Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1959 Cripps Hall was opened and Dr Lucas became its first Warden . |
| 2 | Luce checked her first impulse , which had been to tear herself free . |
| 3 | Peter Watkins made his first feature , Privilege ( 1967 ) , for an American company , after his astonishing depiction of what would happen if a nuclear bomb fell on Kent , The War Game ( 1965 ) , had been banned by the BBC . |
| 4 | Three years later , in 1638 , Laud arranged for him to become Rector of Uppingham , in Rutland , and a chaplain to King Charles I. It was at this time that Taylor made his first marriage , to the sister of one of his Cambridge pupils . ’ |
| 5 | George Duffield got his second fright of the day when odds-on User Friendly was in trouble two out in the Yorkshire Oaks . |
| 6 | Tom Cannon rode his first winner in 1860 , and shortly afterwards came to the attention of the trainer , John Day of Danebury , whose daughter he later married . |
| 7 | Cincinnati got their first win of the season but only by 23–21 against Cleveland . |
| 8 | Ambassador : Following his time with Wilson and Callaghan , Sir Patrick got his first embassy , Luxembourg , in 1977 . |
| 9 | Roddick experienced her first taste of trading as a child while serving in the family café in Littlehampton in Sussex , which is now the centre of her worldwide retailing empire . |
| 10 | Jane Collier produced her second work , The Cry : a New Dramatic Fable , in 1754 , jointly with Sarah Fielding , who was apparently thought by Richardson and other readers to be sole or chief author . |
| 11 | BRIAN Little got his first taste of League football by watching Hartlepool in action at the Victoria Ground in the Seventies . |
| 12 | Mond made his first steps in the business that would one day help form ICI , by finding better ways to make ‘ soda ash , ’ sodium carbonate . |
| 13 | Steve Cauthen rode his 163rd winner of the season on My Lord at Leicester , where ten races attracted a crowd of less than 600 , and announced that he would not be riding again on the flat this season . |
| 14 | On 27 July Churchill made his last appearance in the House of Commons ( his first had been when my father was head boy at Thame ) , and after the summer the country accelerated into a general-election campaign . |
| 15 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |
| 16 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |
| 17 | Fired by a determination to change this order of things , Louis-Napoleon found his first outlet by participating in the risings of 1830–31 in Italy directed against Austrian rule , in themselves an echo of the July Revolution in France which had overthrown the restored Bourbon monarchy . |
| 18 | In 1960 the TBC commissioned its first audience survey . |
| 19 | By May 1979 , when Raybestos made its first attempt to dump at Barnahely , the site was blocked by residents and the compromise had apparently failed . |
| 20 | The tie looked over as a contest when Paatelainen got his 15th goal of the season eight minutes later . |
| 21 | It had seemed an impossible target until yesterday , when Lansink produced his third double clear round in the specified series . |
| 22 | Mr Singh asked his first question : ‘ Would it be next September ? ’ |
| 23 | Early in 1993 , LASMO announced its first discovery in Algeria , in the productive Ghadames Basin . |
| 24 | In the outside world the Profumo scandal and Philby 's defection rocked Macmillan 's last government ; President Kennedy was assassinated ; the United States made its first air raids on North Vietnam . |
| 25 | The track that Mr Foyt made his second home has changed over the years , but perhaps no more so than in the past year . |
| 26 | The home secretary , William Lamb , second Viscount Melbourne , and many other landowners were anxious to stifle any revival of agrarian disorder , and the men of Tolpuddle became their first victims . |
| 27 | Sgt. Deacon made his first sortie in V3978 , seeing five CR 42s , but being unable to engage these . |
| 28 | No Ha Hardy phoned me last week asking for the details of jobs we get fr , er of who to erm who to contact for it , that 's all for that needs . |
| 29 | Edward approached his third attempt to pass Responsions in a confident and relaxed mood . |
| 30 | In the first minute of the game Jackie McWilliams scored her 40th goal of the season , easily lobbing the ball over Sharon Rowe in the Victorians goal from the edge of the circle . |