Example sentences of "they [vb past] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could n't believe it when they got the first goal after ten seconds |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He took her hand and they approached the second door on the left . |
| 8 | He has described the moment which put him and his mount into Grand National legend as they approached the twenty-third fence : |
| 9 | On the golf-course behind him a foursome of players shouted to one another as they approached the fourteenth green . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As they entered the last fortnight of the share sale there was still a shade under half the £6.5 million to be raised . |
| 12 | The tail end of the search for Surere was still in progress when they found the fourth girl . |
| 13 | Shortly afterwards they invited the seventh defendant who was employed by the plaintiffs ' group to join them . |
| 14 | They granted the second subsidy only on condition that the king himself went abroad to try to bring an end to the war . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They hired the first agent , ‘ Digs ’ , of Oxford Street , to manage as well as to let their flat . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They dominated the first half adding further tries through winger Gavin Thompson and Pears , who also landed two penalty goals . |
| 22 | They dominated the first quarter of the match with Raducanu plundering some tidy line-out ball . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It took another five days of route-marching before they heard the first sound of artillery fire , could smell the trenches and therefore knew they must be approaching the front . |
| 25 | They had reached the top of the hill when they heard the first soul-chilling , baying call . |
| 26 | From this vantage point they were to keep up a steady rifle fire on the sepoys advancing over the open ground until they heard the first ringing of the Church bell . |
| 27 | They returned the next day with the coffin and four men from the workhouse who were to carry it . |
| 28 | Fifteen Associates , plus two from each of the Irish and Scottish Institutes , travelled to Frankfurt , where they spent the first week of the ninth German Banking Study Tour . |
| 29 | As soon as they finished the first course Rodney raised his wine glass . |
| 30 | To imagine what it would have been like a hundred years ago , when men were swinging over the cliffs on ropes made of horsehair , and climbing the soaring pinnacles of Stac Lee and Stac an Armin to harvest the gugas , the young gannets which would ensure they survived the next winter . |