Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Lennon , the leader of Her Majesty 's Loyal Opposition , who was briefly a member of an unsuccessful group called The Quarrymen back in the 1960s , was apparently asked if he wanted to reform to appear on the bill . |
| 2 | The shop was started by the Neal brothers back in the 1870s . |
| 3 | The Detective Sergeant unzipped his coveralls , collected his labelled brown paper bags and put his equipment back in the two cases . |
| 4 | → Sorry to have forgotten about the Pacifica , Graham — although , come to think of it , Charvel/Jackson might also have been in on the act back in the mid-eighties . |
| 5 | With a controlled distributor system , the spirits range and its own TV airtime , PTGI — and Guinness in Indonesia — is moving on still further from its origins back in the 1970s . |
| 6 | It was a Dutch medical man who is credited with having discovered the first recipe for gin back in the 1600s . |
| 7 | Even so , when I stumbled across Miss Diana Dors — a permissive sex-symbol of some notoriety twenty years ago — advancing its claims in a popular magazine and asking us to cast our minds towards ‘ my era back in the fifties ’ , I was not immediately sure whose side she was supposed to be on . |
| 8 | But Paula , who shot to fame back in the '70s in the hit TV shows The Lovers and Man |
| 9 | Looking at the relaxed poses in our photographs , it will come as no surprise to learn that Clarissa modelled for a few years back in the 60s . |
| 10 | And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two . |
| 11 | Mike Pumfrey had wondered whether the two of them might sit and talk things over in the two easy chairs stained , dusty , pre-war relics , that squatted capaciously in the far corner of the study . |
| 12 | In practice , the photographic process is usually much more complicated and involves separate runs with the red , green and blue separation positives ; that is , a minimum of six , to be multiplied in turn by the number of mattes ( if several rather than one are involved figures up in the thirties are not uncommon ) In practice also , matte lines may mark the joins too visibly . |
| 13 | Indicative of things back in the eighteen . |
| 14 | In New Zealand 's ’ King Country' — so called because of the Maori kings who fought a guerrilla war against the settling English — Maori lads fresh from rounding up the droves of merino sheep from the bush clad hills would have a night out in the one horse town and go to the fleapit . |
| 15 | Thus we shall be plunged into a show trial of the public morality every bit as much a barometer of our times as the Lady Chatterley case back in the Sixties . |
| 16 | It was a revue back in the thirties . |
| 17 | Richard Feigen the high profile dealer who used to show the quick among artists back in the 1960s but who now specializes in the dead ( so much easier to cope with ! ) has had the bright idea of mounting , this month , the first Pierre Roy exhibition in the United States in over fifty years . |
| 18 | Free Range Egg production having taking off in the 80's , seems to have come to a halt , if all that we read and hear is true . |
| 19 | Especially built to haul heavily loaded trains up in the 1 in 29 bank to Walsingham , 2-6-0 and 0–6–2 No. 3 ‘ Norfolk Hero ’ poses at Wells after day 's work on May 6 . |
| 20 | If we sample one of these cavities in which the process is er which produce boils er are going on , almost inevitably we find this organism staphylococcusorius and offspotulates have been clearly fulfilled with organism and this disease most notably by a bunch of of medical students who are subjected to all sorts of tortures by their professor of microbiology back in the nineteen fifties . |
| 21 | J. D. Hooker was one of the first scientists to be informed of Darwin 's new theory back in the 1840s , and he now came out in public support of the Origin of Species . |
| 22 | Suddenly , this had become a special event and Lewis knew it , for his playing took on a new intensity as he began to alternate between rock ‘ n ’ roll classics from his early career back in the Fifties Sun era to later country material . |
| 23 | This may have been the case when Lady C. first frightened the servants back in the twenties , but now that kind of behaviour would probably land Mellors in the hot water he so obviously needs . |
| 24 | Football mythology includes the unlikely tale of a First Division club laundering cash from the Great Train Robbery through its turnstiles back in the 1960s . |
| 25 | It was what , seventy eight percent over all , and in , and in a large , very large individual constituencies you were seeing turn out in the eighties . |
| 26 | It was the way we looked at life back in the mid-60s . ’ |
| 27 | I 've been doing research that 's been inspired by the work of Marie Hoader , who 's Emeritus Professor at the university , a social psychologist , and she had researched unemployment back in the nineteen thirties ; she studied an Austrian village called Mariental , where practically everybody was unemployed , and late in the nineteen seventies as our group began raising questions about the future of work , she engaged in a review of the research between the thirties and the seventies to see if things had changed . |
| 28 | Mick McManus , Britain 's version of a WWF-style baddy back in the 1960s and '70s , admits : ‘ I thought that the popularity of the American shows might have an adverse effect . |
| 29 | Of course , there was a bit of a shake out in the mid-seventies and a fair number disappeared , which might explain … ’ |
| 30 | The original Specials were quite wonderful guitars ; I 'm sure I saw Steve Marriot ( still sorely missed ) use one with Humble Pie back in the '70s to pretty devastating effect . |