Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 they both moved to Porter 's house paints division , where Mr Horton is vice-president . |
| 2 | In 1779 it was the more radical of the parliamentary reformers and in 1790 it probably told against supporters of the third effort to do away with religious tests that they tried such unconventional methods . |
| 3 | A likely explanation is that , although in book 2 he again collaborated with Danchet ( nos. 1–4 ) , and worked with another eminent librettist , Fuselier ( nos. 5–6 ) , they provided him with poems whose dramatic interest is uneven . |
| 4 | In 1903 he finally returned to England . |
| 5 | Five times the size of Rutland , Buckinghamshire shows every symptom of several standards of assessment : numerous reductions in the Chiltern hundreds in 1524 reduced aggregate wealth from £97 to £67 per thousand acres , while in Buckingham hundreds it only dropped from £84 to £59 , but throughout the northern half of the shire many of the 1522 assessments were retained substantially unaltered , conceivably because the people concerned deemed it prudent to keep their mouths shut and pay up ; a significant number were actually uprated , perhaps penalised for having the gall to seek abatements , so attracting a further , more searching investigation of their means . |
| 6 | From the comparative opulence of 17-6 they then slipped into penury by conceding 18 unanswered points . |
| 7 | During 1822 he also went into business as a retail goldsmith and jeweller in Bond Street with John Mortimer ( died 1871 ) . |
| 8 | In 1564 he abruptly withdrew from Moscow and threatened to abdicate . |
| 9 | In 1388–95 he also worked for Wykeham at Bishop 's Waltham . |
| 10 | On the morning of Saturday 12 November 1715 he suddenly advanced on Preston with six regiments of cavalry and one of foot . |
| 11 | During World War II he regularly sent to pupils who were on active service a circular newsletter of a highly characteristic kind ; these were published in 1945 in a book called Letters from Cambridge . |
| 12 | According to a report in the Sunday Times of Oct. 11 he subsequently re-emerged in charge of the country 's intelligence services . |
| 13 | ( c ) Under anti-discriminatory legislation The Sex Discrimination Acts 1976 and 1986 These apply to all partnerships irrespective of the number of partners ( before 1986 they only applied to partnerships with six or more partners ) . |
| 14 | After 1987 she publicly disagreed with policies of her Foreign Secretary and Chancellor . |
| 15 | During the 1920s she frequently stayed in Florence , where she befriended ( Sir ) Harold Acton and Ronald Firbank [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the rules inspector would come in next and the rules inspector would say to the guy how many rules policies are and you say oh G A inspector and to every one he actually gained in fact it was n't there was no commitment there at all get rid of people . |
| 17 | In 1871 he again talked on dust and smoke , describing a respirator he had invented using charcoal to absorb noxious fumes ; this device to assist firemen was in the Royal Institution tradition going back to Davy 's miner 's lamp . |
| 18 | WHEN Fattorini & Sons , of Birmingham , were commissioned to fashion a trophy for a new competition to be run by the Essex Football Association in 1882 they really went to town . |
| 19 | yeah , yeah , I did n't know what they were like at seventy two it just said on window on one of them shops on Baldwin Lane |
| 20 | In September of 1155 he finally departed for Germany , to embark upon a further programme of reorganisation in his homeland . |
| 21 | In peacetime the town must have been a sleepy and slow-moving place , but at the start of 1945 it fairly hummed with activity , being surrounded in all directions by RAF and American Air Force stations . |
| 22 | Finance Minister Itzhak Moda'i presented Eagleburger on Jan. 22 with an estimate that Israel would need US$13,000 million in additional US aid , in excess of the annual $3,000 million it already received in US military and economic assistance , to meet Gulf war losses up to mid-February ( $3,000 million ) and the absorbtion of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union ( $10,000 million ) . |
| 23 | From about 1380 Master Hugh was in charge of the timber-work for New College , Oxford , and from 1387 he also worked for Bishop William of Wykeham [ q.v. ] at Highclere , Hampshire . |