Example sentences of "[noun prp] he [vb past] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody has a few thousand to go before he can ever catch Carson … that ca n't be done in jump racing of course … but the new champion is off to a flying start to the new season … two winners on saturday he won the first at Newton Abbot this afternoon |
| 2 | For Bede he became the fifth overlord of all the Anglo-Saxons south of the Humber ( HE II , 5 ) . |
| 3 | On 6 January he attended the first of the sessions of the high court of justice preparatory to the trial , and then attended most sittings of the court . |
| 4 | With Walter Crane [ q.v. ] and W. A. S. Benson he organized the first arts and crafts exhibition in Crane Street in 1888 . |
| 5 | In October he passed the first part of the examination for ordination , and afterwards could not understand how he passed . |
| 6 | He was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery towards the end of World War I. He obtained a third class in literae humaniores at Oxford in 1921 but a pass with distinction in the LLB at Edinburgh in 1924 . |
| 7 | In September he joined the 11th Service battalion of the Hampshire Regiment and served on the western front throughout the war , being awarded the MC . |
| 8 | In 1914 at Sandwich he reached the 2nd round and later he became Secretary at St George 's Hill . |
| 9 | Last March he suffered a second agonising defeat in the Gold Cup when Cool Ground proved just too good , and he then lost his French crown when the ground at Auteuil for this July 's Grand Steeplechase came up unsuitably soft and he could only struggle round in eighth place . |
| 10 | At his works in London he built the first carriage used on the L & B line and also the carriages for the Eastern Counties , the London and Brighton , the London & South-Eastern , the London South-Western , the Blackwall Railways . |
| 11 | In April he told the fifth session of the central commission that ‘ the consent of the Bishops will not be difficult to obtain and their approval will be unanimous ’ ( Rouquette , 1968 , p. 114 ) . |
| 12 | At Sydney in 1988 against New South Wales he became the twenty-second batsman and the first West Indian to score a century of centuries . |
| 13 | As Superintendent in Bolton he produced the first issue of The Deaf Quarterly News as a local news-sheet of four pages . |
| 14 | Flying from a landing ground at Smoogro he made the first ever landing on the deck of a ship at sea on August 2 , 1917 . |