Example sentences of "[num] and [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The school librarian , Mr Les Rae , was approached by MEP in December 1985 and asked to pilot the EDLIB Software which had been developed locally . |
| 2 | PT Ltd claimed that it was entitled to set off the tax that should have been deducted against the rent due on 25 March 1991 and failed to pay the rent . |
| 3 | Even so , he was defeated in the City parliamentary election of 1734 and failed to make the opposition slate in 1740–1 . |
| 4 | He was chaplain to Archbishop Randall Davidson ( later Baron Davidson of Lambeth , q.v. ) from 1911 and helped to revise the coronation service , but was not closely involved in church affairs . |
| 5 | EC Foreign Ministers met in The Hague on Sept. 3 and decided to hold the peace conference proposed on Aug. 27 as early as Sept. 7 . |
| 6 | ‘ And so it came about that all over the land children were assembled in groups of 40 and made to learn the facts set out in the books written by Messrs Hall & Stevens , Warner & Martin , Durrell & Palmer , and Potter and Ridout . |
| 7 | Aboard an RS250 in Samson Sharp colours , Zeelenberg won two European races in 1989 and began to attract the interest of factory bosses with his determined early grand prix . |
| 8 | But a council report claims BT then jacked up the cost to £3 million and refused to finish the job unless they were paid . |
| 9 | " Land and Liberty " became the name of an amorphous political movement which operated in various parts of the Russian Empire between 1861 and 1863 and strove to convert the radicalism engendered by the emancipation into action . |