Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] [adj] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I happen to know , from a friend of mine , that Robert Trivers , long before he was the great evolutionary biologist he is today , when he was an illustrator of children 's books , argued the whole thing to and fro with a friend of mine who was a Freudian analyist and he tells me that in the beginning all they talked about was Freud . |
| 2 | " In the year 1929 I used two rock-crystal vases in which were branches of white orchids , but those days are gone I fear for ever , and a few white carnations have to suffice now . |
| 3 | It was about this time that he started to court Sylvestre , and in the year 1583 she agreed to marry him . |
| 4 | In the period 1920–6 she brought within her general theory of ideals several theories which until that time had been seen as independent . |
| 5 | But , in fact , the tables in the report show that while leukaemia rates for 1951–58 were 83 per cent of the national average , in the period 1971–1978 they had risen to 100 per cent . |
| 6 | In the period 1637–1767 it furnished accommodation for smaller diets of representatives of the Confederate Forest Cantons ; its assembly room still boasts a handsome tiled heating stove of the period . |