Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Dutch police have the power to confiscate a vehicle found speeding at 70 kilometres per hour more than the legal level . |
| 3 | Table IV gives rates of self reported smoking in 1989 and 1990 among pupils who were never smokers in 1988 . |
| 4 | The fluoridation plant in Watford , also showing signs of age , stopped operating in 1989 . |
| 5 | I stopped going after six months because I felt I 'd resolved my immediate problem , and it had become a drag and an effort , largely because I had a problem with the silences . |
| 6 | The business of environmental consultancy has evolved rapidly over the past decade , with the number of UK firms involved jumping from 100 to 225 over the past couple of years alone . |
| 7 | As I slid the door bolt home I stopped counting at ninety-two . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | None of this was available to the hard-pressed scholarly hacks in Gissing 's new Grub Street , or to the real-life Francis Thompson , keeping himself just alive by high-quality literary journalism , which involved working for twelve hours every day and taking no holidays . |
| 10 | Last September he bought a camcorder which stopped working within six months . |
| 11 | ( It ceased operating in 1985 . ) |
| 12 | The auction was successful with bids received amounting to 2.28 times the amount of stock on offer and the following day the Bank announced the issue of three new tranchettes of tap stock . |
| 13 | She wound a lime chiffon scarf of Madeleine 's around her head , and practised pouting with one hip thrust forward . |
| 14 | Now to be fair , the dilemma was there as the whole soft crust thing got going on 10 November 1989 , when the fall of the Berlin Wall gave a prop of plausibility to the caring-Nineties mediaschlock , and to Rifat Ozbek 's baggy Kleenex-vagabond numbers . |
| 15 | Torgyan claimed that there was division between " the unified membership and leadership " and individual officials , and that the parliamentary faction risked splitting in two over the issue . |
| 16 | The bequest financed bullbaiting for 162 years , until it was outlawed in 1823 . |
| 17 | AN unemployed gardener , Colin Edmiston , 51 , of Inchcolm Court , Edinburgh , was jailed for three years at Dunfermline Sheriff Court yesterday when he admitted breaking into four houses in Dalgety Bay , Fife , and stealing goods to the value of more than £34,000 . |
| 18 | He was walking with his mum in Chicago when two men in a car began firing at three others . |
| 19 | She was born in Baltimore in 1915 and began singing in 1930 after moving to New York . |
| 20 | Other ‘ collectables ’ are the single sheet almanacks of the tradesman and workshop variety , and the products of the perennial ‘ Old Moore ’ who , possessed of the secret of eternal youth , began prophesying in 1699 and is still going strong . |
| 21 | It began trading in 1971 as the subsidiary of a Germany company before being bought over by its management team in 1987 . |
| 22 | The company only began trading in 1988 for the refurbishing of high voltage equipment and its installation and commissioning . |
| 23 | Another exodus began at 6.30 a.m. on 1 September 1939 , when Glasgow children began assembling at 57 schools , 70,000 weans scrubbed and labelled for a bewildering adventure . |
| 24 | Margaret Loxton was born in London in 1938 and began painting in 1981 . |
| 25 | Well , I went with a friend from university and we both enjoyed walking and in particular we enjoyed walking from one place to another place , and last summer was the only last long break either of us would ever really have and erm |
| 26 | By doing so they tied their fortunes even more firmly to the popularity of the Soviet Union , placing a series of time-bombs under themselves which began exploding in 1947 and 1948 . |
| 27 | Inspired by the example of his eldest brother Dick , he began boxing in 1937 , the year in which Dick made his professional debut . |
| 28 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 29 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 30 | Scott could not succeed without outside finance , and soon this was supplied by David Astor , then editor of the London Observer , who put up half the money for a new venture , the Central African Mail , which began publishing in 1960 . |