Example sentences of "it [vb past] [art] [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1922 it planned the first of a series of national hunger marches which were to become the NUWCM 's principal contribution to the inter-war years . |
| 2 | In the U.S.A. , a new rocket for space exploration , called ‘ Little Joe ’ was launched in May 1964 , and it became the first in a series under the name of ‘ Apollo ’ . |
| 3 | They modernised the mill and it is believed that it became the first in Britain to make paper from wood , ie : the first Natron-cellulose pulp mill in Europe . |
| 4 | Will the Secretary of State concede that one of the things that this will enable Yarrow to do is to keep its essential design capability , illustrated by the fact that it produced the first of class ? |
| 5 | Maisie had managed , somehow , to make Beethoven 's tune sound like a tired police siren ; when it dropped a fourth to B natural she paused , fractionally , before playing the note ; it sounded , as a result , like a burp or a fart . |
| 6 | It spent a third of a million pounds on this flare siphoning off dangerous methane gas — and has these Nigerian Lanner Falcons on constant guard against flocks of seagulls which can be a danger to planes from nearby RAF bases . |
| 7 | It lay a third of the way down a dim hallway . |
| 8 | Getting through it took the last of his energy . |
| 9 | The amazing thing about this second ‘ Carry On ’ was not so much that it succeeded at all , but that it outgrossed the first in the series . |