Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [Wh adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was some time after eleven when noises were made about turning in , though as everyone stood up , to her surprise , though not anyone else 's , Travis said he was n't ready for bed yet and was going out . |
| 2 | It was , of course , a nuisance and particularly so after 1166 when Becket took refuge in the territory of King Louis , adding a further irritant to the permanently fragile relationship between the two kings . |
| 3 | Its leaders had retained a distance from the perceived excesses of militancy that began to surface and gain momentum after 1917 when opposition to the war mounted and hopeful eyes turned to Russia ( for good accounts of this period see Cole 1969 and Miliband 1973 ) . |
| 4 | Such conflict became increasingly likely after 1920 when unemployment rose as British trade failed to recover to its pre-war level . |
| 5 | Apart from a brief period after 1964 when prescription charges were removed , these charges have remained ever since and been increased regularly . |
| 6 | It was just after seven-thirty when Rachel arrived at the factory 's main entrance . |
| 7 | It was just after seven-thirty when Sara woke . |
| 8 | For this reason among others the organizational theories of the founders of the general unions of 1889 bore little fruit until after 1911 when urges towards revolutionary amalgamation , industrial unionism or the more general form of the later Transport and General Workers began to give the ideals of Thorne , Mann and Tillett some kind of practical reality . |
| 9 | It probably dates from after 1864 when Henry Pease turned his attention to the gardens of the mansion he had been enlarging and improving since 1846 . |
| 10 | It was after two when Carrington arrived , but the governor 's house was still bustling . |
| 11 | Henderson drew a sharp contrast with the years after 1945 when Britain was still a major and respected force in world affairs , the dominant power in the Middle East down to the time of Suez , the second most important power in the Far East at least down to the 1954 Geneva Conference . |
| 12 | Furthermore , in the period after 1944 when selection for secondary schools through the 11 + examination predominated , girls ' 11 + performances were weighted differently to boys ' performances so that girls achieved fewer places than their examination results indicated , and boys achieved more places than their results merited . |
| 13 | His irritation at this failure to control his warring vassals was further increased in the spring of 1188 when Richard , no longer distracted by rebellion , launched his Brabançons in a massive attack on Toulouse . |
| 14 | During the summer of 1943 when wartime industrial production in the USA was nearing its peak , a wave of absenteeism swept through women working in key areas of the US war effort to the extent that the FBI were called in to investigate whether some elaborate form of Axis sabotage was afoot . |
| 15 | It will be the city 's biggest Rugby League gate , beating the previous best of 6,800 when Hetherington 's men beat Widnes at Bramall Lane in 1989 . |
| 16 | A major turning-point came at the start of 1985 when Peter Walker announced that there would be no power cuts at all in the coming year , however long the strike lasted . |
| 17 | Raymond Radiguet was a youth of 12 when Modigliani painted him , a brilliant schoolboy who had won a scholarship to a Paris Lycée and began coming in daily to the city from the suburbs . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the Treasurer suggested that the worst was probably over , and that the recession would not be as deep as that of 1982/83 when GDP had declined for four consecutive quarters and both inflation and unemployment had exceeded 10 per cent . |
| 19 | Willie Allen and Jim Baxter clashed on many occasions but by far the most bizarre was the Scottish cup final replay of 1963 when Baxter played an influential role in Rangers 3–0 victory over Celtic . |
| 20 | He retired from active service at the end of the war but was recalled in the early summer of 1648 when Parliament found itself facing a serious mutiny in the fleet . |
| 21 | Referring to the last time a conservative government led by Mr Chirac shared power with Mr Mitterrand , he said : ‘ We need a code to avoid relapsing into the problems of 1986-88 when France showed up [ at international meetings ] like a two-headed monster . |
| 22 | Undoubtedly however the days of wine and roses came in the season of 1990–91 when Pat was riding for Noel Furlong and Andy Geraghty . |
| 23 | Eckholm ( 1976 : 55 ) recounts the case in Ethiopia before the land reform of 1975 when peasants , forced to work on a reafforestation project , planted the seedlings upside-down as a protest against oppressive land tenure conditions . |
| 24 | It is unique in being the site of the terrible Battle of 1066 when William the Conqueror defeated King Harold and his Saxon army . |
| 25 | It began when a respected local historian , Norman Scarfe , claimed in the East Anglia Daily Times that , in the rumour-filled summer of 1940 when Britain faced an imminent Nazi invasion , a War Office file on the evacuation of the civilian population from the hamlet was mysteriously sealed until the next century . |
| 26 | ‘ I remember the winter of 1962–3 when Feethams was frozen over from Boxing Day until March and the pile up of fixtures was horrendous . |
| 27 | Before the first oil shock of 1973/4 when prices quadrupled — conservation was a seldom used word with little media appeal which meant curbing our voracious appetites for energy , to slow the depletion rate of finite and diminishing fossil fuel resources . |
| 28 | Chlorine was first used to treat water after the Maidstone epidemic of 1897–8 when hop-pickers contaminated spring water . |
| 29 | This is an imaginary trip during the summer of 1957 when steam still ruled on British Rail metals . |
| 30 | the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 when Guy Fawkes and others plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament . |