Example sentences of "had [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blisters which had formed the first time now burst , weeping clear fluid onto the burner which hissed like an angry snake . |
| 2 | Symptoms developed four weeks after treatment for eczema had been started by the same hakim who had treated the first patient . |
| 3 | He moved and the slaves cowered back , as if , thought Nuadu , they had witnessed the next part before and feared it even more than the mutilating of the boy . |
| 4 | There was a request to Council to investigate the position of those who had completed the first module but were not registered and whether they should be allowed to attend the Keele Conference . |
| 5 | For next the stewards decided that only those drivers who had completed the first lap would be allowed to re-start . |
| 6 | By the end of the lesson we had completed the sixth month . |
| 7 | It was just the kind of chance she could n't miss , and if she had to miss the next flight home she was sure Lord C would understand . |
| 8 | She was n't scared , not even when she was half-way up the path , dark yews all around her , and heard the sound she had heard the first time . |
| 9 | He had broken the fourth wall . |
| 10 | On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss . |
| 11 | France was a side torn apart between Trillo 's desire to make risk a factor in the gameplan and Dubroca who , as the spiritual heir to Fouroux , had favoured the safety-first approach , no matter what he may have said in public . |
| 12 | It was generally felt he would have won at St Andrews after his 29 for the first nine in the first round if he had n't had part of the round washed out and had to continue the next day . |
| 13 | But after the All Blacks had won the Second Test 59–6 Mains was rather more relaxed and in fact exuded some confidence about the prospects of his new-look team . |
| 14 | Lagerfeld sent sketches off and six months later he got a telegram telling him that he had won the first prize in the group for coats . |
| 15 | The Navy had won the first round of the carrier battle : Sandys now conceded the RAF 's case for developing the TSR 2 around a new airframe instead of forcing the naval NA 39 upon them . |
| 16 | James had won the first round , though , suffering agonies of seasickness , he was in no mood to celebrate , while Admiral de Forbin , in an excess of caution , stood so far out to sea that they overshot their intended destination , Leith in the Firth of Forth , and instead made their landfall 60 miles [ 96 km ] north of Aberdeen and 150 [ 240 km ] from the real objective . |
| 17 | The Rona sheep had won the first round . |
| 18 | On their way to Estoril in the private jet Kate was forced to admit to herself that he had won the first round . |
| 19 | He had won the last contest on points , thank God , but he knew that a series of ‘ X ’ films , and the suggestive posters that were essential to their promotion , would give Father Whatsisname just the chance he wanted to point the accusing finger . |
| 20 | The 14 March 1988 order recorded that accounts had already been supplied to the plaintiffs and that those accounts had discharged the first defendant 's accounting obligations ‘ subject only to the plaintiffs ' rights under Ord. 43 , r. 5 of the Rules of the Supreme Court 1965 and their rights to require vouching of the said accounts . ’ |
| 21 | She saw then he had lifted the next tray from the box . |
| 22 | By the time she had rolled the last lump of dog food into the canal , the sun was beginning to rise in the east . |
| 23 | On the other hand , Spurs ' coaching double act of Ray Clemence and Doug Livermore opted for words of wisdom rather than wrath , after Liverpool had dominated the first half . |
| 24 | From Titron had come the first man who could withstand radiation , be it from a bomb , or in deep space . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Trounson , the team 's reproductive physiologist , and his assistant Linda Mohr , had frozen the fourth embryo in liquid nitrogen at the eight-cell stage . |
| 26 | On the completion of the circle , Moran again had to recite the Last Decade . |
| 27 | The dream grew faster and faster and more and more desperate , because he knew that he had to reach the last box before the end of the day . |
| 28 | As children , she and her sister Ruth had reckoned the first outing to pick primroses as the true herald of spring . |
| 29 | Established British companies had exploited the first whiff of pop vitality , with ABPC putting the saccharine personality of Cliff Richard through his paces in The Young Ones ( 1961 ) , a let's-have-a-show musical where all possibility of an interesting inter-generation clash is defused by the fact that its hero works for , and adores , his father , the property developer who wants to destroy the youth club ; and Summer Holiday ( 1962 ) , in which Cliff and the Shadows drive a London bus to Rome , pursued by the mother of the teen star they are thought to have kidnapped . |
| 30 | Although in 1927 Barbusse had attended the First Congress of Proletarian Writers held in Moscow , and although he had appeared to voice support for the new policy of subordinating the literary process to the construction of socialism , his actual writing practice was completely out of step with the doctrinaire ideas of RAPP . |