Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [num] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Thomas Hardy was given the freedom of the borough in 1910 he made a comment of particular interest to family historians : he said that ‘ of the shops as I first recollect them [ he was born in 1840 ] not a single owner remains ; only in two or three instances does even the name remain … |
| 2 | WHEN Fattorini & Sons , of Birmingham , were commissioned to fashion a trophy for a new competition to be run by the Essex Football Association in 1882 they really went to town . |
| 3 | After his retirement as secretary of the English Association in 1950 he spent four years in India , encouraging the growth of youth hostels in that country , and subsequently paid two extended visits to Africa for the same purpose . |
| 4 | Walker was one of the most active members of the steering committee appointed in 1853 to establish the museum ; and as secretary of the British Association in 1859–61 he helped organize the Oxford meeting of 1860 , which inaugurated the museum but became famous for its discussion of Darwinism . |
| 5 | " In the organization too there were exponents of continued cooperation ; although Younger worked to defeat coalition in 1922 he did not rule it out as a future possibility . |
| 6 | After Rizzio 's murder in 1566 it became the residence of Mary , Queen of Scots . |
| 7 | Before regaining his seat in 1811 he viewed the Peninsular war theatre . |
| 8 | After losing his Auckland seat in 1975 he moved to Christchurch and , after a series of manual jobs , trained as a psychiatric nurse . |
| 9 | On the weight-loss programme in Part-Two you should not spend any more than usual on your week 's shopping . |
| 10 | Jerry also earned three full International caps for Eire ( qualifying on his father 's nationality ) , but once the Palace began to lose their way his laconic and delicate style became on occasions at least , something of a luxury our side could ill-afford , and when he became a free agent in 1985 he chose to move over to Chelsea . |
| 11 | Association with the cloth trade was a necessary step towards getting to the top in Coventry , and when wealthy baker Thomas Astelen became mayor in 1529 he was described as a clothier . |
| 12 | ‘ Despite a disabling stroke in 1970 he continued painting and , surprisingly , his work acquired an increased vigour ; he adopted a more varied palette and made use of more vivid colours . |
| 13 | Following a second stroke in 1892 he retired , and he died 15 June 1893 in Torquay . |
| 14 | When Susan Einzig was appointed to the illustration department in 1946 she saw instantly how destructive Minton 's influence could be , for the drawback of his teaching was that it did little to encourage the discovery of a personal style . |
| 15 | After she retired from the headship of her department in 1920 she gave much time to various women 's groups and to societies for the promotion of women 's interests . |
| 16 | Spanish hostility was obviously a handicap to it , but when the charter was declared void in 1624 it was mainly because the Company was bankrupt ; the Spanish objection was to the colony rather than to the Company , and the colony was allowed to survive . |
| 17 | In an interview in 1975 he declared that during his Persepolis party , " the whole world , from the United Nations to every capital , paid tribute to Cyrus and his kingdom … |
| 18 | In a timed swim across Honolulu Harbour in 1911 he covered 100 yards in 55.4 seconds , shattering the existing record by 4.6 seconds . |
| 19 | In an article in The English Review in 1913 she argued that the legislation had been carried by hysterical stories circulated by ‘ neuropaths and prudes ’ about the entrapment of white women . |
| 20 | Extension to more complicated cases is not difficult ( a ) Extension of the Cayley-Hamilton theorem In 1.17 we showed that a matrix A satisfies its own characteristic equation , i.e. unc irrespective of the nature of the eigenvalues . |
| 21 | With the appearance of his novel Vainglory in 1915 he styled himself Ronald Firbank for the first time , signalling the emergence of the mature writer . |
| 22 | Following his marriage in 1892 he left England on his third and final East African tour . |
| 23 | He journeyed throughout Europe and after his marriage in 1913 he went to Egypt for a four month honeymoon . |
| 24 | He journeyed throughout Europe and after his marriage in 1913 he went to Egypt for a four month honeymoon . |
| 25 | My grandfather , George Hey ( 1854–1916 ) , worked in a Thurlstone cloth mill as a dresser or finisher when he was a young man , but on the occasion of his second marriage in 1900 he gave his occupation as waggoner . |
| 26 | Until her marriage in 1903 she worked in post offices in Buckinghamshire , Essex , and Hampshire . |
| 27 | Called to the Bar in 1955 he became a QC in 1972 , MP for Tunbridge Wells in 1974 , and attorney-general in 1987 . |
| 28 | Since its inception in 1991 it has had ECU2.9 million to spend in order to increase the knowledge of the culture and heritage of the Community countries and to support artistic innovation . |
| 29 | On his return in 680 he was deprived of his relics by Iurminburg , imprisoned for nine months by Ecgfrith , and then expelled for a second time from the kingdom . |
| 30 | On his return in 1896 he attended Hastings Art School , progressing in 1897 to the Slade School of Art , London , in the great days of Frederick Brown , Henry Tonks , and P. Wilson Steer [ qq.v . ] . |