Example sentences of "[adv] in [num] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when her father , the widely respected leader of the Welsh radicals in Parliament , died suddenly in 1892 she found to her horror that he had left a crippling burden of debt and that his principal business enterprise , the Dillwyn spelter works at Llansamlet , Swansea , was on the verge of bankruptcy . |
| 2 | So in 1948 he went to Australia on a government-sponsored scheme , known as " Big Brother " . |
| 3 | Sandys , when Minister of Supply , had already been instrumental in deciding to develop Blue Streak as the replacement for the V-bombers , and so in 1957 he saw no requirement for either Skybolt or Polaris . |
| 4 | So in 1959 we moved to a large , ark-like Victorian farmhouse in Hampshire which I share today with our vast collection of children 's toys . |
| 5 | So in 1869 he came back to England and went to live in a large house in the country . |
| 6 | He found a place for a year in the household of a wealthy London merchant where he started to translate the New Testament ; it became clear , however , that there was no possibility of printing it in England , so in 1524 he left for Germany , never to return . |
| 7 | So in 1901 he decided to emigrate with his wife and two children to Australia , where he became the first full-time missioner of the Adult Deaf Society of Victoria , which celebrated its centenary in 1984 . |
| 8 | None the less in 1329 he did simple homage ( all that was asked of him for the moment ) at Amiens , following this up with liege homage in 1331 . |
| 9 | When this firm closed down in 1843 he transferred to the locomotive drawing office of the Railway Foundry works , Leeds , of Messrs Shepherd & Todd , where he became acting chief draughtsman . |
| 10 | Table 6.5 reveals a slight contraction in this sector during the 1970s , but nevertheless in 1980 it still represented over a third of the economically active population for the region as a whole . |
| 11 | The constable 's traditional competence lay in military and chivalric matters , and thus in 1478 it was Gloucester , ‘ in his own person ’ , who dealt with the refusal of four new knights to pay the customary fees to the officers of arms . |
| 12 | The constable 's traditional competence lay in military and chivalric matters , and thus in 1478 it was Gloucester , ‘ in his own person ’ , who dealt with the refusal of four new knights to pay the customary fees to the officers of arms . |
| 13 | Thus in 1296 he consulted his council of magnates who advised him that a certain papal provision would prejudice the crown ; and in 1299 he contested the pope 's claim to sovereignty over Scotland as a threat to the dignity of his crown . |
| 14 | Thus in 1428 it suited the Hungarians to make a pact with the Turks , who were then fighting the Venetians in Greece . |
| 15 | Already in 1610 he was one of ‘ a select number of the Lower House ’ who met with the lord treasurer , Robert Cecil , first Earl of Salisbury [ q.v. ] , son of his father 's patron , to discuss impositions . |
| 16 | Already in 1914 he was exhorting the readers of Poetry ( Chicago ) : |
| 17 | Already in 1928 he was protesting that his own pronouncements at the time of the Imagist manifesto were tailored to the specific needs of 1914 , and should not be taken as binding fourteen years later . |
| 18 | Finally in 1979 he was appointed department manager of the Colchester & East Essex Co-operative Society Ltd . |
| 19 | Meanwhile in 1558 he wrote the Appellation to the Nobility and Estates of Scotland , a work which , taken in conjunction with his Letter addressed to the Commonalty of Scotland , shows how far his mind was moving towards a positive theory of the rights of resistance in God 's cause . |
| 20 | Before moving to London permanently in 1757 he produced A Plan of the River Nene , from Thrapston to Northampton , with the Mills and Locks necessary for the Navigation ( 1754 ) , and A Plan of the Road from Towcester in the County of Northampton , to Weston Gate in the County of Oxford ( 1756 ) . |
| 21 | Formed nationally in 1900 it had played no role in pioneering local labour representation ; not until the early interwar years did it emerge with quite remarkable rapidity as the dominant political force in West Ham . |
| 22 | Early in 1963 she published a novel , The Bell Jar , under the pseudonym ‘ Victoria Lucas ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ The means of accomplishing these points did not immediately present themselves : but early in 1765 it occurred to me that , if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids , would immediately rush into the empty vessel , and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium : and if that vessel were kept cool by an injection , or otherwise , more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed ’ . |
| 24 | He says because my father died early in 1937 he 's never been honoured for his work . |
| 25 | He was commissioned almost at once , and early in 1792 he returned to the Foudroyant as first lieutenant ; in April of the same year he was promoted master and commander , being given the Pigmy of 14 guns ; and in 1790 he was made post . |
| 26 | Early in 1909 she was imprisoned in Holloway , but rapidly released when the authorities became aware of her powerful connections . |
| 27 | Hoping that , in the changed climate of opinion in England , he would soon be granted a pardon , Kinloch returned secretly to London , where for some time he remained under cover until early in 1823 he returned clandestinely to Scotland . |
| 28 | Early in 1916 he was commissioned as a camouflage officer in the Royal Engineers and served in France , Italy , and Belgium , reaching the rank of captain . |
| 29 | Debating parliamentary reform in the Dail early in 1983 they were complaining of being " almost totally engaged in working for their constituents " , " whistling with exhaustion under the sheer burden of constituency work " . |
| 30 | That means that the reduction in the rent applied throughout the years down to the end of 1944 , but early in 1945 it is plain that the flats were fully let , and , indeed the rents received from them ( many of them not being affected by the Rent Restrictions Acts ) , were increased beyond the figure at which it was originally contemplated that they would be let . |