Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lathes were introduced to China perhaps as early as the Ming dynasty and were still being used in the jade workshops of Peking when Howard Hansford came to study them in 1938–9 . |
| 2 | Dustin left to join them at 11.30 . |
| 3 | Since only two of the churches , apart from St. Patrick 's , are big enough to hold 400 people , a proposal was put to the Congregational Church to host the service some time in 1993 and the Church of Scotland offered to consider it for 1994 . |
| 4 | But Bret did let us into one secret . |
| 5 | Captain Stephen Roskill , the official naval historian , had told me that Dönitz had informed him in 1959 that he had no reason to think that the German naval codes had been broken . |
| 6 | Louis Pasteur had observed it in 1877 , but even he was not the first to do so . |
| 7 | She was accustomed to exercise for , each morning for the past two weeks , Sharpe had saddled her at three o'clock , then ridden her south to watch the dawn break over the Sambre valley , but this morning , hearing the crackle of musketry to the east , he had ridden the mare much further than usual . |
| 8 | Basquiat 's estate , administered by his accountant father , still faces lawsuits from a dealer asking for $900,000 for three paintings Basquiat had promised her in 1982 but never delivered . |
| 9 | Accordingly when Bishop Mauger attempted to visit them in 1202 , both parties , bishop and monks , believing in the rightness of their positions , appealed to the pope , and the abbey also appealed to the archbishop of Canterbury for tuition , or protection of this appeal , while matters were pending . |
| 10 | A reptile of a money-lender from Poland Street offered to accommodate him at 40 per cent , '20 less than any other of the trade . ’ |
| 11 | Carrington managed to get him to one side long enough to ask him what the airman had said . |
| 12 | After the closed meeting , military sources reported that Yeltsin had informed them of 90 per cent pay rises which he had ordered the previous week . |
| 13 | Although the LTTE denied involvement in the assassination , it was widely noted that they had a strong motive , believing that Gandhi had betrayed them in 1987 when he dispatched the Indian army in an unsuccessful effort to bring Sri Lanka 's civil strife under control [ see p. 35313 ] . |
| 14 | Martinho had led them from one identical spot to another , sure each time it was the place , blundering through the heat and humidity with a fresh excuse burbling from his thick lips . |
| 15 | Pippin , the first of the line , had destined it for his first-born , the young Charlemagne in the 750s ; Charlemagne had assigned it in 790 to his son Charles , later labelled primogenitus and designated heir to the regnum Francorum ( though he predeceased his father in 811 ) . |
| 16 | Since the early part of the 1960s the sense that the universities needed to take their national role more seriously , as Reid had reminded them in 1948 , had been somewhat enhanced by the appointment of the Robbins Committee . |