Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July 1972 I spent a whole afternoon discussing teaching and children with the headmaster of what corresponded roughly to a middle school . |
| 2 | In 1972 I suggested a fresh categorization of the processes involved to take into account an additional meaning of ‘ propagate ’ ; namely to rear to sexual maturity . |
| 3 | In 1876 he took a similar position at the Blaenavon ironworks in Monmouthshire under the management of Edward Martin . |
| 4 | In 1876 he built a high water tower , topped for a time with a telescope . |
| 5 | He was also a self-educated man , with a particular interest in astronomy , and in 1933 he discovered a white spot on the surface of Saturn . |
| 6 | By the age of twenty-one he had a managerial post in charge of fifteen people . |
| 7 | In 1867 he accepted a timely invitation to return to his former employer , and in the reassuring familiarity of his parents ' home in Bockhampton he was able to assess his career , temporarily rededicating himself to architecture while continuing to hope for success as a writer , if not of poetry , of popular novels . |
| 8 | In 167 he celebrated a three-day triumph . |
| 9 | At the age of six I compiled a personal magazine every week . |
| 10 | At thirteen I bought a tuppenny packet |
| 11 | In 1877 she opened a small chapel in her house in Cottenham Park . |
| 12 | In 1924 she published a short memoir of her husband . |
| 13 | In 1979 she made a new will ; after making changes to some specific bequests , she again appointed her husband to receive the income from her father 's estate . |
| 14 | In 1991 we achieved a combined profit of £540,500 ( although down significantly from that of £1 million in 1990 ) and this was made possible without any contribution by RIBA Magazines Ltd. which broke-even . |
| 15 | Congress has always been better staffed than its counterparts elsewhere in the world and by 1979 it had a total staff of 23,056 . |
| 16 | In the summer of 1991 he proposed a new party programme which , in effect , would have brought it much closer into line with a social democratic party , competing with others on Western lines . |
| 17 | In 1892 he formed a limited liability company to take over his business.The memorandum of association of the new company was signed by Salomon , his wife and his five children , each signatory being issued with one share . |
| 18 | On June 10 he detailed a tortuous series of corrupt dealings between Papandreou and himself allegedly dating back to a threat made in 1985 by Papandreou 's Pasok party to nationalize the Bank of Crete . |
| 19 | With the introduction of the Model Engineer and Amateur Electrician magazine in 1898 he became a regular contributor and was a founder-member of the Society of Model Engineers . |
| 20 | In 1888 he joined a Wild West circus and toured the United States for about two years , then sailed to England and established a music-hall act as a sharpshooter . |
| 21 | In 1888 he published a definitive edition of his own texts in Hymns Original and Translated . |
| 22 | In 1333 he made a rare journey abroad to deliver the new archbishop , John Stratford , his pallium . |
| 23 | Furthermore , in 1648 it passed a restrictive Blasphemy Act , which threatened those convicted of denying the central tenets of Christianity with death , and those dissenting from orthodox Calvinist theology with imprisonment . |
| 24 | On the twenty eight of September nineteen eighty eight she had a major operation on her left wrist . |
| 25 | In the autumn of 1984 I received a personal letter from Andy Norman . |
| 26 | In August 1975 she produced a consultative document which was regarded by the medical profession at large — although socialist supporters in that profession did not share the view — as a declaration of war . |
| 27 | In 1969 they took a hard line . |
| 28 | In 1984 he married a French woman , and the following year travelled to France to try his hand at the colour photography which seemed so popular in European magazines . |
| 29 | In 1920 it routed a Polish army to the suburbs of Warsaw and at the end of the following year launched an invasion of the Menshevik Republic of Georgia after its government had quelled an internal Bolshevik uprising . |
| 30 | He had become the representative voice of the nation under threat , and in the early months of 1940 he wrote a patriotic poem , " Defence of the Islands " , to accompany an exhibition of British war photographs at the New York World 's Fair . |