Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] and [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He joined up in the spring of 1940 and spent the next two years moving from camp to camp around England with the Royal Engineers . |
| 2 | Time to take advantage of any loose word like lucky and make a last effort to change the serious situation building up . |
| 3 | He was a King 's scholar at Eton College ( 1866–71 ) and went on to King 's College , Cambridge , where he was a Browne 's medallist ( Greek epigrams ) in 1874 and gained a first in the classical tripos in 1875 . |
| 4 | Liliane Lijn 's first Poem Machines were made in Paris in 1962 and exhibited the next year at the beatnik headquarters of La Librairie Anglaise . |
| 5 | She joined this congregation in 1650 and became a Fifth Monarchist in 1652 . |
| 6 | The poets and critics had played a considerable part in stimulating and organizing the first manifestations of the Cubists , but the connections between Orphism and contemporary literature were stronger and more direct . |
| 7 | Her independence and organizing ability had been displayed early when she joined the Girl Scouts in 1909 and formed the first Bournemouth troop of guides . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He won six amateur titles from 1926 to 1934 and became the first Canadian to win the United States amateur crown , in 1932 . |
| 10 | Bacon is an ‘ empiricist ’ , not because of some theory which shows that sensory experiential knowledge is superior , or prior , to knowledge acquired by reason , but because of methodological concern for advancing and improving the first kind of knowledge . |
| 11 | She then went to Wycombe Abbey , left at seventeen and took a first in modern history from the Society of Home Students ( later St Anne 's College ) in Oxford in 1905 . |