Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [pers pn] be [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half past six , half past seven , half past eight , half past nine , half past ten , half past eleven , half past twelve , half past one you 're talking seven and a half hours . |
| 2 | During 1696 he was appointed one of the commissioners to receive subscriptions for a land bank , but the subscription failed ; and in 1697 he was made one of the trustees for circulating exchequer bills . |
| 3 | Sir John Throckmorton , Chief Justice of Chester , was accused by the Privy Council of slackness and greed ; and in 1579 he was fined 1,000 marks in Star Chamber for forging a legal document . |
| 4 | In 1820 he was granted 190 acres of land on the waterfront in a location which was , at that time , outside Sydney . |
| 5 | Alcuin was also critical of the new Northumbrian king , Eardwulf , but when Eardwulf was driven out of his kingdom in 806 he was restored two years later through the intervention of Charlemagne and the pope ( see above , p. 157 ) , a clear enough demonstration of the continued maintenance of Northumbria at this time as a Carolingian sphere of influence . |
| 6 | He took out his first two engine patents in 1886 , and having progressively improved the design to give more complete combustion and avoid pre-ignition , in 1890 he was granted two patents for a hot-bulb oil engine , two years before Rudolf Diesel 's first English patent for his compression-ignition oil engine . |
| 7 | Within a year Cotter 's union was accepted by the Board of Trade as having more than 3,600 members and within two he was claiming 15,000 , mostly in Liverpool but also in Southampton , though a more likely figure was about 9,000 . |
| 8 | In 1653 he was appointed one of the commissioners for propagating the gospel in northern counties . |
| 9 | In 1990 they were halted 90 miles from the Pole by wide stretches of open water.Having already travelled more than 500 miles from their starting point in Siberia , they set a record anyway for the longest unsupported polar journey.Then Sir Ranulph abandoned the polar cold for the desert heat , to find Ubar , before again teaming up with Dr Stroud for this winter 's headline-making trek to the South Pole , breaking their own record for the longest unsupported polar journey ever made.They returned in February and Sir Ranulph still can not tolerate running shoes on his frost-bitten feet , to train for his next expedition — ‘ another hot one . ’ |
| 10 | During 1696 he was appointed one of the commissioners to receive subscriptions for a land bank , but the subscription failed ; and in 1697 he was made one of the trustees for circulating exchequer bills . |
| 11 | At 18 he was earning 8s , at 20 he was earning 14s , then in August 1910 , his seven years being served , he was earning 32s . |
| 12 | At 18 he was earning 8s , at 20 he was earning 14s , then in August 1910 , his seven years being served , he was earning 32s . |
| 13 | In 1981-82 , 3,800 tonnes were imported , and by 1987-88 we were importing 80,000 tonnes , thereby almost becoming one of the major toxic dustbins of the world . |
| 14 | By 1705 London already had 180 departing coach services ; by 1836 it was to have 342 . |
| 15 | In the beginning it had a circulation of two thousand ; by 1930 it was selling nine thousand copies per month at ten cents . |
| 16 | By 1789 he was employing five assistants in London , his brother Robert , a solicitor in Edinburgh , was attending to his Scottish business , and in spite of his Presbyterian background he was working on Sundays to keep up with the pressure of work . |
| 17 | Beginning with 8 apprentice girls and three journeymen tutors , by 1863 it was employing 14 women . |
| 18 | By 1915 he was advising one commentator ‘ to treat my verse … as my essential writings , & my prose as my accidental ’ . |