Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the [num ord] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this morning the musician caught the first Concorde flight back to the US to be with his pregnant wife . |
| 2 | After being cook on the last Whitbread she announced her intention to enter the next Whitbread in her own yacht , with an all women crew . |
| 3 | En route to Vancouver to start a series of Alaska cruises , Crown Princess became the third Princess Cruises ship to hold the record , paying USS 141,344.97 . |
| 4 | In 1946 the feast sing committee promoted the first Holmfirth musical competitions . |
| 5 | When the 1981 Companies Act implemented the Fourth EC Company Law Directive , it was not generally recognised how the nature of financial reporting would be affected . |
| 6 | It helped , albeit in an unpleasant way , in her campaign to become the next Mrs Jack Butler . |
| 7 | My story concerns the last England cricket tour of South Africa in 1964–65 , when during the first morning of the Durban Test the pitch was so utterly dead that Peter Pollock , at full pace , could hardly get the ball bail-high and England 's batsmen were obviously headed for a huge total . |
| 8 | At its December meeting the SCOTVEC Board approved the first SVQ : The Preliminary Certificate in Agriculture , which comprised a group of National Certificate Modules . |
| 9 | The group meets the first Sat in the month . |
| 10 | A sudden noise from the cupboard followed by a distinct clucking distracted the next Lady Deverill 's attention . |
| 11 | But Squadron Leader , Bob Illett took time out of his hectic schedule to become the first RAF man to meet the refugees his detachment is helping . |
| 12 | Her father had been an equerry to the Queen and to King George VI before that ; and before her grandfather died in 1975 and her father became the Eighth Earl Spencer and moved to Althorp , the family had lived in a house on the Sandringham Estate . |
| 13 | In 1988 , the young Vanbrugh Quartet won the fourth London International String Quartet Competition . |
| 14 | The seventy-ninth Fighter Squadron sent the first F-one-eleven jets into combat in the Gulf . |
| 15 | Our Invention consists of an improvement on the Invention relating to lifts for transferring barges and other vessels from one level to another on canals and other waterways which forms the subject of a previous application for Letters Patent dated the 22nd April 1896 , No. 8501 . |
| 16 | Your letter dated the 19th May to Wales Wildlife and Countryside Link has been passed on to me in my capacity as Vice Chair of the Link , but more relevantly perhaps as Director of CPRW . |
| 17 | In 1977 , an improved version of the same program won the 84th Minnesota Open against a field whose strength was just under the Master level . |
| 18 | The provision of a Frontier Station at Kensington Olympia , and the decision to site the second London terminal at King 's Cross are also of benefit . |
| 19 | The absence of the usually unfailing sun-wind made the next Saturday oppressively hot . |
| 20 | During his time with the company started the first CPM 7000 interswitch press in the country and Preston workmates were not sure whether it was a splash of fat or a tear on 's cheek when it had to be replaced by the new Palladin 1600 . |
| 21 | This neolithic , Fred Flintstone-like management opportunity is as follows : — For the year ended the 31st March 1992 BC. , sorry , little error 31st March 1992 AD. , non-performing loans in the UK were £422m . |
| 22 | There my father wore the first pair of plus-fours and my mother had the first Eton crop ( an accident of her father 's home hairdressing ) . |
| 23 | On Feb. 25 the South Korean government announced that the authorization granted to the Daewoo conglomerate to become the first South Korean group to invest directly in the North had been suspended . |