Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this he struck the first blow , and broke it in striking . ’ |
| 2 | It came from many quarters , both domestic and foreign , for his megalomaniac , as it was often characterized , insistence on Iran 's ‘ imperial vocation ’ of which in 1972 he celebrated the 2,500th birthday . |
| 3 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 4 | Holroyd Smith was indeed keen to demonstrate the relative success of his new traction system : on June 29th he operated the first test runs in Princess Street , using one of the experimental Manchester cars . |
| 5 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |
| 6 | So share it out between three you get a third . |
| 7 | In 1904 they opened the first Poor Law farm colony , in Essex , to provide work training for the unemployed . |
| 8 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 9 | He was already feeling ill by Christmas , but nevertheless he was writing extraordinarily rapidly and by 1 January 1941 he sent a first draft of the poem , tentatively entitled " Dry Salvages " , to John Hayward . |
| 10 | In 1859 he built the first of his 2–2–2 type express locomotives , two of which took part in the railway ‘ race ’ between east- and west-coast companies from London to Edinburgh in 1888 , and in 1863 he developed the 2–4–0 type for use over more heavily graded routes . |
| 11 | In 1870 he gave the first authentic account of amoebae from the human intestine . |
| 12 | Cooke 's interest in fungi began while he was teaching , and in 1862 he published the first popular book on toadstools , A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi . |
| 13 | Linda Cullen asserts that her first book will not be her last , good I hope the next one is on the way . |
| 14 | you see I go on fruit and that for a day and all I do the next day is get a terrible cramp in the stomach |
| 15 | It was just really terrible I mean the first I was just scared stiff that I never could n't enjoy the dance on Sanday I was that scared of the thought coming back . |
| 16 | But as the tenth century was turning into the eleventh we have the first signs of a new outlook . |
| 17 | Almost as a throw-away they added a fifth , the outward sprawl characteristic of outer London . |
| 18 | In 1922 it planned the first of a series of national hunger marches which were to become the NUWCM 's principal contribution to the inter-war years . |
| 19 | In 1981 he launched the first of a series of closely watched consumer surveys . |
| 20 | In 1928 she became the first person ever to swim the Straits of Gibraltar ( in 12 hrs. 50 min. ) , braving the perils of whirlpools , currents , and sharks . |
| 21 | In 1928 she published the first general history of the women 's suffrage movement , The Cause , and in 1931 Millicent Garrett Fawcett . |
| 22 | By 8.00 I felt the first slight warning tickle . |
| 23 | In the winter of 1970 I attended the second national conference of the Women 's Liberation Movement , held in a grim out-of-season holiday camp at Skegness . |
| 24 | First you require a second enlarger , an old anything with a lens , together with something that will give you a reasonably diffused light . |
| 25 | First you require a second enlarger , an old anything with a lens , together with something that will give you reasonably diffuse light . |
| 26 | Three shared out between twelve you get a fourth . |
| 27 | In 1887 she became the first and only woman on the school board at Rotherham . |
| 28 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 29 | In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin . |
| 30 | On line five it finds the third colour , white and on line seven the fourth colour , black . |