Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iraq eventually announced on Aug. 28 that Kuwait had become the 19th Iraqi governorate ( liwa ) . |
| 2 | Pakistan had won the first ‘ Test ’ , at Karachi , by an innings and four runs . |
| 3 | Flockmasters had to forget the last decade when seat-of-the-pants management brought reasonable returns from a supported market . |
| 4 | The report claimed that Khmer Rouge fighters had attacked the 5th military region 's command based in the city as well as Bek Chan airport . |
| 5 | The United States had entered the Second World War with a very limited overseas basing system , but by the close of the war had acquired a massive global basing network ‘ derived from a combination of conquests , agreements with allies , and temporary arrangements with neutrals and exile regimes that had at least the potential for post-war renewal and extension ’ . |
| 6 | Earlier , Malcolm Pyrah had won the first Olympic Talent Spotters Championship on It 's Me and , though he does not believe the small seven-year-old chestnut is potential Olympic material , he echoed the widespread praise for this new series of competitions . |
| 7 | Anterior and posterior images of 30 seconds durations were recorded at 15 minute intervals starting immediately after the subjects had ingested the first course of the meal . |
| 8 | It was February 3 : on Feb 4 , two years before , Richard Hadlee had become the first to reach this once-unthinkable total . |
| 9 | Soon Downes had reached the last carriage , in front of the diesel locomotive , staring quickly through the windows of the compartment as the few doors still remaining open were banged shut and a whistle blew , and with a slight chug and then with a mighty heave the long , north-bound train began slowly to move forward , gradually picking up a little speed , before moving out and away along the curving stretch of line that led to Banbury . |
| 10 | By August 5 the cable had been laid , and Thomson had sent the first two messages over it . |
| 11 | We talked of Partition and the how the old princess had thrown the last family heirlooms — a series of beautiful inlaid jade daggers down the haveli well , in case the police arrested them for possessing offensive weapons . |
| 12 | Gould had struck the last ornithological goldmine . |
| 13 | By 9.30am yesterday morning , an hour after 90-year-old Gene Sarazen had bisected the first fairway with an open-ceremonial drive , a stain of sweat was already running down the spine of Gary Wolstenholme 's golf shirt as he tried to make head and tail of the practice putting green . |
| 14 | It was as if Dominic had spent the last two months play-acting and tonight had decided to drop the façade — totally , with no mercy . |
| 15 | But after the All Blacks had won the Second Test 59–6 Mains was rather more relaxed and in fact exuded some confidence about the prospects of his new-look team . |
| 16 | ‘ If Sir Vivien had reached the fifteenth green at the time of his abduction and Bonzo arrived in the clubhouse at ten o'clock , we can assume that Sir Vivien himself must have begun his round at , shall we say , about half past eight . ’ |
| 17 | She was not afraid of the dark , because when she was very little Maggie had had the last few scales of Fenna 's tail to suck on while she fell asleep . |
| 18 | First , the gurus argued , this slump had produced the first fall in house prices since the early 1950s . |
| 19 | Duroc had spent the last three months in France , dealing with the business of the Violent Tendency for Freedom . |
| 20 | Established British companies had exploited the first whiff of pop vitality , with ABPC putting the saccharine personality of Cliff Richard through his paces in The Young Ones ( 1961 ) , a let's-have-a-show musical where all possibility of an interesting inter-generation clash is defused by the fact that its hero works for , and adores , his father , the property developer who wants to destroy the youth club ; and Summer Holiday ( 1962 ) , in which Cliff and the Shadows drive a London bus to Rome , pursued by the mother of the teen star they are thought to have kidnapped . |
| 21 | By March 9 , helicopters had evacuated the 366th motorised infantry regiment from Stepanakert to Georgia . |
| 22 | It was the first time since 1921 that England had lost the first three Tests of a home rubber . |
| 23 | As children , she and her sister Ruth had reckoned the first outing to pick primroses as the true herald of spring . |
| 24 | Although in 1927 Barbusse had attended the First Congress of Proletarian Writers held in Moscow , and although he had appeared to voice support for the new policy of subordinating the literary process to the construction of socialism , his actual writing practice was completely out of step with the doctrinaire ideas of RAPP . |
| 25 | From Titron had come the first man who could withstand radiation , be it from a bomb , or in deep space . |
| 26 | Sir John Cockroft , the Director of Harwell , had won a Nobel Prize for his 1932 work where , with the prototype high energy nuclear accelerator , he and Ernest Walton had made the first artificial disintegration , or fission , of atomic nuclei . |
| 27 | Ants had to play the first quarter one player short and did well to hold the Saracens to 9–9 . |
| 28 | The Liberal government before the First World War had made the first tentative steps in the introduction of old-age pensions ( 1908 ) and national health and unemployment insurance ( 1911 ) . |
| 29 | The Navy had won the first round of the carrier battle : Sandys now conceded the RAF 's case for developing the TSR 2 around a new airframe instead of forcing the naval NA 39 upon them . |
| 30 | Delaney had taken the first watch with Forster . |