Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb past] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | The second came in the last minute of normal time and followed an impressive maul , in which Boro drove over the line but could n't get the ball down . |
2 | The sixth came in the 74th minute with Rush pouncing to punish Christophi again after he had failed to hold another Jamie Redknapp shot . |
3 | In this small group of tales he first described in the third person how a murder had happened and then in the voice of his " Watson " narrated the activities of his sleuth , Dr Thorndyke , the scientist , in bringing the murderer to book . |
4 | The Jeep Wranglers receiving so much stick last week were the direct descendants of the vehicle which first surfaced in the Second World War when Ford mass produced the Jeep ( GP from General Purpose ) runabouts to take the invading allies to Berlin just as fast as the film crews could follow the generals . |
5 | Yeovil 's first came in the 31st minute when Paul Wilson scored with a low diving header . |
6 | Though other , and earlier , examples are known , the term is normally employed for a typically English technique first evolved in the seventeenth century but not fully developed till the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
7 | The company first emerged in the Second World War , supplying electrical components for the RAF , and much of its advanced scientific work for the Ministry of Defence in ‘ Electronic Systems ’ remained ( like that of very many Defence suppliers ) in the South , co-ordinated from national headquarters in Ilford ( Greater London ) . |
8 | Solicitors first appeared in the fifteenth century . |
9 | They first appeared in the seventeenth century and ceased to be built after the middle of the nineteenth century , when the advent of portable threshing machines meant that ricks could be built and threshed in the fields and field barns were no longer needed . |
10 | In that country they first appeared in the mid-thirteenth century , groups of men who , under the leadership of enterprising leaders , contracted ( hence the name condottiere which they were given ) with individual city states which lacked their own armies but had the funds necessary to pay them , to guard their territory and maintain a measure of order . |