Example sentences of "early [num] [pers pn] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through his twenties and early thirties he had a succession of short-lived relationships with girlfriends which usually ended when they tired of his unreliable and generally difficult behaviour . |
| 2 | After work in several London hotels and gambling clubs in the early '80's he bought a pub and when this failed he found himself waiting at Phyllis Court before coming to the Golf Club . |
| 3 | In the early 1970s he introduced a type of tournament competition called knockdown , which , since it allows full power strikes to the body , he believed was the only true test of a karateka 's fighting ability . |
| 4 | In early 1958 he received a stream of well-placed visitors during his fortnightly trips to the capital . |
| 5 | In their early twenties they had a group called the Actors and RCA records asked them to come in for a meeting . |
| 6 | In the early 1960s she played a part in saving Brownsea Island from development : the island is now owned by the National Trust , and the Dorset Trust for Nature Conservation manages part as a nature reserve Helen Brotherton is the current Chairman of the latter organisation and , as well as serving on the National Trust 's Council , Appointments Panel and Conservation Panel , she was Chairman of the Wessex Regional Committee for a number of years . |
| 7 | University of Zambia , and in the early 1980s she received a scholarship under WACC 's Training Assistance Programme to advance her communication studies in Manila , Philippines . |