Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two weeks later I lined up in the 200 metres , one tight-bended lap of the track , in the AAA Indoor Championships , again meeting Phil Brown . |
| 2 | I know back in the 1930s Bradford City had a full back called McLuggage , but surely not even Reg believes that somewhere out there is a left back called Halfpound O'Liver . |
| 3 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 4 | Lots of firms which grew up in the eighties have collapsed leaving debts unpaid and it 's very hard for the rest of us |
| 5 | 4,000 Meteors were produced at the Gloucester aircraft company at Brockworth , which closed down in the 1960s . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most poignant part of her latest novel is the story of Christine , oldest of the sisters , who grows up in the 1950s , and is later described by one of her sisters as ‘ a feminist before her time ’ — which is , as the sister observes , a highly lonely position . |
| 7 | EVERYONE who grew up in the Sixties has heard of Transcendental Meditation and its founder the Maharishi , the giggling Indian guru who guided the Beatles through their flower power phase . |
| 8 | Parents who grew up in the sixties , when the cult of the teenager first took hold , may still look and feel young and be unready to acknowledge that their children are growing up . |
| 9 | She sat down in the one comfortable chair ; it had come from their housekeeper 's room , and had found its way to Billy 's kitchen , like the strip of Turkey carpet with the hole in the middle . |
| 10 | ‘ The main reason we broke up in the '80s was that after five or six years of constant touring and recording we suddenly found we did n't like each other any more . |
| 11 | We grew up in the '70s , and that 's what we were told , and then we grew up and all of a sudden they say no , you ca n't do that . |
| 12 | Er Madam Speaker I entirely agree , I entirely agree with my ho honourable friend er the absence of the social chapter in Britain accounts in part for our higher levels of employment and the reforms which we carried out in the eighties and the figures speak for themselves , as do the er people who speak for industry for example when Black and Decker announced their intention to bring their operations er fully into Britain out of Germany , a company spokesman said anyone familiar with this sit situation in Germany will grasp that because of costs it is become very difficult to do business there . |
| 13 | Taylor has been to Rome to talk to Gascoigne , whose last serious outing saw him carried off in the 1991 FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest with knee ligament damage . |
| 14 | The Zamoyski family 's attempts to reactivate a foundation they set up in the 1920s at Kornik , a Scottish-baronial monstrosity housing a priceless library of early illuminated manuscripts and incunabula , are being thwarted by the Polish Academy of Learning , which swallowed it up in 1945 . |
| 15 | We believe they started up in the mid-1930s , but by 1970 seemed to have closed down . |
| 16 | ‘ He was OSS , then in London at the time of Winter Garden , then he came back in the mid-Sixties . |
| 17 | It will not be long before the circumstances in this country — I do not refer to a change of Government at the next election , which I profoundly do not wish to see — allow us to catch up in the two key areas which were subjected to further delay on this occasion . |