Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | He served an apprenticeship with the London bookseller Abel Roper from 1 August 1644 until 28 June 1652 , when he became free of the Stationers ' Company . |
| 2 | William became free of the Masons ' Company in 1663 . |
| 3 | Daniel became free of the Haberdashers ' Company in 1632 , and apprenticed Samuel to the same trade in 1634 . |
| 4 | At the expiry of his term he became free of the Clothworkers ' Company on 7 August 1771 . |
| 5 | He was apprenticed 2 December 1712 to Samuel Wastell , a London goldsmith , and made free of the Goldsmiths ' Company by service on 16 June 1720 . |
| 6 | Ribble Valley achieved brief fame at the 1991 by-election when the Liberal Democrats ' Mike Carr captured one of the Tories ' safest seats . |
| 7 | In the Northern Counties three metres springboard diving championships at Kirkby , Amy Howard ( Knowsley DC ) finished second in the Ladies ' championship to Olympian Naomi Bishop ( Oldham DC ) . |
| 8 | Socially , though , he and Karen , who taught part-time at a girls ' school in Headington , were both from a lower-middle-class , comp/tech background , and it may not have been only the fearsome price of property in the North Oxford heartlands which had put them off moving there . |
| 9 | The club also finished 26th in the youths ' event . |
| 10 | Hughes , who was runner-up last year , finished third in the veterans ' cross-country international in Northern Ireland last weekend . |
| 11 | Facts : the appellant pleaded guilty before a magistrates ' court in April , 1990 to an offence of receiving and was ordered to perform 180 hours community service . |
| 12 | We went first to the short-termers ' section , which consisted of several barracks in a surprisingly spacious compound . |
| 13 | I had missed , early morning , the VIC 32 , one of the few working puffers kept afloat by an enthusiasts ' club . |
| 14 | While the three-quarters enjoyed the glory , there were hard-working displays from back-row forwards Ben Clarke and Richard Webster while lock Damien Cronin took most of the Lions ' line-out as they shaded this department 18–16 . |
| 15 | A brief outline of the events is that the editor of a major medical journal ( a ) republished a previously published paper solely in order to attack it in an editorial ; ( b ) did this without the authors ' permission , while stating the opposite ; ( c ) initially refused to allow the original authors the right to reply in his editorial criticism ; ( d ) published a further editorial attack when ( a year later ) he published an edited version of the authors ' response ; ( d ) refused to publish any other correspondence about the editorial attacks ; and ( f ) gave another editor a dishonest account of events to dissuade him from publishing our account of the affair . |
| 16 | The decision removed one of the rebels ' principal grievances and was expected to strengthen Frelimo 's position at the negotiating table . |
| 17 | Secondly , that it did not conform to Hammond 's latest requirements , but then neither did any of the competitors ' schemes ; and thirdly , that the Committee had doubts about the accuracy of Pennethorne 's estimate , yet no estimate was required from the competitors . |
| 18 | I made most of the kids ' gear , all my own , most of Malc 's trousers , and started taking in sewing for club-turns . |
| 19 | A quick visit to the Roaches the day after Buxton revealed dozens of the climbers ' cars stretching along the road , and gritstone 's most sculptural crag crawling with their occupants . |