Example sentences of "they [vb past] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 2 | Could n't believe it when they got the first goal after ten seconds |
| 3 | In his autobiography Nothing Venture Nothing Win Hillary describes the moment in 1953 when they became the first people ever to reach the top of Everest . |
| 4 | They became the first club since the war to win the Cup and the League , and were the first to win the League on goal average . |
| 5 | His brother , Cherry , joined him in his work and together they became the first men to illustrate books on natural history throughout with photographs . |
| 6 | When not busy whipping crowds to a frenzy ( but more of the Skin 2 Rubber Ball later ) , they became the first band to play the newly re-opened Stone Pony Club in Asbury Park , New Jersey where , of course , BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN first launched his career . |
| 7 | Their cattle are finished : they made the last batch of bread with oxblood to save what 's left of the water , and they drink that mixed with wine , of which there is n't all that much , either . |
| 8 | Soon he was cannoning off lime trees and , as they passed the second gates , crashed into the left-hand gatepost . |
| 9 | As they passed the third cave , the golden bee flew out of the woman 's sleeve , and they saw the lightning flash and heard the thunder crack behind them . |
| 10 | The triggers for Britain 's nuclear bombs were tested within their thick concrete walls and they housed the first experiments into radar.The buildings , on a remote spit of land on the Suffolk coast , may not be the oldest but they are certainly among the most historic and sinister in the ownership of the National Trust.They are on Orford Ness , a desolate wildlife haven , which has become the Trust 's latest acquisition at a cost of £3.5 million.Yesterday , in pouring rain and silence broken only by the eerie shriek of gulls , the buildings were shown to journalists for what is thought to be the first time since they were erected.Strands of barbed wire and a Ministry of Defence ‘ keep out ’ notice are now the only remaining evidence of the tight security , overseen by armed guards , which surrounded one of Britain 's most secret research establishments . |
| 11 | 13–6–1866 They appointed the first Sabbath in August for the dispensation of the Lord 's Supper and remonstrated with the Kirk Session in Kilmeny who had chosen the same day for their celebration . |
| 12 | He took her hand and they approached the second door on the left . |
| 13 | He has described the moment which put him and his mount into Grand National legend as they approached the twenty-third fence : |
| 14 | On the golf-course behind him a foursome of players shouted to one another as they approached the fourteenth green . |
| 15 | They devoted the second half to a work written by a composer who was also a student at the time of its creation , Josef Suk . |
| 16 | As they entered the last fortnight of the share sale there was still a shade under half the £6.5 million to be raised . |
| 17 | The tail end of the search for Surere was still in progress when they found the fourth girl . |
| 18 | Shortly afterwards they invited the seventh defendant who was employed by the plaintiffs ' group to join them . |
| 19 | They granted the second subsidy only on condition that the king himself went abroad to try to bring an end to the war . |
| 20 | The ALP finished with 0.2 per cent less of the two-party preferred vote than did the opposition coalition , and in at least 10 instances the ALP won because they received the second preference votes of supporters of the Greens . |
| 21 | ‘ They received the last rites and a blessing ? ’ |
| 22 | They hired the first agent , ‘ Digs ’ , of Oxford Street , to manage as well as to let their flat . |
| 23 | Well , th I I must have told you because it 's one of the things that er stand out that on on the day when they dropped the first bomb in I and I I and it was er it 'd be the thirty first of January , but I do n't know whether it was er fifteen or sixteen , nineteen fifteen or nineteen sixteen . |
| 24 | Before the meeting they celebrated the 70th birthday of churchwarden Rosemary Paxton and to mark the occasion and her many years of service to the church presented her with a basket of flowers . |
| 25 | MEMBERS of the radical black Pan Africanist Congress were told by their leader yesterday to brace themselves for a bitter struggle as they celebrated the 33rd anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre with a fiery demonstration of militancy in the township where the killings occurred . |
| 26 | They claimed the first Tardis , as used in the 1963 series starring William Hartnell , collapsed 16 years ago . |
| 27 | Oldham , who have now gone seven away games without a win , will rue the fact that they dominated the first half but failed to turn it to advantage . |
| 28 | They dominated the first half adding further tries through winger Gavin Thompson and Pears , who also landed two penalty goals . |
| 29 | They dominated the first quarter of the match with Raducanu plundering some tidy line-out ball . |
| 30 | They awarded the first prize for the block plan design to Crepinet , the second to William Hastings of Belfast and the third to Morgan and Phipson . |