Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
| 2 | She says ; The last time I saw him with the two children was on Saturday . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 4 | We walked the long , covered-in wooden bridge which led us over the Hundred Foot River to the members ' observatory . |
| 5 | In a sense this was so , but on the other hand the activity of town planning soon got bogged down in a technical bureaucracy , losing the dash and verve which sustained it during the 1940s . |
| 6 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 7 | Now the factory which developed it in the 60s looks set to go the same way . |
| 8 | ( Left The Lycett & Conaty radial gear , with which S.M.E.T. Nos. 1–16 were originally fitted and ( right ) the Warner gear which replaced it in the 1920s . |
| 9 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 10 | Afterwards , Bowe dismissed Lewis , who beat him in the 1988 Olympic final , as ‘ a big , ugly bum ’ . |
| 11 | The one who told me about the five quid . |
| 12 | Sure , you loved them in the '70s . |
| 13 | A blast of warm smoky air struck Meredith 's face as she preceded him into the one large room inside . |
| 14 | Thomas Baskerville , who saw it in the 1680s , called it ‘ Paradise Restored , for here you find large streets , fair built houses , fine women , and many coaches rattling about , and their shops full of merchantable goods ’ . |
| 15 | The general manager of the company Ian McCall said ; ‘ We have had a tremendous response already and we expect parents who wore them in the fifties and sixties to buy them for their children . ’ |
| 16 | Anyone know who marked him for the 3–3 draw at Leeds ? |
| 17 | On the first day he announced his new sponsorship deal with Everest — a return to the firm who supported him in the 70's when he rode for the Edgar yard . |
| 18 | And it was hundred and ten if you did it over the two six |
| 19 | In the big American museums you no longer have brilliant ‘ star ’ directors the way you had them in the Sixties and Seventies people like Sherman Lee at Cleveland , Fred Cummings at Detroit , Tom Hoving at the Met who could manage 5,000 projects at once , either making brilliant acquisitions , or putting on unusual or daring exhibitions , or making outrageous statements that might get them censured today . |
| 20 | The party has now discarded the leaders with overly Nazi political pasts who controlled it in the 1970s . |
| 21 | It 's just like sharing I mean if we had two pizzas and we shared them between the two of us how many would |
| 22 | If we had erm four pizzas and we shared them between the two of us how many would we get ? |
| 23 | I mean would it be the same if we had ten and we raised it to the three quarters . |
| 24 | When the wheels were finished they taped them to the four corners of t ] he bed and Mum spread the red blanket over the covers . |
| 25 | It was a thin day , and they ran it on the four o'clock news . |
| 26 | Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme . |
| 27 | Well he , he , he given them a free cup of coffee it 'll be alright , but he did n't , he gave , the machine took ten P pieces so he provided them with the ten P pieces to put in and then when it was full up he 'd empty it out and give them all ten P pieces back |
| 28 | Silently he handed them to the two sisters . |
| 29 | As he put it to the 1955 Congress of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party , ‘ socialist ideas can only triumph when the peoples of Eastern Europe eat like the delegates at this Congress ’ . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , the main thrust of Kandel 's findings and the theoretical framework within which he set them during the 1970s and 1980s have until recently scarcely been challenged . |