Example sentences of "[adv] in the [adj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly in the thirties she announced that she was both too thin and too old to dance any more . |
| 2 | Early in the 1890s she went to work under Mrs Hugh Price Hughes at the West London Mission . |
| 3 | Early in the 1450s he married Margaret , daughter of Sir Richard de Vernon of Haddon [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | Now in the old we had er quite a reasonable scheme on this actual erm but you see , about ten years ago I think it was , there was another estate built on to , it 's called and although at that time we made the strongest possible representation for improvements and traffic calming in which is the only road that goes in and nothing was done . |
| 5 | Here in the Med we see boats from many nations and , with the exception of a very small number of elderly Britons and Dutch , most are comparatively recent recruits to the joys of yachting . |
| 6 | Then in the mid-seventies you discovered Hildegard Behrens . |
| 7 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |