Example sentences of "he [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , he made the first of his mistakes . |
| 2 | Karajan 's response to Honegger 's Symphonie liturgique and its near contemporary , Strauss 's Metamorphosen , of which he made the first recording in 1947 , provides specifically musical evidence of Karajan 's priorities and allegiances that I have yet to see considered by those who have become so concerned to analyse and recycle often erroneous information about his alleged political sympathies before and during the Second World War . |
| 3 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 4 | Flying from a landing ground at Smoogro he made the first ever landing on the deck of a ship at sea on August 2 , 1917 . |
| 5 | Now in his 40s , he made the first solo ascent of Point Young on the Grandes Jorasses in August . |
| 6 | Cody was largely responsible for the engine installation of the airship which flew in 1907 , and he designed and constructed the machine on which he made the first powered aeroplane flight in Great Britain on 16 October 1908 . |
| 7 | He made the first recording of the human electrocardiogram in 1887 , an important advance which , in other hands , had widespread applications in medicine . |
| 8 | Pérez escaped from his residence just before it was surrounded , and went to a private television station from which he made the first of four broadcasts to the nation repudiating the coup . |
| 9 | He made the first goal with a delightful , a dazzling run . |
| 10 | A pronouncement which proved to be news to his own personnel department when he made the first anguished inquiries . |
| 11 | Oh well it er General , he made the first road . |
| 12 | In 1910 he made the last of his great journeys across China , travelling from Honan in Central China to Russian Turkestan , a distance of 3,750 miles in 174 days . |
| 13 | He made the last of his 51 appearances against Scotland in 1984 . |
| 14 | I do notice one or two places , though , where Ciccolini departs form the Durand text — e.g. he plays the fourth and sixth quarte of the study in fourths as E and A instead of G and C , and the second quaver in bar 10 of the final ‘ chords ’ study is a G minor chord where G major is printed ( though we get G major in the reprise at 4′18″ ) . |
| 15 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 16 | This week he records the first two programmes for his 21st series of TV 's Record Breakers . |
| 17 | In October he passed the first part of the examination for ordination , and afterwards could not understand how he passed . |
| 18 | Simon stayed at home working for the Bar Examination , he passed the first part quite soon just as he had predicted . |
| 19 | Then , his smile broadening , he passed the second file to Ellis . |
| 20 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 21 | In the mid-Sixties , as a prominent if unlikely member of London 's ‘ underground ’ , he produced the first single by the Pink Floyd . |
| 22 | Yet despite his didactic purpose and his concern with detailed narrative , he produced the first work to immortalize a castellan dynasty in France . |
| 23 | As Superintendent in Bolton he produced the first issue of The Deaf Quarterly News as a local news-sheet of four pages . |
| 24 | In 1944 he produced the first fixed-odds football coupon , and set up a separate football company in 1944 . |
| 25 | He produced the second highest attendance in 150 years . |
| 26 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |
| 27 | NEWTOWNABBEY mayor Alderman Arthur Kell will send a rocket into orbit this Saturday when he lights the first firework at the Valley Leisure Centre 's annual display . |
| 28 | He said it was important that the pace of change was ‘ right ’ but refused to say when he expected the last of the doomed homes to say goodbye to its last resident . |
| 29 | With his compatriot colleagues — the already mentioned Kerle , Jacob Regnart ( c. 1540–1599 ) , Charles Luython ( C. 1557–1620 ) — and other composers in Prague , Jacobus Handl , ‘ Gallus vocatus , Carniolanus ’ ( 1550–91 ) and the remarkable Czech amateur Kryštof Harant z Polžic ( 1564–1621 ) , together with Giaches de Wert ( 1535–96 ) who settled in Italy , he represents the last flowering of the Netherland tradition in church music . |
| 30 | Soon , he became the first man to drive on an Icelandic glacier . |