Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today 's farewell party brought together staff who 'd worked there during the Second World War . |
| 2 | The southern islands became known mostly during the 17th to 19th centuries ; Antarctica itself remained unvisited until the late 18th century , and unrecognized as a continent before the start of the 20th century . |
| 3 | In 1928 the Medical Officer reported that maternity and child welfare had developed remarkably over the last two years . |
| 4 | She knew her character had altered completely over the last few years . |
| 5 | Nor had the problems begun only at that time : the Bank for International Settlements had already warned that net bank lending had fallen steeply in the second quarter of the year , from $90,000 million to $65,000 million , while the amount raised in the world securities markets had shrunk from $44,000 million to $25,000 million . |
| 6 | Runcorn had fallen behind in the 19th minute but were unlucky to go in only level at the break through Steve Shaughnessy 's brilliantly taken equaliser - a flashing near post header from a cross by right back Jamie Bates . |
| 7 | Pat Archer , of the county council 's transportation department , said the problem had dropped slightly in the second half of last term . |
| 8 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 9 | But after all , he had come far in the last few months . |
| 10 | Nor , she was sure , Bert , whom she had seen yesterday for the first time as a potentially responsible comrade . |
| 11 | After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home . |
| 12 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 13 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 14 | His main findings were that 51 per cent had left employment in the destination area at some stage during the twelve-month period , most of these had returned to their area of origin and that 75 per cent of those who left the destination area had done so within the first ten weeks . |
| 15 | The population of Europe , including Russia , had grown steadily since the seventeenth century , and continued to do so after 1880 . |
| 16 | Yonder , the town , had grown enormously during the last twenty years . |
| 17 | The income from customs dues , which had risen sharply in the first year of the reign , thanks to Mary 's reforms , was remarkably sluggish thereafter . |
| 18 | The Polytechnic had argued convincingly in the first round that to have done so then would have simply involved the NAB in steering its ‘ service ’ work around . |
| 19 | The police reported that a number of fires — believed to be malicious had ignited simultaneously on the fourth floor . |
| 20 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 21 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 22 | At the [ material ] time the plaintiff had come from the back door of the house and had walked diagonally across the first concrete area ; she was intending to go and have a chat with her neighbour at the next house . |
| 23 | By the late 1930s the argument had swung emphatically towards the first of these two aspects of the idea . |
| 24 | He had gone halfway across the first field when he heard a cry behind him . |
| 25 | The thick grey hair had been tinted a reddish brown , a process to which she had succumbed only for the last two years , having previously been free in expressing her opinion of those stupid women who aimed to camouflage their age by dyeing their hair . |
| 26 | Domestic demand had increased dramatically in the fourth quarter of 1989 as a result of the influx of East German immigrants . |
| 27 | Corporate partnerships in engineering , electronics and computing , especially involving West Germany which accounted for 120 such partnerships , had increased sharply in the first half of 1990 . |
| 28 | And getting rid of an unwelcome ruler would not actually be novel ; it had happened twice in the fifteenth century , to James I and James III . |
| 29 | Sellafield 's Assistant Director , Projects and Decommissioning , , presented the prizes and paid tribute to organisers who had worked tirelessly from the first tee-off at 7.30 am to the presentation of the final raffle prize at 10.30 pm . |
| 30 | Although Eisenhower and Churchill had worked together in the Second World War as military commander and prime minister , Churchill had now to remember that Eisenhower was president of the world 's greatest power . |