Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] the [num ord] [noun prp] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Queen Elizabeth II paid an official nine-day visit to the USA starting on May 14 , and became the first United Kingdom sovereign to address the US Congress , meeting in joint session on May 16 . |
2 | He made his name as mayor of West Berlin in 1957-66 , was Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor from 1966 to 1969 , and became the first SPD Chancellor in 1969 [ see p. 23618 ] . |
3 | The woman screamed , the man went for the bedroom door and met the first FBI man on the landing . |
4 | Donald Healey , who designed and built the first Healeys in the 1940s , also worked on the new design details . |
5 | If the turn takes the aircraft off the QDM , then re-centre the needle with the OBS , and fly the second QDM. 4 . |
6 | Wavell Wakefield not only organised , selected and captained the first RAF side to win the Inter Service tournament but also led England during the golden era of the 1920s . |
7 | After travelling extensively at home ( and becoming the first Romanov to see Siberia ) , in 1838 and 1839 he toured Europe . |
8 | WHAT do you do with an MP who says Hitler was ‘ chosen by providence ’ and calls the Third Reich ‘ glorious times ’ ? |
9 | These last three territories lay south of the Sava-Danube line and represented the first Habsburg advance across that symbolic divide since the catastrophe of Mohács in 1526 . |
10 | After that maryed to William Lambarde , Gent the 28th July 1583 and died the 1st Sept. 1587 , leaving on lyve by William Dalyson , Sylvestre , a daughter and Maximillian a son ; and by William Lambarde , Multon , a son , Margaret a daughter and Gore and Fane sonnes and twins " . |
11 | Sinn Fein MP 's met in Dublin and formed the First Dail in January 1919 . |
12 | Her independence and organizing ability had been displayed early when she joined the Girl Scouts in 1909 and formed the first Bournemouth troop of guides . |
13 | His name too , with all its starkness and its distinctly masculine aura , fitted him exactly — though this man possessed none of the innocence and wonder the first Adam must have had in his Garden of Eden . |
14 | Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky and becomes the first US chess champion : posing the question , Where is Reykjavik ? |