Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of jobless in Britain rose in April for the 13th consecutive month , bringing the unemployment rate to 7.6% . |
| 2 | The first outbreak occurred in Essex in the second half of May , in the form of resistance to taxation , by early June Kent also was in revolt , and by the second week of that month East Anglia too was affected . |
| 3 | An example of a short-term crisis reflected in coinage occurred in Rome during the Second Punic War ( 218–201BC ) . |
| 4 | But when Wedgwoods moved to Barlaston before the Second World War , the place became a steel works , and all the old buildings and kilns have since been demolished by the British Steel Corporation . |
| 5 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 6 | He won the Military Cross and rose to Major in the first world war . |
| 7 | Like many other mills connected with the woollen industry , their history is inextricably linked with that of the families of Flemish weavers who , following religious persecution , fled to England during the 15th and 16th centuries . |
| 8 | No penalty was given and insult was added to injury when Brugge equalised through Staelens in the 50th minute . |
| 9 | ‘ I have to be involved with Scotland at every opportunity , ’ said Collins , who played against Malta in the last World Cup tie after stating he had been left out on occasions when he felt entitled to inclusion . |
| 10 | After Dunfermline had failed to scored against Raith for the fourth time this season , manager Jocky Scott conceded the championship race to the Kirkcaldy side . |
| 11 | His takeover in January 1982 came with Oxford in the 3rd division and facing bankruptcy . |
| 12 | Sandy played with Watson in the third round , and Tom played so bad he convinced himself he would n't win . |
| 13 | And I sailed from Bombay on the eleventh November |
| 14 | We glimpse Raulinus , for example , who came from Devon in the mid-thirteenth century , wasted time as a student in Paris for two years and then came on to Bologna making a living copying manuscripts , drinking and writing love poems to Meldina . |
| 15 | The early Christian influence came from England from the tenth century onwards and its principal centre was at Uppsala . |
| 16 | When the Cistercians , ‘ White Monks ’ , came from Burgundy in the twelfth century they sought ‘ wildernesses ’ for their life of vigorous contemplation . |
| 17 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 18 | He and his wife were Turkish-born Jews who came to Palestine before the Second World War . |
| 19 | It was in the spring of 1956 that Elizabeth came to Greece for the first time , on a cruise . |
| 20 | He was the son of James Six ( 1695–1743 ) and his wife Ester , daughter of Louis Ducaufour , and descended from the Huguenot refugee families who came to Britain in the sixteenth century and settled in Canterbury , where they engaged in the silk-weaving trade . |
| 21 | Christianity came to Kerala in the first century . |
| 22 | When the first European missionaries came to China in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries no trace remained of the heavenly clockwork of five hundred years earlier . |
| 23 | For , after less than 20 wickets in four lean years with Derbyshire , Taylor was part of the Staffordshire team that came to Northampton in the first round of the 1990 NatWest Cup to be plundered by Allan Lamb and company for the record total of 360-2 . |
| 24 | He came to Stamford after the First World War and lived in the town during the 1920s at no. 20 St. George 's Square . |
| 25 | It began in April 1820 , when we came to Haworth for the first time … |
| 26 | Meanwhile , Auntie , who doted on Billy as the last child of his generation , was perplexed by the feeling that something she had done was not quite right . |
| 27 | Besides the various religions of eastern origin that flourished in Rome during the second and third centuries AD , there was also a resurgence of philosophical speculation . |
| 28 | On Nov. 23 , 1989 , Mgr Jozef Kowalczyk arrived in Warsaw as the first Vatican nuncio to Poland since 1945 . |
| 29 | When large quantities of Chinese blue and white porcelain first arrived in Europe in the 17th century the demand was so high it was nicknamed ‘ Chinamania ’ ; the phrase is just as apt today . |
| 30 | Some 13,000 Soviet immigrants arrived in Israel during the last week of June , bringing the total for the month to more than 20,000 , one of the largest monthly influxes yet . |