Example sentences of "in [adj] and [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | A new name , that of the 38-year old Michael Holroyd Smith , appeared in the technical press of Europe and America in 1885 and stayed in the news into the next century . |
2 | He was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress in 1885 and presided at the 1886 and 1893 sessions . |
3 | Some Yakuts split a dog in half and walked between the pieces with a lump of earth in their mouths , saying that if they did not observe the vow they would be split in two and buried in the earth . |
4 | Caradon was bought from publishers Reed International for £61m in 1985 and came to the stock market in June 1987 with an initial market value of £134m . |
5 | Pearce Print was set up in the centre of Northampton in 1979 and moved to the new Moulton Park Industrial Estate until changing its location to Kettering in 1991 . |
6 | Bill joined the BBC as a radio engineer 's assistant in 1932 and went to the fledgling Television service a few years later . |
7 | A long-serving member of the British Pottery Managers ' Association , Roy was President in 1984 and served on the executive committee for eight years . |
8 | General Booth visited Portadown in 1902 and spoke in the Town Hall on ‘ The Lessons of my Life ’ . |
9 | Bolton was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1914 and served on the council of the London Topographical Society ( 1918–27 ) . |
10 | By studying in the evenings at Burslem Art School , Emberton won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1911 and worked for the London architects Trehearne & Norman , 1913–14 . |
11 | However , economic activity began to slow in mid-1990 and stagnated in the fourth quarter . |
12 | He knocked it back in one and gasped with the pleasure of it . |
13 | Bill Wood , of Woodhouse Lane , Bishop Auckland , transferred from the Metropolitan police force in 1951 and served in the traffic branch , communications , control room and at Darlington . |
14 | A.C.D. de Graaff arrived as Governor-General late in 1926 and appealed to the nationalists for cooperation while some Dutch officials endeavoured to counteract their countrymen 's reactionary spirit by forming De Stuuw ( Forward Movement ) . |
15 | He succeeded his father as a JP for Cheshire in 1619 and served on the bench until his removal , as part of a purge by George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , on 26 October 1626 . |
16 | Gavin Dalzell of Lesmahagow copied his machine in 1846 and passed on the details to so many people that for more than fifty years he was generally regarded as the inventor of the bicycle . |
17 | The second area where Teetotalism strengthened the Anglo-American bond lay in visits between leaders from both countries and this was especially the case with the Rev. Lyman Beecher who visited England in 1846 and stayed with the publisher , John Cassell , in his St John s Wood house . |
18 | He joined the Durham force in 1956 and started on the beat in Darlington before being promoted through the ranks to reach his present status in 1989 . |
19 | Robert Key , a teacher by profession , entered Parliament in 1983 and sat on the Select Committee on Education , Science and the Arts . |
20 | He toured Britain in 1955 and competed in the British Grand Prix at Aintree but had to retire after 34 laps in his Cooper-Bristol that was just not up to the task of Formula One racing against the likes of Moss and Fangio 's Mercedes . |
21 | He joined the Liberal Party in 1968 and served on the Young Liberals ' executive committee . |
22 | Mr Brandreth was President of the Oxford Union in 1968 and stayed on the following year , a high profile position which may explain why Mr Clinton remembers him . |
23 | She was rebuilt into her present form at Cowlairs works in 1915 and served on the continent during the First World War . |
24 | Moved to Cornwall in 1927 and came to the notice of Stanhope Forbes … |
25 | The hospital was originally founded in 1739 and came under the patronage of Queen Charlotte in 1804 . |