Example sentences of "[adv prt] in the [num ord] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We heard them settling down in the next room which until then had been empty . |
| 2 | He 'd seen a bit of that kind of thing going on in the last hospital he was in . |
| 3 | Well a way back in the last century they they had to go looking for a life a living elsewhere because of the poverty of the place . |
| 4 | Back in the 10th century they would scoop out holes in the sand to get at the crude for medicinal purposes . |
| 5 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |