Example sentences of "fly [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Now back at Jan Smuts Airport , X-Ray Foxtrot may well have flown for the second time in civvies by the time these words are read .
2 Flown for the first time in 1958 , the DHC-4 Caribou has seen extensive military service .
3 The first PC-5A assembled in India was flown for the first time in August 1941 and one report suggests that fifty were delivered to the Indian Air Force from 1942 , but this has not been confirmed .
4 I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one .
5 Still popular , and made in new materials with plastic or nylon sail , the Peter Powell kite has introduced millions to the sight of its long tube tails following the looping flight pattern , and still , after over 15 years of its production when all else around has seen so much change , is a firm recommendation for anyone wishing to take up stunt flying for the first time .
6 Under contract from the Business Jets Division of Pan Am , Little Rock Airmotive in Arkansas converted a Standard Falcon into a specialised cargo aircraft , the prototype flying for the first time on 28 Mar 72 .
7 Several organisations have been signed-up to the rebuild and the schedule has the aircraft flying on the 50th anniversary date .
8 Pete says there 's great freedom in the air … you can float to wherever you want to … the sensation is great especially when you are flying on the last wind of the day
9 About 12,000 sorties were flown in the first week — about half of them bombing raids , the rest involving air refuelling , reconnaissance , fighter cover and the like .
10 This was known as the PC-5A and flew for the first time in July 1939 .
11 On July 20 , 1951 the Hawker P.1067 ( Hunter ) prototype , WB188 , flew for the first time — see page 78 .
12 America 's four-jet airliner flew for the first time on July 15 , 1954 and immediately revolutionised the world of mass air travel .
13 ELMER WARD ‘ S Grumman G–58 Bearcat N3025 , flew for the first time after rebuild on July 27 , after a ten year and $2m restoration programme .
14 The prototype , F-WLKB , flew for the first time on 4 May 63 with Pratt and Whitney JT-12A-8 engines of 3,000 lbs thrust .
15 The aeroplane is due to fly for the first time in 1995 and , once certified safe , should be flying passengers by 1997 .
16 WELL BEYOND the wildest expectations of even the most optimistic airframe designer , certain piston-engines airlines seem set to fly into the next century .
17 It 's very sad as the Squadron has strong associations with pilots who flew in the Second World War .
18 Harvey flew in the next day .
19 If Cypress Semiconductor Corp has its way , Sparcs will really begin to fly over the next couple of weeks .
20 The great temptation , particularly after a good round , is to fly over the last fence and gallop through the finish invariably trying to make up some time over an easy fence .
21 They were fledged and flown by the second week in February , is this a record ?
22 The Soviets have announced that one of the two Indian cosmonauts in training at Star City since the autumn will fly in the first half of 1984 .
  Next page