Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His father 's idea of universities was narrow in the extreme and possibly based on his own education which had been one of strict discipline and the basic three Rs ; he had left school at thirteen and had to work hard for very little reward . |
| 2 | This venerable leader was lured to Canton by Nguyen in 1925 and persuaded to go on to Shanghai to an address just within the French concession . |
| 3 | However , a car was left on 25 October 1935 and began to run away down Anerley Hill . |
| 4 | Hobhouse began keeping a diary during his round-the-world honeymoon in 1893 and continued to do so for five years . |
| 5 | We began a more than modest tour in Buxton in October 1940 and continued touring all over the country , with occasional visits to the Prince 's Theatre or the New Theatre [ now the Albery ] in London , until the war ended . |
| 6 | Rome steadily rejected any compromise upon all three and continued to do so into the twentieth century . |
| 7 | Unemployment in the UK peaked at 17 per cent in 1932 but had fallen back to its 1920s level of 8 per cent by 1937 . |
| 8 | As was mentioned in Chapter 3 , the American decision to sell grain once more to the Soviet Union in 1977 wiped out the Soil Bank established in the 1970s and caused ploughing up of marginal land and a marked increase in erosion rates ( Cook 1983 ) . |
| 9 | He got off his bed at five and decided to ride over into Grasmere that afternoon . |
| 10 | In the wake of the F-111s that had flown out from their British bases to bomb targets in Tripoli and Benghazi , Mutual Radio 's correspondent arrived on the scene on 17 April with a laissez passer from the Libyan Consulate in Zurich . |
| 11 | On 5 June one of two Iranian F-4s that had come over from Bushehr , looking for another kill off the Saudi coast , was shot down by the Saudis ' more advanced F-15s , armed with the Raytheon Sparrow missile and guided on to their targets by AWACS surveillance craft . |
| 12 | He had proposed the visit to Burford on 17 May 1968 but had dropped out of the ill-fated return journey . |