Example sentences of "this [noun] [verb] [pos pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years later , the Daily Mirror hired this car to transport its first million-pound Bingo winner , Mrs. Maudie Barrett to the Town Hall to receive her cheque . |
| 2 | Bath had used a variation of this move to score their first try . |
| 3 | This reaction owes its first impulse to the early days of punk , when groups like Marine , The Pop Group and A Certain Ratio first dabbled , intrigued , in funk . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , in Canada , people are this month receiving their first taste of subscription TV . |
| 5 | Although well known in Spain , Gordillo this month holds his first show in the United States in the newly revamped quarters of the Marlborough Gallery . |
| 6 | Anne Gibson , who earlier this month won her fifth successive Scottish women 's singles title , is the only Scot to be given a place in the main draw for next month 's All England Championships at Wembley . |
| 7 | This month sees their first CD album on their own R&M label ; a cassette is on sale now . |
| 8 | The 30-year-old rode 313 winners in South Africa this season to land his fifth jockeys ' title in record style . |
| 9 | Oxford United have their own ladies team this season … they 're in the first division of the National League and this week played their first game at the Manor ground … and the girls done well . |
| 10 | This week marks his 5th aniversary in charge . |
| 11 | Ampler took gold in the 100km team time-trial in the Seoul Olympics and this year scored his third successive win in the Peace Race , the amateur equivalent of the Tour de France . |
| 12 | Index on Censorship this year celebrates its twentieth anniversary of reporting on press and media suppression around the world . |
| 13 | Fine Arts Brass of England this year celebrates its tenth anniversary . |
| 14 | A £50,000 appeal has been launched to carry out vital restoration work on the parish church of St John the Baptist at Cayton near Scarborough which this year celebrates its 800th anniversary . |
| 15 | It was only the second authority in the country to open a state-run nursery , George Dent 's , which this year celebrates its 75th birthday . |
| 16 | Another good show to look out for this month is the Afro Hair & Beauty exhibition which this year celebrates its 10th Anniversary . |
| 17 | All this week we 've been reporting on the work in South America of Oxfam , which this year marks its fiftieth anniversary . |
| 18 | This year marks his tenth anniversary in management . |
| 19 | Crieff Hydro Hotel , Perthshire , is this year celebrating its 125th birthday . |
| 20 | These libraries are now represented by the Association of Independent Libraries , made up entirely of Britain 's surviving subscription libraries of which the most substantial is the London Library , this year celebrating its 150th anniversary . |
| 21 | They used to come here , yes , to this hotel to spend their last nights before they went to that bridge to hurl themselves off , sometimes in front of a train ; but now the line has gone and the track removed we do n't get so many nuts coming to end their days . |
| 22 | At about this time met his first wife , Mary , an infant teacher at Bradford-on-Avon , who died tragically three years ago after a brain haemorrhage . |
| 23 | Re-introduced , the Bill this time got its second reading in the Lords . |
| 24 | He had by this time divorced his first wife . |