Example sentences of "[noun prp] he [verb] the [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | In 1914 at Sandwich he reached the 2nd round and later he became Secretary at St George 's Hill . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As Superintendent in Bolton he produced the first issue of The Deaf Quarterly News as a local news-sheet of four pages . |
| 12 | 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 . |