Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he could have been back in the locker room even quicker had he served out for the match when he led 5–2 in the second set . |
| 2 | The island of Porto Santo has one of the last unspoilt beaches in Europe where , for eight kilometres , you can walk along a white sandy beach washed by the Atlantic Ocean and bordered by sand dunes . |
| 3 | His name was Dave Brown and he eventually went on to establish one of the first clubs in the country to be licensed as an openly gay establishment . |
| 4 | Even so there is enough in these spaces and in the ‘ Eating Room ’ and the Drawing Room , the one with its amazing Chinoiserie woodwork , the other with its airy flight of hoho birds and pheasants , to provide one of the 18th century 's most satisfying interior sequences , one where discipline and imagination are almost perfectly balanced . |
| 5 | Oxford have now won 16 of the last 17 races , and have taken the Beefeater Gin Trophy for the sixth year running . |
| 6 | They 've won 16 of the last 17 races and victory this year will pull them level with Cambridge on 69 wins apiece . |
| 7 | Garden contains one of the first rockeries in Britain , which houses the earliest garden gnomes in England . |
| 8 | Piaget 's work is important because it provided one of the first developmental accounts of the emergence of logical thought . |
| 9 | Yeah , he 's booked one of the thirteenth . |
| 10 | In the autumn of 1982 John was transferred from Coningsby to become Commanding Officer at Wildenrath in West Germany , and so the Corsair was moved from Coningsby to Duxford , becoming one of the first privately-owned warbirds to be based there . |
| 11 | In the SAS he undoubtedly learned rather more than that , including the survival skills which he has had to draw on so often in expeditions which have not always gone according to plan.He has been a full-time explorer since he was 25 and ‘ like everybody else , in every career , you do n't retire until you have to , ’ he says.His CV reads like a non-stop Boys Own adventure — shooting up the White Nile in a hovercraft , parachuting on to the Jostedalsbre Glacier and negotiating more than 4,000 miles of Canadian and Alaskan rivers.Between 1979 and 1982 , he circumnavigated the world on the Transglobe Expedition , becoming one of the first men ever to reach both the North and South Poles overland . |
| 12 | Approval was granted upon inspection on the 19th March 1888 and the line continued to operate until 1953 ; by that time it was owned by the National Coal Board , thus becoming one of the first nationalised railways . |
| 13 | A close working relationship with John Wilkinson , the club chairman , developed over the last five years , and Ashcroft 's position was considered one of the First Division 's safest . |
| 14 | In contrast to the comments ( above ) on pavements with four pairs of interlaced squares , this mosaic can be considered one of the first examples of a distinctive saltire arrangement : an arrangement which has pelta-urns ( with bases facing away from the central roundel ) on each arm . |
| 15 | MAOIST ‘ Shining Path ’ guerrillas attacked a hamlet in the central Peruvian jungle , killing eight people and wounding seven in the second raid in the zone in less than a month , Panamericana Television said . |
| 16 | But Harris , who made 47 in the first innings and Puddle who promoted himself in the batting order had other ideas . |
| 17 | Gooch and Pringle then added 113 for the seventh wicket and Neil Foster gave good support to remove all fears of an Essex follow-on . |
| 18 | He dominated the tie-break 7–2 and after allowing seventh-seeded Chang to hold his first service game of the third set , Sampras went on an amazing burst , running off 11 games in a row to lead 5–0 in the fourth before Chang won another game . |
| 19 | Shoaib , whose previous highest Test score was the 163 he notched up against New Zealand at Wellington earlier this year , added 134 for the fifth wicket with his captain , Imran Khan . |
| 20 | It was scant reward for Andrew and Grant Flower who added 192 for the fourth wicket . |
| 21 | The pair added 106 for the fourth wicket with Arthurton crafting a watchful 71 and Lara reaching 52 . |
| 22 | Ashok Patel ( 48 ) and David Borthwick ( 50 ) added 77 for the third wicket . |
| 23 | Younis and Wasim Akram added 46 for the ninth wicket , taking Pakistan to victory from the depths of 95 for 8 |
| 24 | They charge 4 for the first hour and 3 for the next . |
| 25 | ‘ Needless to say , there were plenty of takers when I offered a small wager — but a few worried expressions when I scored five in the first seven games ! |
| 26 | Percivall , in his 1834 introductory lecture , says one of the first operations performed by Vial at the College was the excision of two redundant or accessory feet which grew from the fetlocks of the forelegs of a foal . |
| 27 | I said well I 've seen five in the last bloody couple months . |
| 28 | He lost the first frame quite easily but when Wattana had made 42 in the second , the 23-year-old Thai tried an ambitious plant which only let in Hendry for a clearance of 96 . |
| 29 | The dam would flood one of the last remaining strongholds of the European lynx and the Spanish imperial eagle , and disrupt the habitat of black storks and wintering cranes . |
| 30 | Although Brown took two more wickets to make it 121 for seven , Rennie and chunky left-hander Steve Peall added 87 for the eighth wicket , with Peall successfully chancing his arm against the luckless Phil Berry . |