Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 2 | Henry VIII was horrified by what he understood of Luther 's theology , and , in an attempt to rebut it during the early 1520s , he wrote with the help of a number of court scholars the theological tract The Assertion of the Seven Sacraments , for which he was rewarded by the pope with the title ‘ Defender of the Faith ’ . |
| 3 | Thomson 's son poured so much money into The Times in the vain effort to modernize it in the late 1970s that no one could blame him for wanting to sell it . |
| 4 | Now that the election has been announced , will the Minister take the opportunity to apologise to the industry 's workers and employers for failing to do anything to protect them in the past 13 years ? |
| 5 | If he had n't managed to convince her during the past eighteen years , he was unlikely to succeed this morning . |