Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geelong forward Gary Ablett led his team with a record-breaking nine goals and became only the second person to win the most valuable player award while playing on a losing side . |
| 2 | Richard Littlejohn of The Sun became only the second winner of the Irritant of the Year award since Private Eye won in 1968 . |
| 3 | In the same year that Accrington Stanley became only the second team to leave the league through bankruptcy — Aldershot F.C . |
| 4 | The outside-half thereby became only the second player , after Neil Bennett in the 1970s , to score 300 points in a season for Bedford . |
| 5 | The Senate 's decision meant that Durenberger became only the ninth member to be so censured , and the first since 1979 . |
| 6 | He became only the seventh Briton of all time to wear the champion 's laurels and will go down in history alongside Mike Hawthorn , Graham Hill , Jim Clark , John Surtees , Jackie Stewart and James Hunt . |
| 7 | He became only the seventh Briton of all time to wear the champion 's laurels and will go down in history alongside the other greats . |
| 8 | He became only the seventh Briton of all time to wear the champion 's laurels and will go down in history alongside Mike Hawthorn , Graham Hill , Jim Clark , John Surtees , Jackie Stewart and James Hunt . |
| 9 | He became only the seventh Briton of all time to wear the champion 's laurels and will go down in history alongside Mike Hawthorn , Graham Hill , Jim Clark , John Surtees , Jackie Stewart and James Hunt . |
| 10 | He became only the seventh Briton to wear the champion 's laurels . |
| 11 | You now have a complete record of the super season in which Mansell became only the seventh Briton of all time to wear the champion 's laurels . |
| 12 | Couples not only finished top of the US rankings but became only the eighth player in history to win the Vardon Trophy , awarded for the lowest stroke average , and the PGA Player of the Year . |
| 13 | Malcolm became only the third Brit to gain any World Cup points this year and is definitely a name to watch for the future . |
| 14 | The 28-year-old Dutchman , winner in 1988 and 1989 , became only the third player to be crowned three times after compatriot and mentor Johan Cruyff and Frenchman Michel Platini . |
| 15 | PETER EBDON yesterday became only the third player to compile two 147 breaks in professional snooker tournaments . |
| 16 | The 28-year-old from Liverpool became only the third player to simultaneously hold both the world and UK titles when he triumphed at Preston a year ago . |
| 17 | PROFESSOR David Wilkie last night became only the fourth person to receive a gold medal from the Faculty of Actuaries in its 137-year existence for his contribution to the development of actuarial science . |
| 18 | The Great Britain scrum-half became only the fourth player in history to score ten tries in a match — equalling team-mate Martin Offiah 's club record set against Leeds in the Premiership semi-final last May . |
| 19 | Soon the tannoy system announced all the lower school messages : Mrs Joiner and I were deafened and it was sufficiently painful for me to feel relief when it stopped . |
| 20 | But her family owned only the upper floor of Damiani 's old house . |
| 21 | His most effective early church planter laid down the great missionary principle of becoming all things to all men that by all means he might win some . |
| 22 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 23 | Lord Atkin laid down the narrow rule in Donoghue v Stevenson [ 1932 ] AC 562 : A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in an injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 24 | Cornelius laid down the unsipped glass . |
| 25 | The big moment came : she opened her hand and laid down the burdened flower by Maman 's plate . |
| 26 | The statutes laid down the maximum size of peasant land allotments . |
| 27 | Will then organise conference at which present problems can be cleared and principles laid down The next day , 22 May , AFHQ replied to Eighth Army [ KP 22 ] ] : " Policy discussions on questions indicated your U 128 now being considered this HQ . |
| 28 | It also laid down the constitutional right for anyone who passed the Abitur — the German equivalent of A levels — to study at university . |
| 29 | I registered only the habitual glow of pleasurable comfort , but when I opened the envelope the reaction was one of electric shock . |
| 30 | She choked down the sudden lump in her throat , rejecting a surge of self-pity she had no need for . |