Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up till about 1980 I had little experience of float fishing for big bream , and I do n't recall ever having read anything on the subject . |
| 2 | As a child of the Thirties I heard much talk of J.P.M. and Fred Shaw ( the NCLC Organiser ) , Plebs and the Railway Service Journal — and the Manchester Guardian — were as much a part of my youthful literary life as Mickey Mouse and Film Fun . |
| 3 | In 1903 he sold four sets of kites to the Admiralty ; in 1905 the army ordered kites , and engaged Cody to instruct the Royal Engineers in their operation . |
| 4 | On 17 July 1054 he consecrated Godric abbot of Winchcombe , having held the abbey himself since the death of Abbot Godwin in 1053 . |
| 5 | In November 1941 they became 101 Troop of 6 Commando , with Lieutenant Smith in command , and were attached to the naval shore base HMS Lynx , from which they operated , with MTBs , submarines , or other carriers taking them to the area of their target beaches . |
| 6 | In 1920 he became honorary director of the department of applied optics , National Institute for Medical Research , retiring during World War II . |
| 7 | By the time he was twenty he was working with his father on the construction of the Thames Tunnel ; in 1831 he was put in charge of the suspension bridge at Clifton ( q.v. ) which he had designed ; and in 1833 he became chief engineer of the Great Western Railway , which was largely his brainchild . |
| 8 | Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m . |
| 9 | In the summer of 1981 I investigated this pattern of variation by surveying seven towns scattered throughout Britain : Bristol , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Manchester , Newcastle upon Tyne and Sheffield . |
| 10 | From Hut 5 he had thirty yards of snow space to cross . |
| 11 | In 1992 it made pre-tax profits of £4.6m on sales of £80m . |
| 12 | By 1774 she had 58 ships of the line : she is said to have possessed 72 in 1789 . |
| 13 | Paradoxically , in 1987 we imported 12,000 tonnes of waste glass , while recycling only 13 per cent of the glass we throw away . |
| 14 | On 22 December 1631 he became non-resident governor of Jersey , and through the 1630s sat on several administrative commissions . |
| 15 | In 1795 he published Forty-eight views of the Lake District and Four Views of Wales , and in 1796 a Series of picturesque views of the North of England . |
| 16 | By 1839 the mill was in the hands of Richard Hone and in 1840 he installed some form of steam engine , probably to power such auxiliary equipment as a winnower and bolting machine . |
| 17 | A federal appeals court judge here has affirmed a 1990 lower court decision and ruled that Koons illegally copied a photograph from a greeting card when in 1987 he made four sculptures of a couple holding eight German shepherd puppies . |
| 18 | In 1986 he became general manager of the Care Fore Group 's residential and nursing homes . |
| 19 | In 1935 he became literary editor of the Listener , a post he held for twenty-four years . |
| 20 | By 1737 it included 33 ships of the line . |
| 21 | For instance , between 1972 and 1982 I caught 35392 hoverflies of 89 species in the Malaise trap , but seven species accounted for more than two-thirds of the catch and 35 species were each represented by fewer than 10 individuals . |
| 22 | In 1721 she had 124 ships of the line and 105 smaller vessels , of which roughly a quarter had been built since 1714 . |
| 23 | ‘ During our Everest expedition in 1953 we had vast quantities of firewood at base camp and never thought about the problems , but environmental consciousness has grown enormously over the last 30 years or so . ’ |
| 24 | During our Everest expedition in 1953 we had vast quantities of firewood at base camp and never once thought about the environmental problems |
| 25 | In Edward III 's wars in Scotland in the 1330s he made great use of hobelars and mounted archers who were paid more and required more expensive equipment than foot soldiers . |
| 26 | In addition , in 1926 he became general manager of their Preston works and in 1928 of the Stafford works also . |
| 27 | In 1773 she had 66 ships of the line : by 1780 , when she had 81 , she was stronger at sea than ever before in her history . |
| 28 | In 1889 she became general secretary of the Guild , which then had fifty-one branches and a membership of between 1,700 and 1,800 . |
| 29 | Between 1906 and 1936 she published five volumes of poetry , seven novels , and a number of short stories . |
| 30 | Yet twenty years later , largely as a result of the work of Maurepas , an energetic Secretary of State , she had nearly 50 ships of the line and was once more clearly the second-greatest European naval power The war of 1744–48 with Great Britain meant fairly heavy losses ; but by 1754 she possessed 57 ships of the line and 24 frigates . |