyed the result . |
| 5 | Emperor Akihito , 56 , formally proclaimed himself the 125th emperor of Japan on Nov. 12 , in a lavish 30-minute ceremony held 20 months after the death of his father , Hirohito ( in death known as Showa ) . |
| 6 | But I still enjoyed it the second time . |
| 7 | And I like Lovejoy , except I 've missed but they 're repeats , but I never saw it the first time . |