Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 2 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 3 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 4 | DEC specialist , $100m-a-year Micro Technology Inc , has acquired five-year-old SF2 Corporation , the Sunnyvale , California-based firm that pioneered and commercially shipped the first fault tolerant disk array storage device known as RAID 5/6 . |
| 5 | In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 6 | I avoided M.O.D saturday evening ( WHY have the cameras for our worst home result since about 1980 ? ? ? ? ) , and only caught the last 3 goals on the Sky roundup on sunday . |
| 7 | He scored a grade A in his maths ‘ O ’ Level and naturally entered the sixth form where he flourished . |
| 8 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 9 | ‘ Just the job , ’ thought the enthusiastic Gary , and thus became the first person in history to attempt to convert a quartet of Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 10 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 11 | I say unwittingly because originally the second nine was intended to be the first , but this was changed and thus gave the second nine its water-strewn flavour . |
| 12 | They bought a garage at Caterham from Anthony Crook , who still runs the Bristol Car Company , and began by carrying out ‘ all the usual garage things ’ , and soon became the first Lotus agent when the manufacturer began to expand . |
| 13 | He set off for Ayr yesterday with five more under his belt and promptly won the first three races , two in photos . |
| 14 | Captain Simcox shivered and rapidly swallowed the last of his drink . |
| 15 | Quite apart from its technical ingenuity , its wily thematic evolutions and transformations , I love its eccentricity : only Bernstein could have ‘ tuned in ’ to Plato 's timeless dinner party and still had the last laugh . |
| 16 | George Woodger , an inside or centre-forward of the highest quality , played for the Palace in our earliest years and quickly became the first Palace ‘ superstar ’ — and that in an age when today 's publicity was unthinkable . |
| 17 | He eagled the 10th with a drive , four iron and five foot putt , and also birdied the 12th , 13th , 17th and 18th . |
| 18 | Problems with a flaked bone in his foot , a broken toe and then hamstring and rib injuries meant that McLeish played only seven times for Aberdeen last season and also missed the first 11 matches of this one . |
| 19 | Palestinians on Nov. 15 disregarded curfews imposed by the Israeli authorities and openly celebrated the second anniversary of the Palestinian declaration of independence . |
| 20 | Coming to the gate , he looked in at the cottage and instantly recognized the fourth photograph in Heather 's collection . |
| 21 | If not , the nets can be collected quickly and without too much care , to be cleared of any debris , maybe dried and even repaired the next day . |
| 22 | No , I just came over fields , I went along and followed a dyke , I turned left at the cafe , and then followed the first I saw going up . |
| 23 | Jack stopped , listening again , and then ran the last few metres . |
| 24 | The men ushered their wives and girlfriends to safety and then trudged the last mile to the party . |
| 25 | He drove half-way home before the windscreen-wipers packed up and then trudged the last two miles , through blinding snow , with the child tucked into his overcoat , her cold face buried in his shoulder , her small , cold hands round his neck . |
| 26 | After ten years building warehouses , they moved into high-rise development in 1965 , and then spent the next ten years making their mark on the Toronto skyline . |
| 27 | However , he never did , and friends claim the poor man had come across the result by accident and then spent the next six years until his death trying to find the combination again . |
| 28 | However , he never did , and friends claim that the poor man had come across the result by accident and then spent the next six years until his death trying to find the combination again . |
| 29 | ‘ And then came the first tragedy . |
| 30 | And then came the first Wednesday in October — the day of the Woman 's Institute bush walk . |