Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] the [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the following two months came the first reports of Baghdad 's retaliation at the frontier town of Halabjah , in PUK territory , where aircraft were said to have dropped bombs containing poison gas . |
| 2 | Small flocks coming in from all directions joined the first arrivals until many thousands were stretched out in long parallel black lines . |
| 3 | Modern TRANSPORT — workers built the first railways through the ALPS in the 1800's tourism increased due to the rapid improvement in transport . |
| 4 | Although it was almost a century before the Ottomans eradicated the last traces of the medieval Serbian empire by taking the Serbian fortress of Smederovo on the Danube in 1459 , the battle of Kosovo sounded the death knell for independent Serbia . |
| 5 | Two generals and 19 other officers became the first soldiers to be brought to trial in connection with the December 1989 coup attempt , when they appeared before a seven-member military court on May 8 on charges of mutiny and murder . |
| 6 | The earliest farmers fashioned the first sickles out of pieces of sharp flint fixed in a curved bone or piece of wood . |
| 7 | In 386 , Priscillian and at least five of his disciples became the first heretics to be executed . |
| 8 | As the Dwarfs approached the first ranks of Night Goblins a massive whoop went up amongst the greenskins , and from out of their formation charged Night Goblin Fanatics whirling balls and chains . |
| 9 | Two WGEC pipefitting apprentices became the first apprentices to go offshore . |
| 10 | REACTION was muted in Dublin yesterday when the Sunday Times published the first extracts from Forbidden Fruit , the book detailing Annie Murphy 's affair with the then Bishop of Kerry , Dr Eamon Casey . |
| 11 | The Romans built the first quays on the river whose mouth is opposite those of the Rhine and the Maas ; from these quays ships could penetrate deep into Europe . |