Example sentences of "[vb past] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the boy met the first Anglican priest who interested him in religion . |
| 2 | It met the first two of the quarter-final matches head on as they tackled the shortish par-four 12th which , for a few minutes , became a monster and odd routes were used to reach the green . |
| 3 | The woman screamed , the man went for the bedroom door and met the first FBI man on the landing . |
| 4 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 5 | He then went back to Nigel 's room to see how the women were getting on — and met the first snag in the arrangements . |
| 6 | Wolsey met the first crisis by ordering the levy of a forced loan . |
| 7 | THE Prime Minister met the first British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest — and got her name wrong . |
| 8 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
| 9 | ‘ When we met the last time . |
| 10 | Frogmarched to the open rear doors , she met the fourth man coming the other way , his arms struggling to restrain the squirming , yelling child . |
| 11 | The Civil Aviation Committee met the next day and challenged two parts of the draft agreement that the Americans had inserted : the right of civil aircraft to use the US-leased bases in the Caribbean and Atlantic , and the right of US airlines to ‘ change gauge ’ in Britain , that is , switch to smaller aircraft for flights going on as part of the fifth freedom . |
| 12 | Then he picked up Darmid 's sword and met the next grypesh with a savage thrust that disembowelled it . |
| 13 | ‘ You know , ’ whispered the first one , ‘ we should be okay as long as the batteries on our torches hold out . |
| 14 | " Tell him the sun-god promised that you would be the wisest of men , " whispered the third goblin . |
| 15 | Nicolo watched as Caroline spooned the last bit of tiramisu from her dessert plate . |
| 16 | This construct therefore lacked the first three hypersensitive sites ( HS1 , HS2 and HS3 ) but contained all the downstream HS sites . |
| 17 | Samuel Barber 's Adagio for Strings was well enough played but lacked the last ounce of passion , and suffered badly from the aurally obtrusive air conditioning system , Randall Thompson 's Alleluya showed that the Festival Chorus on this occasion were equally as adept at unaccompanied singing as their counterparts had been last week . |
| 18 | But he posted the second letter now , before he took the Bakerloo line to Kilburn . |
| 19 | Although Hayman was over-age for recruitment , he was taken into the Diplomatic Service as a first secretary in 1954 and posted the next year to Belgrade . |
| 20 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 21 | Typical of these was Will Zens ' To the Shores of Hell ( 1965 ) , which depicted the first landings of American Marines at Da Nang . |
| 22 | Richie emptied the last of the Glenlivet bottle into their glasses . |
| 23 | She unlocked the next room which had stood empty for months . |
| 24 | His head bent slowly down to her , his eyes burned deeper and , held immovable , she endured the first kiss she had ever received . |
| 25 | As a leading suffragette , she endured the first of two spells in Holloway gaol in 1907 . |
| 26 | During the rest of the inter-war period , and indeed ever since , Labour politicians and commentators have attempted to explain why Ramsay MacDonald ditched the second Labour government and formed a National Government . |
| 27 | A SPECIAL task force yesterday unearthed the last £140,000 of the ransom money handed over after estate agent Stephanie Slater was kidnapped . |
| 28 | Having got to within two of his fifty he slightly misjudged the next short one from Thommo , and had to jerk his head rapidly out of the line of the ball . |
| 29 | Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born . |
| 30 | In October he passed the first part of the examination for ordination , and afterwards could not understand how he passed . |