Example sentences of "a [noun sg] in the [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 For a period in the 1950s she flirted with Roman Catholicism , and whether her Catholic point of view made her see moral issues exclusively within a religious framework , or whether she simply did not share the same experience as English-born-and-raised writers who faced the dissolution of their class system is difficult to judge .
2 At the close of the seventeenth century , however , towns and villages in certain industrial regions started to grow , and despite a setback in the 1720s they continued to expand at an astonishing rate throughout each decade of the eighteenth century .
3 He had played the first round , but before he had a chance even to hit a ball in the second he was out of the pre-qualifier , suffering from injuries he had received in a car accident with his caddie .
4 In one case you are a pupil in the second you are a friend .
5 Like when my mother was a kid in the 1930's they did n't used to use anaesthesia for taking out your first set of teeth if they were to take them out , up in the round Newcastle .
6 As a schoolboy in the 1940s I learnt a folk song with the verse :
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