Example sentences of "he write the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He wrote the first card to Mitch .
2 The Reverend W Awdry has lived and breathed Thomas the Tank engine ever since he wrote the first book about the lovable locomotive in 1945. 25 more books about Thomas and his friends followed Mas well as popular TV series .
3 Sheltering abroad , in 1558 he wrote The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Woman — the ‘ regiment ’ actually meaning a regimen or government by women , which he condemned as ‘ a thing most contrarious ’ to God 's ‘ revealed will and approved ordinance ’ .
4 He wrote the first textbook on the relationship between the natural functions of the bones , ligaments , tendons and muscles , and dance movement .
5 He wrote the second instalment , The Witch in the Wood ( 1940 ) , in Ireland , where he spent a fishing holiday at the beginning of 1939 .
6 You know , I think the thing was that he was out of date , and by the time he wrote the second book he knew it .
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