Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it became the custom to bind a number of small books and , especially , pamphlets up together in calf or morocco , often suitably labelled on the spine . |
| 2 | On the hundredth blow he motioned his subordinates to cease and haul the moaning coolies upright . |
| 3 | In the early years of the " new diplomacy " in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries it had not been unusual for a diplomat who died in post to be immediately succeeded by a relative , often a close one , who had been attached to his mission with this possibility in mind . |
| 4 | Then in the seventieth minute he left Martin Smythe for dead wide out on the right before finishing the ball across Richardson into the far corner of United 's goal . |
| 5 | On the fourteenth day we moved to a different section of the training building . |
| 6 | From his window on the fourteenth floor he had a view downtown , but the scene was far from welcoming . |
| 7 | ‘ On my fourteenth birthday I bought a really cheap guitar and chord book from Argos and sat in my room for about 6 months and lear n't to play the entire Siouxsie & The Banshees first album . ’ |
| 8 | Her sixteenth birthday they had set the dining room table — her family usually ate in the kitchen — and her mother had imposed a reign of terror in her preparations . |
| 9 | On my sixteenth birthday I walked into the house with a fag in every orifice ; I was legally old enough to smoke , so , I thought , just try and stop me ! |
| 10 | By the time of her seventieth birthday she had served on the Board of Governors of the BBC , the Corporation 's General Advisory Council , the Arts Council and the British Council and their respective literary committees , to say nothing of her work with such organizations as the Royal Society of Literature . |
| 11 | In his sixteenth year he had the confidence to begin to write descriptive nature essays for publication in journals and newspapers . |
| 12 | In the sixteenth century they sought posts in estate administration , which brought a small fee to their holders but were probably more important as signs of royal favour and sources of patronage . |
| 13 | They might find that until the sixteenth century everyone believed that the Sun went round the Earth . |
| 14 | By the end of the sixteenth century it had been compounded for a cash payment from the counties and had thus become a straightforward tax . |
| 15 | From the middle of the sixteenth century there had , however , been some confusion in England , mainly because most continental countries had adopted 1 January as the beginning of their year , and had also assumed the same year number . |
| 16 | Thus in the sixteenth century there began , by warrant of the king , systematic heraldic visitations with the mandate ‘ to put down or otherwise deface … plate , jewels , parchments , windows , gravestones and monuments … wheresoever they be set or placed ’ should those things bear unlawful arms . |
| 17 | As yet the numbers were modest , but late in the fourteenth century they became , in F. D. Logan 's words , ‘ a torrent ’ . |
| 18 | By the fourteenth century there had developed simplified service books called Primers which were translated into English by the second half of the period . |
| 19 | For the hundredth time I cursed Benjamin and wondered desperately what had happened to him . |
| 20 | And for the hundredth time she found it impossible to envisage saying no . |
| 21 | For the hundredth time he turned over , rearranged his pillows , tried to put his brain into neutral , think of nothing . |
| 22 | In the first case they had enough kinetic energy to make it ; in the second case they did not . |
| 23 | In the second case she judged the problem of a woman who had to choose between a mature knight of complete probity and a young man devoid of worth . |
| 24 | The day of the hearing of her second case she had been found dead . |
| 25 | On the 1st March she took on wider responsibilities as Head of Scripture Union 's Development and Communication Department . |
| 26 | A neat bit of rewriting there ; the real Richard was one of the leaders of the Second Crusade which laid waste to Palestine , before ending up with a score-draw against the Arabs whose land he was invading . |
| 27 | The second reserve we visited was inland , although at one time the impressive limestone cliffs fringing the Hervey Nature Reserve had been coastal and some of the plants found here today reflect this marine ancestry . |
| 28 | A priori then , it would seem that Ho Chi Minh and his government were only to be regarded as an extension of Soviet power ; an assumption that was to be reinforced by the second constraint which originated in the Department of State . |
| 29 | The second difficulty which arose as a result of the legal model 's reliance on the contractual conception of the company was the increasing artificiality of this analysis as the size of companies grew and the shareholders became increasingly passive investors . |
| 30 | On his second wave he took a steep drop and his nose dug in . |