Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |
| 2 | Lathes were introduced to China perhaps as early as the Ming dynasty and were still being used in the jade workshops of Peking when Howard Hansford came to study them in 1938–9 . |
| 3 | Dustin left to join them at 11.30 . |
| 4 | The interview had left him with two clear intentions more firmly fixed than ever in his mind . |
| 5 | In June 1548 , when the Scots had suffered it for four years , lord Methven reported to Mary of Guise the results of his inquiries as to why the Englishmen were favoured . |
| 6 | More than 1,300 letters of congratulation had reached him within 10 days of the Croke Park cup final victory . |
| 7 | Since only two of the churches , apart from St. Patrick 's , are big enough to hold 400 people , a proposal was put to the Congregational Church to host the service some time in 1993 and the Church of Scotland offered to consider it for 1994 . |
| 8 | But Bret did let us into one secret . |
| 9 | Although the Ramsay Committee had suggested them in 1945 , they were never established . |
| 10 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 11 | The cruel climate and hard work had aged him by twenty years . |
| 12 | Captain Stephen Roskill , the official naval historian , had told me that Dönitz had informed him in 1959 that he had no reason to think that the German naval codes had been broken . |
| 13 | The problem arose if our visitors had changed them between one trip and the next , when he would be completely foxed . |
| 14 | Indeed , they had reckoned German strength in the area to be at most one corps although British Intelligence had estimated it at three and a half corps and even this , in the event , proved an underestimate . |
| 15 | Louis Pasteur had observed it in 1877 , but even he was not the first to do so . |
| 16 | The Shah 's own household had provided him with one of the major problems of his reign . |
| 17 | The girl continued shooting him for ten , maybe fifteen seconds . |
| 18 | The fat boy had mated him in four moves . |
| 19 | She was accustomed to exercise for , each morning for the past two weeks , Sharpe had saddled her at three o'clock , then ridden her south to watch the dawn break over the Sambre valley , but this morning , hearing the crackle of musketry to the east , he had ridden the mare much further than usual . |
| 20 | Basquiat 's estate , administered by his accountant father , still faces lawsuits from a dealer asking for $900,000 for three paintings Basquiat had promised her in 1982 but never delivered . |
| 21 | Accordingly when Bishop Mauger attempted to visit them in 1202 , both parties , bishop and monks , believing in the rightness of their positions , appealed to the pope , and the abbey also appealed to the archbishop of Canterbury for tuition , or protection of this appeal , while matters were pending . |
| 22 | True , a small band of bridge trolls tried to ambush them on one occasion , and a party of brigands nearly caught them unawares one night ( but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers ) . |
| 23 | A reptile of a money-lender from Poland Street offered to accommodate him at 40 per cent , '20 less than any other of the trade . ’ |
| 24 | The sellers gave the buyers a delivery note to enable them to collect the spirit from X. However , the buyers chose to keep it at X 's and did not come to remove it for some months by which time it had deteriorated . |
| 25 | In the 1920s , after the British literary establishment had neglected him for forty years , Machen attracted a coterie of admirers in the United States . |
| 26 | Carrington managed to get him to one side long enough to ask him what the airman had said . |
| 27 | After the closed meeting , military sources reported that Yeltsin had informed them of 90 per cent pay rises which he had ordered the previous week . |
| 28 | All he had was the certainty that whatever steps had been taken that day had led them in one direction only . |
| 29 | Every word of speech , song and prayer was in English , a great change from the services to which an Irish friend had taken me in 1960s Brighton . |
| 30 | The dog had awakened him at ten to seven with long-drawn howls and now , a quarter of an hour later , he stood on the threshold of Sheila 's bedroom , glowering . |