Example sentences of "in the [adj] [adj] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean when I got , when I got here okay er when I was in the lower sixth and I like sort of got in and then like it was so weird being , I mean I 'd never been to a blokes ' school before I came here |
| 2 | ( According to some accounts , a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity . |
| 3 | Peter Alliss might have given up competitive golf in the early 1970s but he still a formidable force out on the course . |
| 4 | Both actuaries have tried to turn the Pearl in other directions , taking advantage of the personal pensions boom , and developing the group 's general insurance business , which suffered a rough ride in the early 1970s before they took charge of the group six years ago . |
| 5 | The business was set up in one upstairs room in premises on High Row and moved to Priestgate in the early 1900s where it still practises , on a much larger scale , with a staff of more than 50 . |
| 6 | Well there was no division between the , the , well if I might say so , when the there was a fire took place in Brothers in the early sixties and it was an awful unfortunate thing . |
| 7 | But when the Central Policy Review Staff ( the ‘ Think Tank ’ ) had suggested in the early eighties that they mount a full-scale investigation into the practices and abuses of the professions , they discovered that the influence of the lawyers upon Number 10 was so strong that the proposal was sat upon and then returned , with a suggestion they confine themselves to teachers and social workers . |
| 8 | Switching on the television set to watch a modern Boat Race , I recall the heated passions aroused among small boys in the early 1930s as we waited to learn whether we had picked the right shade of blue . |
| 9 | The Community Programme also met with some suspicion when it was first introduced by the MSC in the early 1980s but it proved to be a boon for many bureaux to expand their services and broaden their workforce . |
| 10 | Denis Smith says he enjoyed himself at Stoke especially in the early seventies when they had a good team … as a professional he wants Oxford to win but after the game will revert to being a stoke supporter … he says his young son also supports them |
| 11 | You were in the Upper Fourth when I left . ’ |
| 12 | A moment came in the technical run-through when it erupted . |
| 13 | It all began for Andy in the mid seventies when he staged international ‘ spectaculars ’ and England matches , mostly at Crystal Palace but also at Gateshead . |
| 14 | ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game . |
| 15 | I joined some time in the late thirties when I was a young member of the Foreign Office . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ There was some talk of replanting it in the late Sixties when you were back in London . |
| 17 | In section 6.1 , we referred to the empirical breakdown of the original Phillips curve in the late 1960s and we pointed out that one explanation for this involves bringing inflationary expectations into the argument . |
| 18 | ‘ It was in the late Seventies that we got guys like Saatchi , who looked at art calmly and coldly and treated it as an industry . |
| 19 | Calton left the Army in the late Seventies but he was nothing like the characters from the award-winning TV drama Civvies . |
| 20 | Fred Van Dyke , a pioneer of the North Shore breaks , recalls a time in the late fifties when he and Pat Curren ( Tom Curren 's father ) were sitting on the beach at Banzai and Pat said , ‘ Maybe in two thousand years this place will be surfed . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Had a bust-up in the late fifties when he beat her up so badly he was sent to jail . ’ |
| 22 | Erm I took a degree in textiles in the late fifties and I 've specialized in the design , development and manufacture of knitted outer-wear ever since . |
| 23 | Du Pont in the USA had invented nylon in the late 1930s and it was clear that the material would be of tremendous use to countries at war . |
| 24 | This inherent tendency towards corporatism seems less inevitable in the late 1980s but we will return to it below . |
| 25 | He 's not gon na get anything because it did n't finish in the first three but it was two hundred to one each way , he had two pound each way on it |
| 26 | And this was a particularly popular view in the nineteen sixties and you found lots of people arguing that the American system needed reform that here was the president who was hamstrung by congress , or in the er in the er question I 've set in the , in the programme , you know , the president is less Gulliver in Lilliput , you know , as more like Pinocchio in Lilliput erm that the president has enormous responsibilities , that the nation looks to the president , the world looks to the president but the president ca n't do anything and that you need an increase in presidential power . |
| 27 | And if you take into account that the words , A general presumption against , were common phraseology in policies in the nineteen eighties and we now use the er play against presumption we now have to use the phrase , Will not normally be permitted . |
| 28 | Mel hit a bit of a purple patch in the 1st Div if I recall … scoring in 5 out of 6 games or summink . |
| 29 | ‘ Our aim is to stay in the top six until we are in a position to catch up with our games in hand . |
| 30 | ‘ We had aimed to be in the top three and we need a real re-think . |