Example sentences of "[noun prp] took the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vanne took the first boat trip across Lake Tanganyika to Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve with Jane in 1960 , when the authorities refused to give a 20-year-old girl permission to set up camp on her own . |
| 2 | Macedonia , which in January took the first steps towards independence [ see p. 38704 ] , faced hostility from Greece which felt that its name implied a territorial claim on the northern Greek province of Macedonia . |
| 3 | Gloucestershire trainer Chris Broad saddled the first winner … and Wantage jockey Graham McCourt took the second race … |
| 4 | Brave Piper took the seventh round on my card , while drawing three others , and impressed English judge Mickey Vann to make him a round up going into the climatic 11th , which made a joke of Piper 's manager Frank Warren having objected to Vann as a judge . |
| 5 | Matilda took the second slice and started eating it slowly . |
| 6 | The French inventor Louis Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon in 1839 or slightly earlier , and since then literally thousands of detailed pictures have been acquired , including those transmitted back-to Earth by the Moon-probes of the late 1950s and the 1960s . |
| 7 | Edberg had nothing to offer as Becker took the second set triumphantly in just 27 minutes to a great roar from the delirious crowd . |
| 8 | In the match of the tournament , Drake took the first set 6–3 only to see his advantage melt away as Alger powered his way back into the reckoning with a blistering 6–1 win in the second . |
| 9 | Fedorov took the first blow on the arm . |
| 10 | Bob took the first contact sheet from the developing fluid and hung it up . |
| 11 | Zara Wolseley took the first set of her Under-18 match with Jo Ward 6-4 but at the end of a hard encounter saw Ward claim the next two sets 6-3 6-2 for victory . |
| 12 | In 1983 Dr Sven Kullander took the first steps by restricting the genus to South American species ; unfortunately until such time as further revisions are made this leaves the rest of the species in a sort of ‘ taxonomic limbo ’ . |
| 13 | Gold medallist Sally Gunnell took the last leg as our 4 x 400 metres women qualified for their final . |
| 14 | Without speaking , Massingham took the next turning to the left and drove toward– it down a narrow road bordered on each side by a terrace of small houses . |