Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Their work was still circulating in the 1940s when Simone de Beauvoir criticised it in The Second Sex ( 1949 ) .
2 Ruthin join them in the last four after routing Rhos on Sea 8–1 , Arwyn Pierce and Stephen Flanagan and Geraint Wyn Jones and Dave Fuller with three wins and Sid Smith and Stefan Dowitcz two .
3 Instead , Eubank clinically TKO 'd him in the ninth .
4 As Thomas Becon put it in the sixteenth century , it was a ‘ duty of children ’ whose parents were ‘ aged and fallen into poverty , so that they are not able to live of themselves , or to get their living by their own industry and labour ’ , to work and care for them and ‘ provide necessaries for them , ‘ just as in their own childhoods ‘ their parents cared and provided for them . ’
5 Booth did it in the last minute , slipping the ball home after Lee Richardson , an outstanding performer in the Aberdeen midfield , had struck the post with a clever shot made possible when Rhodes miskicked .
6 Notice the bust of Dobrovský standing in front of the charming garden house which the Nostics gave him in the last years of his life .
7 Craig hurt me in the first round , but Robert told me to work harder and it all went well . ’
8 As David Lodge put it in the first issue of The Birmingham Magazine :
9 Defoe and Richardson enjoyed it in the eighteenth century , Dickens in the next .
10 As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ .
11 Mills kicked himself in the 13th minute when he missed from two yards .
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