Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Barely over the age of 30 , I used some of them in 1961 against the Establishment .
2 The second wicket , like the first , produced 109 runs and he made 85 of them off 77 balls .
3 They seemed expensive to her at nineteen shillings and elevenpence but the small boy loved them .
4 I was sorry I got involved in it at one point !
5 ‘ Your appeal against the above offer of permanent accommodation made available to you on 12-9-91 has been considered carefully but I regret to inform you that the appeal has not been allowed and you should sign for the tenancy at the local housing office by 2-12-91 .
6 ‘ But we saw little of him in 1948 .
7 Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about .
8 When the children were older , Green took them out on longer walks , when he was painting or drawing in the hills , and occasionally took one of them on one of his excursions , when he would stay away from Ambleside for a week or more .
9 Not even when Pam Wright went 4-up on me after four holes in the final of the Scottish at Troon did I feel in any danger . "
10 Of his early paintings little is known , as he destroyed most of them between 1941 and 1944 , although as early as 1934 a crucifixion exhibited in a Curzon Street basement was singled out for praise by the critic Herbert Read .
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