Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 2 | As I say , if you by the time you get home and then you got to exercise them erm and then you 've got to get back and feed them and then feed yourself and keep warm and think of you know , what you got to wear the next day the time 's gone ! |
| 3 | Beset by mounting criticism at home , and abroad , over the way the issue had been handled , the Japanese government agreed to defer the fifth group of demands and in May 1915 delivered the remainder in the form of an ultimatum . |
| 4 | One of Stephanie close colleagues has been under gun guard , police guard for a week following death threats on the alleged kidnapper , as the net closed on him he phoned estate agent Jane the girl who helped prepare the second artist impression , Jane had met him face to face when he called at the office in Great Bar Birmingham days before the kidnap to collect details on several houses for sale , her blood ran cold when she picked up the phone on Wednesday February the twelfth to hear his voice again |
| 5 | The actions taken by both leaders and followers have , at each turn of the wheel of fortune , helped to create the next round of change . |
| 6 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 7 | She held the envelope to the light , squinting at it with one eye while she tried to read the first paragraph . |
| 8 | As Bernice tried to read the next line , Ell moved forward and stamped on the creature . |
| 9 | ( If you tried to swap the last column of a table without doing so you would jumble up your text ) |
| 10 | Both men promised to return the next day . |
| 11 | He said he was afraid the delay over the book had lost him the opportunity of reaching the city in time to take part in any meaningful work , and promised to join the next summer 's dig in June . ’ |
| 12 | Sweden tried to take the first initiative only two days after the ending of the Maudling negotiations , inviting other states to send representatives to Stockholm to discuss how their trade policies might be better coordinated . |
| 13 | The acoustic front-end failed to detect the first vowel . |
| 14 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 16 | Was it because she 'd broken the seventh commandment ? |
| 17 | There was little chance of his being hit , but he slipped deliberately , pitching forward , striking the ground with his shoulder and rolling fast for the ravine where he 'd hidden the first gun . |
| 18 | Leith wondered , as she drove to work the next morning , why she had bothered getting the car out , since she was convinced that , his warning unheeded , Naylor Massingham would waste no time in getting her out of his business . |
| 19 | ‘ You would n't think it so unexpected if you 'd seen the first nightclub I bought . ’ |
| 20 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 21 | It was a lame apology , but as she plunged into the cooler shadow of the house she knew she 'd used the first excuse which sprang to mind . |
| 22 | It 's a good job they 'd got the second book off to the publishers . |
| 23 | We deserved to win the 1st leg too . |
| 24 | Without any shade of doubt , France deserved to win the first official Five Nations championship and — would have probably grabbed the Grand Slam as well — but for the Twickenham goal posts . |
| 25 | He says that he was told his father was alive after the first crash … by the time he 'd had the second crash in the rescue boat he was dead . |
| 26 | We thought we 'd had the last laugh when we got to the play-off finals against Charlton but he was an even bigger pain in the arse after that . |
| 27 | This argument , however , seemed to defy the second law of thermodynamics which suggests that energy tends to become dissipated and order to dissolve . |
| 28 | We prepared to leave the next day . |
| 29 | ‘ Ironically by the time we came to do the first episode again , my hair had grown a little longer , so it was n't quite as eye-catching , but even so I think it 's a very unrecognised feather in Doctor Who 's cap that we created the look which launched Vidal Sassoon on his road to fame and fortune . ’ |
| 30 | He 'd called the next day , and Marlin had picked up . |