Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For the first ten years of its existence AEA drove forward all aspect of nuclear power in the UK , and when the Windscale AGR was started up in 1962 it was at the forefront of reactor design . |
| 3 | And doing that , to have the clutch sort of half way up in first you just sort of , you just |
| 4 | There there was a build up in that I think we we were one of the last towns to have the problem . |
| 5 | Okay so that 's nought along here going up in twos I 'll let you do that for for hundreds . |
| 6 | Spokesman Steve Parker explained : ‘ Since setting up in 1988 we have started a franchising operation . |
| 7 | Set up in 1972 it was established with £3 million to help parents with the costs of some special provisions . |
| 8 | When her brothers joined up in 1914 she took over the running of the Ferry assisted by some local boys who enjoyed the good food that Mrs Stevens provided . |
| 9 | The only snag with this last course was that when the pension was paid out in 2003 it would still be at its 1970 value . |
| 10 | Erm what I what I 'd like to , I mean I 've written out in rough you know , what I 'd like to send out to departments with the the the homework timetable and it 's just , you know I I 'm trying to say to the members of staff I do n't wan na interfere with the way that they organise their departments or their classrooms but I want to propose , you know that things like all seventh year classes should have one homework per subject per week . |
| 11 | Operating from one room above Bishopsgate Fire Station from 1968 , by the time Silverman sold out in 1976 it occupied five floors in High Holborn , employed nearly 100 staff and was earning nearly £1m. annually . |
| 12 | They used to come out in threes I think moulds . |
| 13 | On the other hand there was some investment in being able to assess performance such that it was possible to reward people for ‘ good ’ performance , and the group were not entirely able to sort this one out in that it was representing to them a dependent desire to be judged and be judged as good , and yet a refusal to accept the terms upon which judgement was being made in that they felt depersonalized by it ’ |
| 14 | It 's our work around heterosexism which makes a direct and daily challenge to them , and in a sense this work is a pure act of coming out in that it no longer allows them to treat us as one of the girls ( or boys ) who is really just like them . |
| 15 | Between 1888 and 1900 Aglen served in a number of posts in Peking , Amoy , Canton , and Tientsin ; in 1897 he was appointed to the rank of commissioner ; and shortly after the Boxer rising broke out in 1900 he was posted to Shanghai as officiating inspector-general while Hart was a refugee in the British legation under siege in Peking . |
| 16 | He was one of the very few men of science who gave a welcome , albeit qualified , to Vestiges ( 1844 ) presumably because he could see the wood for the trees ; but when the Origin of Species came out in 1859 he disliked it heartily , and became one of the most formidable opponents of Darwin and Huxley . |
| 17 | Soon after war broke out in 1914 he was asked to join ID 25 , the department of naval intelligence known as Room 40 , as a cryptographer . |
| 18 | and she could n't realize how she come out in these she went to the doctor and he says well you must be allergic to summat |
| 19 | She began to cry , thinking that if Wee Charlie was out in this he could n't swim . |
| 20 | I says I dare n't fancy going out in this I went upstairs and er , it 's always the same in n it ? |
| 21 | When Peter Adamson wrote the NI 's first editorial back in 1973 he would have found it hard to believe that things could get much worse in the field of trade — but they have . |
| 22 | If you acquired 100 shares back in 1973 you would have paid £145 . |
| 23 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 24 | Back in 1919 they made what was considered a ‘ momentous ’ decision : they chose to market their wines under their own brand name . |
| 25 | Back in 1961 it had been , briefly , a very famous line , and a very tragic line too . |
| 26 | Back in 1949 it cost a minimum of four shillings for a mention in the In Memoriam section . |
| 27 | Back in 1951 it was 3.8% . |
| 28 | Over the same period America 's reserves have doubled , to $74 billion , to put it in second place ; back in 1988 it was in only sixth place . |
| 29 | If you go around in threes it 's useless . |
| 30 | He 's got no money to spend , and when he turned a losing team around in 1983 he had four or five exceptional and emerging players in his squad . |