Example sentences of "[num] and [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout his life Blumlein was a trustworthy and loyal man with a passionate interest in the arts , music , and aviation — he held a private pilot 's licence from 1929 and often flew a biplane or Moth . |
| 2 | Monckton Milnes , a good memorialist but a forgettable poet , visited the lake in 1838 and later wrote a poem about the tragedy , taking a more honour ably sentimental line towards it than had the morbid locals : |
| 3 | Greece applied for membership in 1975 and finally became a Member State on 1 January 1981 . |
| 4 | Cook was appointed agent for Nile passenger traffic by the Khedive of Egypt in 1870 and eventually had a fleet of seventeen large vessels and about thirty-three smaller dahabeeyahs and pinnaces . |
| 5 | She completed victory by taking the tiebreak 7-5 but not before she lost her serve to 5-5 and then saved a set point at 5-6 . |
| 6 | But then again , the Golden Höfner was the flagship of the company 's electric hollow-bodied range between ‘ 59 and ‘ 62 and naturally became a platform for showing just what could be done . |
| 7 | Ted joined the Palace from Hull City in December 1911 and immediately scored a hat-trick on his debut ( one of only four Palace men ever to achieve this feat ) at West Ham on 30 December ( 6–1 ) , and then repeated the feat a week later when Bristol Rovers came to The Palace ( 4–1 ) . |
| 8 | John Glendenen was dropped at gully on two and also survived a couple of injudicious waves outside the off stump . |
| 9 | His father is a veterinary surgeon , and he himself assisted his father for a year or two and then became a groom . |
| 10 | His most important contact was Hayling , who had left Ford in 1983 and now had a job monitoring multinational companies in the GLC 's Industry and Employment Branch . |