Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] in [adj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or maybe in 1992 it does . |
| 2 | The English discouraged the colony , the Spanish first watched it carefully to see that it showed no sign of succeeding and eventually in 1700 they captured it . |
| 3 | Sandys , when Minister of Supply , had already been instrumental in deciding to develop Blue Streak as the replacement for the V-bombers , and so in 1957 he saw no requirement for either Skybolt or Polaris . |
| 4 | In 1880 Ormiston 's health began to fail and early in 1882 he retired to the Isle of Wight , where he died in Freshwater 9 July 1882 . |
| 5 | He was commissioned almost at once , and early in 1792 he returned to the Foudroyant as first lieutenant ; in April of the same year he was promoted master and commander , being given the Pigmy of 14 guns ; and in 1790 he was made post . |
| 6 | In 1865 several experimenters were on the brink of discovering the important principle of self-excitation , and early in 1866 he presented a paper to the Royal Society on ‘ A New and Powerful Generator of Dynamic Electricity ’ , but failed to realize that practical self-excitation was within his grasp . |
| 7 | The dossers and down-and-outs of Glasgow between 1985 and 1987 , then a different kind of hooligan , then onto a series of a little boy with a yacht and then in 1990–1 I did a huge series of faces and , in the last year , I 've been concentrating on thug images with bow necks and caps and dogs . |
| 8 | The dossers and down-and-outs of Glasgow between 1985 and 1987 , then a different kind of hooligan , then onto a series of a little boy with a yacht and then in 1990–1 I did a huge series of faces and , in the last year , I 've been concentrating on thug images with bow necks and caps and dogs . |
| 9 | No less hierocratic than Pecham , Winchelsey eagerly supported the king with clerical taxes when the realm was in danger and when papal decree or canon law did not prevent it ; in 1295 and late in 1297 he evinced an almost unseemly — and not widely shared — enthusiasm to assist the king with clerical subsidies , but much of his tenure is remembered rather for his resistance to the crown 's efforts to tax the clergy . |
| 10 | Through the right of his mother , Edward had himself claimed the French crown when it fell vacant in 1328 , but probably more in hope than expectation , for in the following year and again in 1331 he acknowledged Philip VI 's lordship of Gascony ; not until 1337 was his own interest in the French crown voiced again . |
| 11 | In 1831 and again in 1832 he launched hot-air balloons at local festivals , one of them flying a distance of more than four miles , but even at this time his goal was powered flight with fixed-wing aeroplanes . |
| 12 | He restored and augmented the collegiate church of Crediton and founded another college at Glasney , near Penryn ; and in 1268 and again in 1275 he undertook the revision and amendment of the statutes of his cathedral church . |
| 13 | In 1882 and again in 1883–4 she visited North America , and she compared the movements for women 's work in England and America in Three Visits to America ( 1884 ) . |
| 14 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 15 | ‘ The means of accomplishing these points did not immediately present themselves : but early in 1765 it occurred to me that , if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids , would immediately rush into the empty vessel , and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium : and if that vessel were kept cool by an injection , or otherwise , more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed ’ . |
| 16 | In 1516 he was associated with Vertue in designing new works at Eton College , the west range and Lupton 's tower , but early in 1515 he had already become architect to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey [ q.v. ] |
| 17 | In international relations , in a broader sense of the term , they were beginning to play an increasing part , and one with immense potentialities for the future ; but even in 1914 they had only a secondary role in the thinking of diplomats or foreign offices . |
| 18 | When early in 1952 he held an exhibition of his work at the Archer Gallery in Notting Hill , he rang up Minton and invited him to see it . |
| 19 | His map of Cheshire , begun in 1774 , must have been completed by assistants , for early in 1775 he entered the service of the margrave of Baden , leaving a wife with his considerable debts . |