Example sentences of "[prep] [num] and [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It covers Middlesbrough and Langbaurgh with its population of 300,000 and also provides specialist services such as forensic psychiatry to every district in the North . |
| 2 | However , after a short period in 1732 at the Dissenting Academy in Findern , Derbyshire , he became a justices ' clerk in Sheffield until 1737 and then commenced work as a carrier between Sheffield and Macclesfield . |
| 3 | Educated at the City of London School , he saw active service in France in 1918 and then read history at Merton College , Oxford , obtaining a first class in modern history in 1922 , and a D.Phil. in 1924 with a thesis on The Last Florentine Republic ( published in 1925 ) . |
| 4 | Other bequests include those of Cecil Madden ( who , besides being a prolific playwright , was the first producer for television at Alexandra Palace in 1936 and later became Assistant to the Controller of BBC Television Programmes ) and , more recently , the substantial theatrical library of Alfred Emmet , co-founder of the famous Questors Theatre . |
| 5 | Mr Shove joined the company in 1937 and eventually became chairman and managing director . |
| 6 | Eastern never recovered from a crippling strike in 1989 and now faces liquidation . |
| 7 | He was freed in 1983 and now having custody of his children works as a full-time father . |
| 8 | Per capita GDP fell , on average , 3.8 per cent annually from 1981 to 1984 and scarcely reached zero growth in the latter part of the 1980s . |
| 9 | Cooper , painstaking but unassuming , has been secretary since 1978 and now becomes vice-chairman . |
| 10 | Went through to Russell and certainly a good overlap from Lawrence his score is eight runs , so a hundred and twenty seven for four and now describing play for the next twenty minutes we 've got John Adnew . |
| 11 | He 'd once thought of asking one of the Venetz sisters out , but they were pretty well inseparable ; a turndown did n't worry him so much as the prospect of being accepted by one and so giving offence to the other . |