Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iraq eventually announced on Aug. 28 that Kuwait had become the 19th Iraqi governorate ( liwa ) . |
| 2 | Pakistan had won the first ‘ Test ’ , at Karachi , by an innings and four runs . |
| 3 | The United States had entered the Second World War with a very limited overseas basing system , but by the close of the war had acquired a massive global basing network ‘ derived from a combination of conquests , agreements with allies , and temporary arrangements with neutrals and exile regimes that had at least the potential for post-war renewal and extension ’ . |
| 4 | Earlier , Malcolm Pyrah had won the first Olympic Talent Spotters Championship on It 's Me and , though he does not believe the small seven-year-old chestnut is potential Olympic material , he echoed the widespread praise for this new series of competitions . |
| 5 | It was February 3 : on Feb 4 , two years before , Richard Hadlee had become the first to reach this once-unthinkable total . |
| 6 | Soon Downes had reached the last carriage , in front of the diesel locomotive , staring quickly through the windows of the compartment as the few doors still remaining open were banged shut and a whistle blew , and with a slight chug and then with a mighty heave the long , north-bound train began slowly to move forward , gradually picking up a little speed , before moving out and away along the curving stretch of line that led to Banbury . |
| 7 | By August 5 the cable had been laid , and Thomson had sent the first two messages over it . |
| 8 | Gould had struck the last ornithological goldmine . |
| 9 | By 9.30am yesterday morning , an hour after 90-year-old Gene Sarazen had bisected the first fairway with an open-ceremonial drive , a stain of sweat was already running down the spine of Gary Wolstenholme 's golf shirt as he tried to make head and tail of the practice putting green . |
| 10 | It was as if Dominic had spent the last two months play-acting and tonight had decided to drop the façade — totally , with no mercy . |
| 11 | ‘ If Sir Vivien had reached the fifteenth green at the time of his abduction and Bonzo arrived in the clubhouse at ten o'clock , we can assume that Sir Vivien himself must have begun his round at , shall we say , about half past eight . ’ |
| 12 | She was not afraid of the dark , because when she was very little Maggie had had the last few scales of Fenna 's tail to suck on while she fell asleep . |
| 13 | Duroc had spent the last three months in France , dealing with the business of the Violent Tendency for Freedom . |
| 14 | It was the first time since 1921 that England had lost the first three Tests of a home rubber . |
| 15 | As children , she and her sister Ruth had reckoned the first outing to pick primroses as the true herald of spring . |
| 16 | Although in 1927 Barbusse had attended the First Congress of Proletarian Writers held in Moscow , and although he had appeared to voice support for the new policy of subordinating the literary process to the construction of socialism , his actual writing practice was completely out of step with the doctrinaire ideas of RAPP . |
| 17 | From Titron had come the first man who could withstand radiation , be it from a bomb , or in deep space . |
| 18 | Sir John Cockroft , the Director of Harwell , had won a Nobel Prize for his 1932 work where , with the prototype high energy nuclear accelerator , he and Ernest Walton had made the first artificial disintegration , or fission , of atomic nuclei . |
| 19 | Delaney had taken the first watch with Forster . |
| 20 | On the other hand , Spurs ' coaching double act of Ray Clemence and Doug Livermore opted for words of wisdom rather than wrath , after Liverpool had dominated the first half . |
| 21 | The BBC had missed the first international wicket of the season , in preference to a weather report and some local tittle-tattle . |
| 22 | Willie had completed the last of the ‘ Learning to Read ’ books . |
| 23 | However , it quickly became clear that the opera would not be ready in time for September , even though Mozart had finished the first act by 22 August . |
| 24 | When Nicola had despatched the last brick she began to yell loudly . |
| 25 | In contesting the run-off , Young had become the first black candidate to progress beyond the primary stage of the electoral process for any state-wide office within the state of Georgia . |
| 26 | Three years before Humphrys 's arrival in Kabul , King Amanullah had launched the third Afghan war against Britain , which had ended in Afghanistan 's gaining the right to control its own foreign relations . |
| 27 | Although Newcomen had produced the first practical steam-engine in the early years of the eighteenth century , it was capable only of a simple back-and-forth or up-and-down motion and therefore disappeared under-ground to be used for pumping water out of mines . |
| 28 | Norway had become the first NATO member to establish diplomatic relations with Russia , following moves by Bulgaria and Hungary . |
| 29 | Meaby 's crucial thrust came in the decisive bottom match at the 13th after he and Davies had lost the 11th and 12th and fallen back to all-square . |
| 30 | Truman had made the first move in South-East Asia at the time of the Korean War , sending financial and other aid to the French government , by then engaged in a desperate attempt to maintain their control of Indo-China . |