Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [vb past] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should of all saw the last Synod papers received this . |
| 2 | As you can imagine there were a lot of champagne bottles opened that night , but perhaps the most pleasurable glass of all came the next morning from the bottle in Peter Wycherley 's office at the headquarters of Dunlop Slazenger who are my main sponsors . |
| 3 | The presidential election of 1952 saw the first large-scale hiring of skilled advertising men to do the politicians ' persuading for them . |
| 4 | The first and only veterinary surgeon appointed to the army in 1796 joined the 11th Light Dragoons on 25 June that year as a warrant officer , but was commissioned the following year . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He turned down offers of partnership with the Peels and Arkwrights , and in 1790 erected the first steam-powered mill in Stockport , during a boom period . |
| 7 | When Philip in 346 settled the Third Sacred War , he was ( personally ; not the Macedonians as a race ) admitted to the Delphic Amphictyony , the body which managed the prestige sanctuary at Delphi ; and so he gained admission to the Greek fraternity . |
| 8 | He was Assistant Head of Religious Broadcasting at the BBC between 1949 and 1956 , and in 1963 became the first Executive Director of the World Association for Christian Broadcasting ( WACB ) , WACC 's predecessor . |
| 9 | The Pecora hearings in the US Congress in 1933–34 produced the first real condemnation of insider dealing . |
| 10 | In 1904 came the first car , and in 1920 Rover hit the headlines when its Light Six saloon raced the Blue Train Continental Express 750 miles across France — and reached Calais 20 minutes ahead of the train . |
| 11 | Turkish fortunes began to decline after the raising of the second siege of Vienna ( 1683 ) , and the Treaty of Karlovci ( Carlowitz ) in 1699 recorded the first major Ottoman defeat and the beginning of the slow retreat of the Turks from Europe . |
| 12 | Campbell was totally influenced by the great Italian architect Palladio and in 1715 published the first volume of Vitruvius Britannicus . |
| 13 | Arthur Eddy , an American critic who in 1914 produced the first book in English on Cubism , Cubists and Post-Impressionism , wrote that ‘ the comparison that Picabia is fondest of making is that of absolute music ’ . |
| 14 | Thomas Telford was as great a canal builder as he was road maker , and in 1818 became the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers . |
| 15 | Resistance to his rule increased inside South Vietnam ; and in 1958 came the first ominous trickle of men and weapons from North Vietnam . |
| 16 | , Alexander William Charles Oliphant , Baron Murray of Elibank ( 1870–1920 ) , politician and company director , was born in Folkestone 12 April 1870 , the eldest son in the family of four sons and five daughters of Montolieu Fox Oliphant Murray , later tenth Baron Elibank ( peerage of Scotland ) , who in 1911 became the first Viscount Elibank ( UK peerage ) , and his wife Blanche Alice , daughter of Edward John Scott of Southsea , Hampshire . |
| 17 | ‘ But in 1973 came the first major oil shock . |
| 18 | Several members of the Nemanjić dynasty founded monasteries , some became monks , and the pious St Sava , son of Stephen Nemanja , in 1219 became the first archbishop of an autocephalous church , freed from the jurisdiction of the Greek-led archbishopric of Ohrid . |
| 19 | In the case of the Iranians , early in 1982 came the first references to the phenomena of attrition and the ‘ human wave ’ . |
| 20 | Between 1210 and 1215 John of Wales made a new compilation out of Gilbert and Alan 's work ( which came , therefore , to be called the Compilatio Secunda , though in fact it followed the Compilatio Tertia ) and in 1216 came the last private collection of the reign , the Compilatio Quarta of John the Teuton . |
| 21 | In 1653 came the first of three books of Ayres and Dialogues by Henry Lawes ; the others followed in 1655 and 1658 , and beside them Playford 's Breefe Introduction to the Skill of Musick for Song and Viol ( 1654 ) and instrumental music . |
| 22 | In 1902 he was transferred to Dehra Dun , and in 1905 became the first imperial mycologist at the new agricultural research station at Pusa . |
| 23 | His son George [ q.v. ] was secretary to David Hartley MP and at twenty-eight became the first British resident minister in Washington , USA ( 1791–5 ) , and was later under-secretary for foreign affairs . |
| 24 | At seven came the first allied setback . |