Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling remained a favourite with several monarchs : James II was born there , James III preferred it to other residences , James IV added to it , and James V transformed the interior into a Renaissance palace after his marriage to Mary of Guise . |
| 2 | For the greater part of the 1830s and 1840s Nicholas I dedicated himself to international peace . |
| 3 | Cottrell 's 82 left him in fifth place , along with Tim Paterson of Letherhead , with his Cheshire captain Phil Bailey of Caldy and another Cheshire player Gareth Bradley of Bramhall in a group on 302 . |
| 4 | ‘ Players are overpaid , pampered prima donnas , ’ he says , with a bluntness once very familiar to League secretary Alan Hardaker who in 1970 suspended him for ten weeks . |
| 5 | Two Bengali women in their twenties told me of many women they knew , and knew of , who were thus stranded . |
| 6 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
| 7 | ‘ One had him by one arm and the other his other arm . |
| 8 | The determination of the two superpowers to reduce their huge military budgets and the upheavals in Eastern Europe towards the end of 1989 translated themselves into special efforts to conclude a conventional weapons treaty ( see Bush 's NATO summit plan for a CFE agreement p. 36642-44 ) . |
| 9 | It has now been shown that Ramsay continued to develop and refine his style until an injury to his painting arm in March 1773 prevented him from further work . |
| 10 | But the fact remains that the Labour Party manifesto of 1945 contained nothing about New Towns . |
| 11 | Anglo 's purchase of Coalite in 1989 left it with total debts of £467 million . |
| 12 | Again , the would-be reformers ' interpretation of the 1980s led them to this conclusion . |