Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] was [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manchester United were convinced he was finished four years ago and were happy to let Villa take him — along with the personal problems which also contributed to his departure from Old Trafford . |
| 2 | He admired the stonework of the school , the windows and even pointed out how quaint it was having two handles on each side of the door . |
| 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 | But , poorly placed as X Corps was for any new attack , its position on either side of Fort Douaumont was so untenable that just by sitting still it was losing 230 men a day to French shellfire . |
| 5 | As he was not destitute he was charged 10.50 guilders a fortnight , all in . |
| 6 | In one year alone she was overseeing twelve undergraduates , of whom eleven emerged with first-class degrees . |
| 7 | In 1820 he was granted 190 acres of land on the waterfront in a location which was , at that time , outside Sydney . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By 1915 he was advising one commentator ‘ to treat my verse … as my essential writings , & my prose as my accidental ’ . |
| 12 | Beginning with 8 apprentice girls and three journeymen tutors , by 1863 it was employing 14 women . |