Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 2 | Last year The Mary Whitehouse Experience became the first TV programme to be reported to the Broadcasting Standards Council after a derogatory sketch about Going For Gold star Henry Kelly was shown . |
| 3 | As I have already made clear , the issue in that case concerned the second decision which the Secretary of State has to make , whether to release the prisoner at the end of his tariff period or to detain him in custody . |
| 4 | An attempt to include such a ban sank the last effort at constitutional reform , made by Congress in 1989 . |
| 5 | Guiding in a main force became the second phase of assault pilotage , for having reconnoitred a beach some weeks or months before a landing , these teams had the most up-to-date knowledge of local conditions . |
| 6 | In August 1980 the DUC produced the second issue of their bulletin STOP . |
| 7 | The first 16-bit generation was won hands-down by MS-DOS with Macintosh System in second place — and winning a moral victory by setting the agenda for what should have been the 32-bit generation but in effect became the second 16-bit generation , which seems to have been won by Microsoft Windows , even though for the majority , MS-DOS is all most people want or use . |
| 8 | As the conflict between Milosevic and the FRY intensified [ see below ] , the Serbian delegation boycotted the first meeting in Zagreb on Oct. 12 of the committee set up under the Sept. 30 agreement to normalize relations between Croatia and the FRY . |
| 9 | In 1970 , the Library Association produced the first set of specific standards for school libraries that Great Britain had ever had , embodying the library 's new name , and including an analysis of implications for finance , planning , staffing and service which was immediately recognized as being incomplete . |
| 10 | In November 1990 , a man convicted of multiple rape and murder became the first person in Tunisia to be executed since the President came to power in 1987 . |
| 11 | There were no indications that the original hypothesis was incorrect ( ie that the information requirements of an organisation could be derived by the progressive decomposition of a primary task model ) , and the study entered the next phase of deciding how the information base could be used in practice . |
| 12 | Further rioting occurred the next day when Douglas Hurd , the Home Secretary , visited the area . |
| 13 | And this morning the musician caught the first Concorde flight back to the US to be with his pregnant wife . |
| 14 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |
| 15 | And when it daylight came the next day next morning you could hardly believe it you could hardly see Rousay for the foam that the gale kick up like a thick fog . |
| 16 | The programme dominated the next week and half , to the exclusion of almost everything else including common sense . |
| 17 | But Kevin Keegan 's team are still 12 points in front and their good-looking football dominated the first half and the last 20 minutes . |
| 18 | In 1931 the Polytechnic Touring Association organized the first air charter holiday , flying twenty-four passengers from Croydon , south of London , in a four-engined Heracles . |
| 19 | At about 2.15 , someone from the Cardiff side threw the first stone , then the bricks started flying : if they could n't get at each other on land , then they could always fight a missile war and there was plenty of ammo flying around : the workmen who put the fence in had not swept up the chunks of broken concrete around the supports . |
| 20 | The President declared the 64th AGM open and the National General Secretary read the notice convening the meeting . |
| 21 | As the jeep turned the last curve at the foot of the slope the Brigadier braked and pointed . |
| 22 | ‘ It was the best century I have ever played , ’ said Crowe as his side finished the third day on 277-6 -still 15 short of avoiding an innings defeat . |
| 23 | I stopped until an urgent , ‘ Go on , lass , go on , you 're doin' fine , ’ from the organist prompted the next line . |
| 24 | As police from the West Mercia force watched the last hippies leave the Common , their Chief Constable was declaring the whole operation a success . |
| 25 | A customer returns a skirt because the zip broke the first time she wore it . |
| 26 | Whether the startling but short-lived explosion of punk rock represented the first sign of a new situational fracture ( new production methods ; ‘ outrageous ’ music ; independent operations ) , or the last twitch of the moment of ‘ pop culture ’ ( a rerun of rock 'n' roll do-it-yourself amateurism ) , or a less organic , conjunctural tremor ( like hip hop , ‘ charity rock ’ , Bruce Springsteen , Billy Bragg and many more ) is difficult to say . |
| 27 | The Alt Park club reached the fifth round last season before bowing out to Sudbury Town , and Max Thompson 's men will feel they can open this season 's Wembley trail with a win against an Arnold side in the Supreme Division of the Central Midlands League . |
| 28 | Captain Bligh of the Bounty took the first apples to Australia ; Jan van Riebeeck , the founder of Cape Settlement , took them to South Africa and the Pilgrim Fathers who boarded the Mayflower carried them to America . |
| 29 | Dundalk clinched the double with victory over Derry in the 1988 FAI Cup Final and the following season the Brandywell club took the first step towards a unique treble with a stunning 4–0 win in the League Cup final at Oriel Park . |
| 30 | And the barely legible postmark removed the last shred of doubt about who had sent it . |