Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Indochina , France became embroiled in one of the most complex of the post-war colonial conflicts , but it took time to accept that the days of European colonial rule were numbered . |
| 2 | But her character became embroiled in one of the show 's least likely relationships — which kept viewers hooked and earned her an extended contract . |
| 3 | As a trans-Pyrenean kingdom , Navarre lasted from its foundation in the ninth century until the sixteenth century , when it got broken in two , Spanish Navarre becoming Spanish in 1512 while French or Basse-Navarre was incorporated into the French crown in 1589 , when its current king became king of France as Henri IV . |
| 4 | The firm of Wilkes , Son and Cassey ceased trading in 1926 , the business and premises were purchased by The Salisbury Co-operative Society Limited who then only stocked larger items of ironmongery and added a furniture department on the first floor . |
| 5 | Mr Spong is currently overseeing the closure of the Interchurch Media Programme ( IMP ) , which he helped to found in 1977 . |
| 6 | Whether , of course , I would have taken this view were I to have had someone in my squadron who turned LMF is open to question , When I reflect on the young aircrew that I helped to train in 1940 at Kinloss , some 10 years younger than myself , I marvel that the conversation stage was the last stint before they were to confront a highly lethal opponent . |
| 7 | Table IV gives rates of self reported smoking in 1989 and 1990 among pupils who were never smokers in 1988 . |
| 8 | The downfall of Gen Noriega can be traced to the brutal killing of the opposition leader , Hugo Spadafora , found beheaded in 1985 . |
| 9 | The fluoridation plant in Watford , also showing signs of age , stopped operating in 1989 . |
| 10 | If anything , they would have been better off contributing less prize money ( which they tried to do in 1991 but were not allowed to reduce what they had already promised ) and used it instead to go into the appearance money pool , which will still have to be funded . |
| 11 | A number of deaf men attempted to enlist for the Army , but many were rejected on grounds of deafness , including four who tried to enlist in one day at an enlisting station in Wales . |
| 12 | The effort of getting up the third and fourth flights , which I tried to manage in one go , muddled me somehow . |
| 13 | The airport at Lukla , which Hillary helped to build in 1964 to fly in materials to build a hospital , has since become the most important mountain airfield in Nepal catering for vast numbers of trekkers and mountaineers . |
| 14 | With Miss Stocks 's support , the Cassell Trust grant was renewed yet again , but Miss Green appeared to have lost her former enthusiasm for breaking new ground and she concentrated her efforts in established WEA branches with the exception of Corby which she helped to re-establish in 1936 . |
| 15 | The echo of that street-market record stall still lingers in Street 's insatiable appetite for new music , for , unlike many in-demand producers , Stephen is not of the opinion that music stopped evolving in 1975 ! |
| 16 | Public discontent at the defeats Britain had suffered , coupled with resentment of the unrepresentative character of the House of Commons , helped to produce in 1779–80 a movement of an almost revolutionary kind . |
| 17 | Its price reflects the fact that it is not in the category of software expected to sell in millions of copies . |
| 18 | The search for a third museum able to contribute financially to the project ended when the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna agreed to participate in 1989 . |
| 19 | ( It ceased operating in 1985 . ) |
| 20 | The umbrella group we 'd formed in 1987 had fallen into abeyance , but the name still meant something . |
| 21 | She 'd moved in two weeks earlier and always corrected the spelling of her name when it was written wrongly on the cleaning rotas . |
| 22 | He told me I should be grateful as this was the first Sunday lunch-time down his local that he 'd missed in five years . |
| 23 | Sometimes it poured down in such thick sheets of water that earth and sky seemed merged in one grey wetness … |
| 24 | At one time it looked like everything we 'd done in twenty years was going to be spread out on the table — and that included sating up a group to destabilise our closest ally if it got needed . |
| 25 | The welcome from son and wife was the first warmth I 'd felt in seven days . |
| 26 | But if their record was added to last season 's run-in , which yielded five wins from the last six , then their 12 victories amount to the number Neston secured to win in 1992 . |
| 27 | Well , oh gosh , the team seemed to play in one way like , nine man rugby scrum , scrum and scrum half and that 's about it is n't it , probably was how we planned it . |
| 28 | Everything seemed to point in one direction , but he was far from happy . |
| 29 | Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game . |
| 30 | For Norman Harris , a guitarist and producer in Philadelphia , his ideas seemed to coalesce in 1972 , around the time he put together ‘ Armed And Extremely Dangerous ’ by a high school trio called First Choice . |