Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 61 | After their mauling of the Seasiders , Glenavon picked up £1 , from sponsors TNT for becoming the first side to score goals in the competition , with Trevor McMullan knocking in the sixth with two minutes left on the clock at Clandeboye . |
| 62 | Finally , if Imran Khan and Javed Miandad appear in the fifth tournament they will be the only players to have participated in all five World Cup tournaments . |
| 63 | Famed for his grace and artistry , Jack played in the first Wembley Cup final in 1923 and again three years later . |
| 64 | He was ruled to have brought down Rob Jones and Marsh blasted in the 77th minute penalty . |
| 65 | Much is expected of him by India 's neighbours , whose relations with New Delhi deteriorated in the last two years of Rajiv Gandhi 's government . |
| 66 | Slack line-out play presented Guisborough flanker Chris Pern with a try which Paul McLuskey converted , but Redcar replied in the 16th minute through flanker Graeme Evans . |
| 67 | Manchester City 's Quinn netted in the eleventh minute in their match away to Port Vale , but the home side drew level with ace marksman Beckford after thirty six minutes . |
| 68 | As a snub to the wealthy Philadelphia establishment , just before his death in a fatal car crash in 1951 , Albert C. Barnes willed the power to name four out of five trustees of this foundation to Lincoln University , a small , predominantly black college in rural Pennsylvania established in the mid-nineteenth century to educate former slaves . |
| 69 | Meanwhile InterSpray struggled in the second leg , Rio to Hobart , to maintain the form that earned her second place in the first stage . |
| 70 | Iro squandered a couple of chances close to the line at the start of the second half , but held on to Clark 's pass to make room for Edwards to score in the 50th minute , Phil Bancroft adding a touchline goal off the post . |
| 71 | Paul Proctor emerged in the last four minutes to give Peter Henerty 's men a priceless win in Lancashire . |
| 72 | Apart from Jason Fogerty , Giants ' tallest players offered little threat inside , while playmaker Jerry Johnson spluttered in the first half . |
| 73 | After three years of wrangling , the matter was dropped , though Miller does in the eighth edition of the Dictionary admit that he made a mistake in former publications . |
| 74 | Richard Rolle wrote in the fourteenth century of spiritual direction as ‘ full merry counsel with his ghostly Father ’ . |
| 75 | Bogomilism in Bosnia revived in the fourteenth century during the reigns of the Kotromanić rulers , Stephen II and his son , Tvrtko , who was crowned King of ‘ Serbia , Bosnia , the Primorje and the western lands ’ in 1377 . |
| 76 | John Dickson Carr , stalwart of the Golden Age of the detective story , set some dozen of his books in past times , with particularly to be recommended Devil in Velvet , set in the Regency period , and Bride of Newgate set in the seventeenth century . |
| 77 | Europe experienced in the first half of the twentieth century a simultaneous cultural , spiritual and political breakdown . |
| 78 | The only attempt to revive the Slav kingdom of Samo , which Ottokar of Bohemia made in the thirteenth century , was decisively crushed by the Holy Roman Emperor at the battle of Marchfeld ( 1278 ) . |
| 79 | But Teddy Sheringham levelled in the second half when he converted a Gary Mabbutt flick-on . |
| 80 | The efficiency gains that RBS wrought in the first few months of Project Columbus reflect how much fat it was carrying . |
| 81 | The turning point for Hunt came in the last race of the first half of the season when Lauda retired from the French Grand Prix with a rear mechanical fault and Hunt took full advantage by winning . |
| 82 | The account of the Roman conquest of Britain by the Roman writer Tacitus , is certainly more " primary " than Collingwood 's Roman Britain written in the twentieth century , yet Tacitus was describing events in which he himself had not participated , though his father-in-law , and one of his key " sources " , was the General , Agricola , who had played a leading role in the campaigns . |
| 83 | Russel played in the last five minutes of the game which was part of a visit by crew members from the minesweeper to the village near Darlington which gave the vessel its name . |
| 84 | Villa 's comeback powers were revealed when Cyrille Regis equalised in the 34th minute after Roy Keane had given Forest a ninth minute lead . |
| 85 | Master Mansell INDYCAR points leader Nigel Mansell turned in the second fastest time today in the first day of qualifying for tomorrow 's Detroit Grand Prix . |
| 86 | He estimates he can handle ten US concerns in the next five years and is particularly interested in partnering with leading firms , ready to ship beta-tested product , in client/server software , software tools for business applications , X-terminal and workstation software , wireless networks and software for networking and telecommunications . |
| 87 | The first British H-bomb test had been carried out in May that year and seven further tests at Christmas Island in the Pacific followed in the next year . |
| 88 | The cows are not as good for milk as the Aubrac or Salers : there was crossing with Durham Shorthorns in the eighteenth century to help milk yields from an essentially draught-and-meat animal but this was discarded when it was decided to concentrate on beef from the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 89 | It is historically untrue to say that religious decline in Europe began in the twentieth century : the majority of working people in the first one hundred years of industrialism were not regular churchgoers ( though the new middle classes were ) . |
| 90 | Because we must remember that Iraq has already had an eight years war and they 're used to a war , they used to withstanding a war and it was the only reason that Britain survived in the last world war because it could withstand attack , and wait and wait until they were ready to counter attack . |