Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | And for a few years it had just about done so . |
2 | It was now ten years since he had died , and during the first year she had herself pushed the handcart out almost every day for , except for young Ben , she was on her own . |
3 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
4 | And she said last year I 'd pulled that on the furniture , and like the first year you 're old enough to really wrap and there was a tap on the window and Theresa went out and she went , and come back and she went oh my God Father Christmas is out there and she said |
5 | For 594 Fredegar notes a war between the Franks and the Bretons , and under the following year he mentions a victory over the Warni , who are probably to be equated with the Thuringians . |
6 | Merceron 's political career began in 1787 , and within a few years he had became a vestryman , a tax commissioner , and a justice of the peace . |
7 | This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 . |
8 | Students follow a general course in their first year , and in the final year they select one of three specialist areas of study . |
9 | When Harold Smith , the brother of F.E. , was asked for advice in organization by Huddersfield Unionists , he delivered them a lecture on Liverpool methods , and in the following year they elected F.E. Smith as their President to carry through reforms that would make Huddersfield like Liverpool . |
10 | Later , and in recognition of her own achievements , Sophie Green was awarded a scholarship to attend a summer course at Bryn Mawr College , Pennsylvania in 1928 and in the following year she became a co-opted member of the Kettering Education Committee . |
11 | In 1697 she made a tour of the north and of Kent and in the following year she made her ‘ Great Journey to Newcastle and to Cornwall ’ . |
12 | In 1792 , however , Lewis was elected surveyor to Christ 's Hospital and in the following year he was appointed to the corresponding post at the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals ; and from then on these institutional responsibilities appear to have formed the principal element in his career . |
13 | In 1805 he collected in the Faeroes and in the following year he was commissioned by the Danish government to collect in Greenland , where he passed eight summers and seven winters . |
14 | During this three-year period they applied two dressings of farmyard manure and in the intervening year they applied an indigenous legume crop as green manure . |
15 | Hairdressers and make-up artists know who 's had what done and where , who 's had whom , when and how , and with what , where and how many times , and in the thirteen years I 've known Lynette , I have never known her betray a confidence , so I tell her what the lump is . |
16 | At Christmas she fell ill , and in the New Year she was worse . |
17 | That was something to cheer Christmas 1945 , but not quite enough and in the new year I was back again , once more taking the No. 2 bus from Summertown to Carfax . |
18 | The people in in , in districts like that , they seem to be perennially voting , forever voting and in the blank year they 're voting for county council elections . |
19 | Because in the first and second and in the third year we had very good staff who took a pride in the school . |
20 | ‘ In the first year we were frightened of him , in the second year we got used to him , and in the third year we really liked him . ’ |
21 | In November 1251 Henry III granted to the men of Archenfield in Herefordshire freedom from the Forest jurisdiction , and in the next year he ordered the sheriff : |
22 | Now then , I 've made , oh er before I go into the capital gains , er capital allowances you can claim a proportion of the capital allowances on a reducing balance , so er if a car for example costs you five thousand pounds , you 'd actually be allowed twenty five percent in the first year , the twenty five percent would be reduced from five thousand , and in the next year you 'd get twenty five percent off your balance until the five thousand pounds had been allowed against your profits . |
23 | I find them all delightful in the first and second year , something happens between the second year and the fourth year , and in the fourth year they seem to have lost interest in academic things . |
24 | And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out … |
25 | By 1815 , a brief postwar upsurge in trade had been and gone and in the same year they went bankrupt . |
26 | In 1885 John became director of the Comedy Theatre , Manchester , and in the same year he began teaching children to dance . |
27 | Also during his retirement , in 1838 , Foulston published a volume of his designs , The Public Buildings erected in the West of England , as designed by J. Foulston , and in the same year he became a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects . |
28 | This marriage , of which there were no children , was dissolved in 1924 and in the same year he married Edith Dora Hodges , singer , daughter of Joseph Hodges , butcher of Tooting ; they had three sons and one daughter . |
29 | In 1885 he became a founder-member of council of the Manchester Photographic Society , where he met some of the most notable pioneers of early photographic techniques , and in the same year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society . |
30 | In 1777 he became a partner of Henry Park [ q.v. ] , who was also a surgeon to the Infirmary , and in the same year he moved to Basnett Street . |