Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Watt was not alone as an engineer and canal-builder , and his work laid the foundations of the industrial north of England , together with Thomas Telford of Dumfriesshire , greatest of the early civil engineers , William Symington , who designed and built the first steamship in the world as well as giving poet Robert Burns a rough ride during its promotional voyage on Dalswinton Loch , Henry Bell and his Comet , Nasmyth , there is nae doot that the Scots have a very special genius . |
2 | Donald Healey , who designed and built the first Healeys in the 1940s , also worked on the new design details . |
3 | It suggested that they shared some sort of secret , but of course they did n't , and when he rose and drained the last mouthful of his second cup of coffee before placing the delicate china cup back in its saucer she could only follow his lead , feeling certain that the relaxed mood was broken . |
4 | They have noted that many of the men who built and ran the Fifth Republic cut their teeth in the RPF . |
5 | He staggered and fell the last few feet and finally collapsed on the mud and grass of the bank . |
6 | Air operations in Hawaii were put under the direction of Lt Col Art Wildern ( USAF , ret ) who hired and trained the second crew of pilots who were to do the flying in Hawaii . |
7 | His ideas are as I they they say that he was er I do n't know how much truth I that he was the first that he patented and devised the first rotating drilling machine . |
8 | We developed and built the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon , and the first satellite for geosynchronous orbit . |
9 | And we developed and built the first air-launched anti-tank missile , as well as the first launch-and-leave imaging infrared homing air-to-surface missile . |
10 | Rupert Moon started and finished the first , bagging his first Test try in only his second international , while new cap Simon Hill went one better when he claimed a kick and chase try after only seven minutes on the international stage . |
11 | He rushed along London Street and Bridge Road so fast that he puffed and staggered the last few yards to the cottage where he lived with his parents and two younger brothers . |
12 | I repeated and repeated the twenty-third psalm , as I had done in so many kinds of danger before . |
13 | Then he went and brought the third sister , but she was clever and wily . |
14 | For in 1904 Lincoln Bush patented the Bush shed and installed the first at the Hoboken station of the Delaware , Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1906 . |
15 | Then he put his head down , growled and took the last few stairs three at a time . |
16 | ‘ We made it , ’ he said and took the second gun from Mariana 's shoulders without really looking at her . |
17 | In November 1984 the UKCC addressed the professions directly when it published and circulated the second edition of the Code . |