Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman screamed , the man went for the bedroom door and met the first FBI man on the landing . |
| 2 | The following " rejectionist " groups boycotted the 19th PNC session : Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command ( PFLP — GC — Ahmed Jabril l . ) ; |
| 3 | For years , Karl Dersch has flown the Third Reich emblem at his Munich home . |
| 4 | Dessie was used to promote the first Sunday meeting at Doncaster last month along with Red Rum . |
| 5 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 6 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 7 | Cyprus and Malta did so in July 1990 [ see p. 37625 ] , while Sweden in July 1991 became the second EFTA country ( after Austria ) to apply ; an essentially positive opinion on Austria 's application was issued , also in July , by the Commission [ see p. 38353 ] . |
| 8 | Ian Butterworth yesterday became the second Norwich player , after Gunn , to be punished by the club for newspaper comments about the brawl . |
| 9 | In so doing he became the first US President since Harry S. Truman to veto a major spending bill . |
| 10 | Barry Abrook became the first UK skater to spin a 540 and make it . |
| 11 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 12 | N.A. Mallender became the first England bowler to take five wickets in an innings on Test debut since N.G.B. Cook ( v NZ , Lord 's , 1983 ) . |
| 13 | Once again , the backbone of the innings came from Lamb and Botham , and just before the close on the first day Lamb became the first England batsman since Barrington in 1960 to score centuries in consecutive Test innings against West Indies . |
| 14 | In 1893 , Drewy Stoddart became the first Middlesex batsman to score a century in each innings of a county match — carrying his bat for 195 not out ( out of 327 ) and 124 against Nottinghamshire at Lord 's . |
| 15 | At the UK 's IBM ‘ 93 Show in Birmingham last week , IBM UK Ltd became the first IBM company in Europe to publish an Open Options Catalogue of IBM and third party products available through mail order . |
| 16 | He made his name as mayor of West Berlin in 1957-66 , was Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor from 1966 to 1969 , and became the first SPD Chancellor in 1969 [ see p. 23618 ] . |
| 17 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |
| 18 | In 1986 who became the first Gloucestershire player since 1966 to play for England ? ( 6 ) 4 . |
| 19 | On Aug. 13 Belgium became the fourth EC country to house Cuban citizens in its Embassy ( Italy and Switzerland having temporarily sheltered seven ) . |
| 20 | That came after Liverpool 's frustration bubbled to the surface when Mike Marsh became the third Anfield star to receive a red card in four European Cup Winners Cup matches this season . |
| 21 | Mike Marsh became the third Anfield star to be shown the red card in successive European Cup Winners ' Cup matches when he was sent off in the closing stages of the defeat against Spartak Moscow on Wednesday . |
| 22 | In 1920 Meccano Ltd. produced the first Hornby model trains , replicas of British trains with authentic colours and lettering used by the railway companies of the time . |
| 23 | WITH a triumphant twang of the zither , the City University of London has filled the first Joe Loss Research Fellowship in Jewish Music . |
| 24 | Dr A.J. Watson , former chairman , has offered to arrange the next Burns Supper . |
| 25 | EDINBURGH District Council 's Construction Skills Training programme has won the first UK award for the use of new technology in training . |
| 26 | Wavell Wakefield not only organised , selected and captained the first RAF side to win the Inter Service tournament but also led England during the golden era of the 1920s . |
| 27 | It publicly demonstrated the first NT/SMP version running on a 16-processor Symmetry back in August to help Microsoft allay reports that NT 's SMP capabilities are severely limited and would require heavy re-architecting . |
| 28 | Sun has followed ICL Plc in adopting Boulder , Colorado-based Exabyte Corp 's 5Gb EXB-8500 Cartridge Tape Subsystem , becoming the first US firm to do so . |
| 29 | On Nov. 25 Norway , which had narrowly rejected EC membership in a referendum in 1972 [ see pp. 25525-26 ] , re-applied for EC membership , becoming the fifth EFTA country to apply , following Austria in July 1989 [ see pp. 36822 ; 38353 ] , Sweden in July 1991 [ see pp. 38353 ; 39064 ] , Finland in March 1992 [ see above ] and Switzerland in May 1992 [ see p. 38930 ] . |
| 30 | And this morning the musician caught the first Concorde flight back to the US to be with his pregnant wife . |