Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 2 | It led to the first of his nine England caps , mostly on tour , where his tubby enthusiasm and — from behind the ropes anyway — his seemingly unathletic , but jauntily optimistic matelot 's gait have endeared him to crowds . |
| 3 | But when it arose in the 16th Century , it simply denoted a man who had opted for worldly pleasure by marrying , in contrast to a cleric who stayed celibate . |
| 4 | It met for the first time on 25 February 1986 and includes representatives from the Departments of Transport , Environment , Employment , and Trade and Industry ; Kent County Council ; the district councils of ; elected members of Kent local authorities and Parliamentary constituencies ; Eurotunnel ; Transmanche Link ; and British Rail . |
| 5 | Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir , in January [ see p. 38710 ] was formed on Feb. 13 under the chairmanship of Col. Mohammed al-Amin Khalifah ; it met for the first time on Feb. 24 in the building which formerly housed the National Assembly — the elected parliament overthrown by Bashir in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |
| 6 | His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break . |
| 7 | His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break . |
| 8 | The route became circular in 1906 , going to Bolton Abbey and back , and in 1915 it changed for the last time . |
| 9 | Indeed it was historic , in that it provided for the first time for the elimination of an entire class of nuclear arms — land-based missiles of intermediate and shorter range . |
| 10 | Even the Darwinian theory of evolution was impressive , not because the concept of evolution was new — it had been familiar for decades — but because it provided for the first time a satisfactory explanatory model for the origin of species , and did so in terms which were entirely familiar even to non-scientists , since they echoed the most familiar concept of the liberal economy , competition . |
| 11 | ‘ Even when it stopped on the 5th ’ , the historian John Buchan was to write , ‘ there followed days of sombre skies and wet mists and mucky clouds . |
| 12 | It caught on the second try , and after a minute 's revving he switched off the ignition and let it die . |
| 13 | The committee already had prematurely exalted views of its importance , for it deferred to the next meeting the question of how to apply to the King for royal patronage — patronage of an institution which had no actual existence . |
| 14 | This scale has an Eastern flavour to it caused by the fifth , sixth , seventh and eighth degrees . |
| 15 | THE CHEER that greeted John Lloyd 's seven-foot putt as it dropped into the 18th hole at Deal signalled Tonbridge 's second Halford Hewitt Cup victory in two years . |
| 16 | With its tirades against the ‘ unnatural alliance ’ between capitalism and Bolshevism , it appealed to the last remaining hope — the belief in the miracle of a split between the eastern and western allies and a new alliance between the Reich and the West against Bolshevism . |
| 17 | It accelerated in the nineteenth century as industrialisation took place , and increased even more rapidly in the twentieth century under the impact of advanced technology and science . |
| 18 | But when it came to the first anecdote the tale of her son 's embarrassing performance in a school Nativity play the old professional skills suddenly shone through . |
| 19 | And when it came to the last garment , I pulled that off as well , glad as children always are , and I hope always will to be undressed and free , and stood in what Janet calls ‘ birthday clothes ’ . |
| 20 | It was this fact which led Lord Lyons to comment that the government did not lead so much as follow when it came to the last stages of the crisis . |
| 21 | It came to the third night . |
| 22 | I knew a putt would have to drop before long and it came at the 8th , the par-3 ( 178 yards ) . |
| 23 | It came in the 70th minute . |
| 24 | Urged on by a renewed Ibrox roar , they stormed forward in search of an equaliser , and it came in the 83rd minute . |
| 25 | It came in the 13th minute , when the defection of Dimitri Kharin from Moscow to Chelsea , cost the Russians dearly . |
| 26 | It came in the 37th minute , when he cleverly chested the ball down , and from 28 yards unleashed a fearsome , left-foot volley which flew beyond Tony Coton . |
| 27 | She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes . |
| 28 | When Noreen was fourteen , it happened for the fifth time , and her mother ran out of the house . |
| 29 | ’ If it happened on the 2nd of June this year , I 'd die . ’ |
| 30 | It happened in the fourth round at the 4th hole , and it involved a 4-iron . |