Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the spring of 1942 they carried out the most effective sabotage raid of modern times , destroying the St Nazaire ( French coast ) battleship dock and preventing the Tirpitz — the most powerful battleship then afloat — from moving to this possible base for raids on American troop and weapon convoys . |
| 2 | ‘ In 1986 they shut down the mine and offered all the workers a pay-off . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In 1885 she took over the management of the embroidery section of Morris & Company , her father 's firm . |
| 5 | On his father 's death in 1867 he took over the business , and in the 1871 census he was described as ‘ chemist and dealer in foreign stamps ’ . |
| 6 | In 1684 he turned over the retail side of his business to Francis Saunders and his partner Joseph Knight . |
| 7 | From 1963 they filled in the gully and fenced the land . |
| 8 | A college for women had been Mrs Reid 's dream from childhood , and in 1849 she put up the money to found Bedford College , hoping for hundreds of applications but in fact receiving at first only a few dozen , including those of her own friends . |
| 9 | In 1984 he took over the occupancy of 84 acres of land near Gosforth in Tyne and Wear which was owned by the Ashdale Land and Property Company . |
| 10 | When peace came again in 1918 we followed up the production of reversible wool rugs with the making of chenille Axminster carpets . |
| 11 | In 1952 he took over the captaincy from Michael Barton . |
| 12 | He built his first car by the time he was 18. in 1909 he took over the Molsheim factory near Strasbourg and set about developing the greatest racing car in the world . |
| 13 | He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research . |
| 14 | When her brothers joined up in 1914 she took over the running of the Ferry assisted by some local boys who enjoyed the good food that Mrs Stevens provided . |
| 15 | In 1958 he took over the running of the Horncastle Maltings , which , after a series of ownerships was acquired by . |
| 16 | In 1441 he took over the work from two Venetian architects and supervised the work for the next three decades . |
| 17 | However , in 1855 he took up the post of professor of drawing at King 's College , London , which he combined with book illustration . |
| 18 | In 1951 he took on the vice-presidency of the newly formed Musician 's Organization for Peace . |
| 19 | He could see that refrigeration would bring about a complete change in people 's lifestyles and in 1880 he took over the patents of the Bell–Coleman cold-air machine and developed what was known as the dry air refrigerator . |
| 20 | In 1880 he set up the Art Furnishers ' Alliance at Bond Street to sell ‘ artistic house furnishing material ’ . |
| 21 | In 1983 he took over the captaincy of Jamaica when Rowe went to South Africa but found it a difficult business , perhaps because he is too quiet and introspective for cricket leadership . |
| 22 | By 1984 he plucked up the courage ( or obtained the permission ) to do the two things he really wanted : make wine from Pinot Gris ( originally a Burgundian grape ) as a Burgundian would , fermenting and maturing it in ( partly new ) French oak barriques ; and stop filtering his dry white wines . |
| 23 | One by one she slid out the drawers , then taking a necklace from its bed she held it up . |