Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Hayman was over-age for recruitment , he was taken into the Diplomatic Service as a first secretary in 1954 and posted the next year to Belgrade . |
| 2 | Then , his smile broadening , he passed the second file to Ellis . |
| 3 | A point of interest to myself is that our driver , Howard Bounds , shared the next bed to me during my last stay in hospital . |
| 4 | It is not natural to work through the night shift , I 've worked it , there is no way of starting a week without your Er I 've slept a night before , somewhere at the weekend , when the day comes , but you 've got to go the next night to work . |
| 5 | X landed the Cessna and made the first turnoff to the flying club . |
| 6 | Councillor Grubb today made the first call to the helpline . |
| 7 | In October Gen. Dmitri Yazov made the first visit to the USA by a Soviet Defence Minister , at the invitation of US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney . |
| 8 | On Jan. 28 , 1990 , the then State Secretary for Church Affairs , Kurt Löffler , made the first visit to Israel by an East German government official . |
| 9 | In 1850 , at his quinta ( mansion ) in Sto da Serra , John Blandy made the first butter to be sold commercially in Madeira . |
| 10 | Always bring the first needle to D position and make sure that the weaving yarn is caught in the guide so that it can be directed correctly into the path of the main carriage . |
| 11 | ‘ I never expected the first scrap to be so easy , ’ Callaghan said . |
| 12 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |
| 13 | SOUTH AFRICAN captain Kepler Wessels became the second cricketer to be dismissed by a TV replay yesterday , adjudged run-out against India on the fourth day of the second Test in Johannesburg . |
| 14 | Lady Arran , who in 1980 became the first person to top 100 mph in an offshore power boat , set the world speed record for an electric boat at just over 50 mph . |
| 15 | He was a politician and a financier , well-known in his time ; but we remember him today because on the 15th of September 1830 , at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , he became the first person to be run down and killed by a train ( that 's what he became , was turned into ) . |
| 16 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 17 | Kuntze was to take over the company 's chairmanship from Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen , who resigned in March and who on May 10 became the first person to be arrested over the affair . |
| 18 | Today he became the first person to be charged under a new law introduced this month of causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 19 | Durie became the first footballer to be convicted of feigning injury nine weeks ago after a confrontation with Coventry 's Andy Pearce in August . |
| 20 | On Aug. 27 , 1989 , the $150,000,000 UK television satellite Marco Polo 1 became the first satellite to be commercially launched from Cape Canaveral , by the US McDonell Douglas aircraft company which built the Delta 187 rocket carrying the satellite . |
| 21 | He became the first pilot to aerial bomb Istanbul , and held the record for long distance bombing raids , many of which were in a Handley Page 0/400 . |
| 22 | In 1977 a female student at the University of Missouri became the first patient to be turned from a woman to a man by means of surgery . |
| 23 | In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin . |
| 24 | WENDY RUSSELL became the first woman to hole in one twice during a top-class event yesterday when she sank two tee-shots in the opening round of the British Women 's Seniors ' Championship at Wrexham . |
| 25 | Lady Astor became the first woman to be elected a member of parliament in 1919 , and Sir Herbert Austin , a major car manufacturer , was elected as the member of parliament for King 's Norton . |
| 26 | ( London ) , gaining a first in mental and moral science and a second in mathematics , while three years later she became the first woman to be awarded a D.Sc . |
| 27 | In a presidential election on Nov. 7 Mary Robinson , the candidate supported by the Labour Party and the Workers ' Party , became the first woman to be elected to the ( largely ceremonial ) post . |
| 28 | In the main changes , Nohemí Sanín Posada de Rubio ( PSC ) , formerly ambassador to Venezuela , became the first woman to be appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs ( replacing Luís Fernando Jaramillo Correa , who became permanent representative at the UN ) ; Jorge Ospina Sardi ( NFD ) , the former National Planning Director , became Minister of Economic Development , replacing Ernesto Samper Pizano ( PL ) , who was switched to the newly created Ministry of Foreign Trade ; Alfonso López Caballero ( PL ) , formerly ambassador to France , was given Agriculture ; Carlos Holmes Trujillo García ( PL ) , mayor of Calí , became Minister of Education ; Mauricio Vargas Linares ( PL ) , the president 's media adviser , took over at the Ministry of Communications ; and Juan Camilo Restrepo was given Mines and Energy . |
| 29 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
| 30 | On Feb. 3 , 1990 , Inicjatyw Gospodarczych ( IG Bank ) became the first bank to be offered for privatization ; and on April 9 , the selling of shares in the leading state-owned foreign trade organization , Universal , began . |