Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After qualifying in 1986 he decided to spend a couple of years working outside the profession to gain experience in merchant banking or venture capital . |
| 2 | Discharged in 1988 he returned to his old job but was soon arrested for possessing cannabis . |
| 3 | When it reported in 1955 it demanded less permissiveness , not more . |
| 4 | When the Redcliffe-Maud Commission ( on England ) reported in 1969 it recommended the abolition of the old structure and the establishment of a new pattern of local authorities . |
| 5 | When the foreign ministers of the Non-Aligned met in 1981 they deplored the buildup of foreign arms and military forces in the area . |
| 6 | In the same year that the school seconded a member of staff to develop the school-industry relationship , our second secondment was in many ways closely related in that we released a member of staff with a brief about the development of a Record of Achievement and Experience ( RAE ) . |
| 7 | The EC-IBM 1984 agreement was also dated in that it applied only to mainframes ( specifically the IBM 370 series and successors ( which were now of less than their previous dominant significance . |
| 8 | Time was saved in that it became less necessary to put down formal amendments designed to probe government intentions . |
| 9 | Pembroke himself spent three years -in captivity , and although he was ransomed in 1375 he died soon afterwards of an illness worsened by the rigours of his imprisonment . |
| 10 | Thus when the General Strike came in 1926 it marked the end of a period of working-class militancy and collective resistance to industrial decay and stagnation . |
| 11 | In a Legislative Council meeting in 1937 he accused the government of pampering the Masai and condoning such ‘ vile practices ’ as ‘ the repeated rape of immature girls ’ in manyattas . |
| 12 | 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 ’ |
| 13 | ‘ When the Institution was founded in 1824 it cost a guinea a year to be a Governor . |
| 14 | During and Spencer 's study differs from earlier ones in which microdialysis was used in that it involved chronic monitoring ( up to 16 days ) in conscious patients . |
| 15 | When the Barnsley Beckett Hospital first opened in 1867 it depended upon the benevolence of local businessmen , colliery owners and public subscription for its income . |
| 16 | After turning in 32 he treated the sun-basking crowds to some confident shot making , adding further birdies at the tenth and fourteenth to underline his command |
| 17 | Reporting in 1935 it advocated the fullest adoption of the planned distribution of industry and population based on garden city development . |
| 18 | The grounds for relief were , inter alia , that Lautro failed to comply with the rules of natural justice and to act fairly in that it failed before the service of the notice to inform the applicant or Winchester of the allegations being made therein , failed to allow Winchester or its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised company representatives the opportunity of answering or responding to the allegations made against them , failed to take into account the interest of Winchester , its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised representatives when deciding to exercise the notice ; that Lautro acted unreasonably and came to a decision such that no person or body properly directing itself on the relevant law and acting reasonably could have reached in that it acted with bias against Winchester and its officials , issued the notice at a time its investigations were incomplete and on the basis of findings which were erroneous and provisional , and failed to conclude its investigations before serving the notice ; and that Lautro acted ultra vires and in error of law in that the rights of appeal applied to any person subject to the rules of Lautro whether or not members . |
| 19 | Leeson had hoped that his imagination had exaggerated the resemblance , but he saw when the girl walked in that it had n't . |
| 20 | In addition , during the ‘ Hundred Years War ’ which began in 1338 it meant there was a constant coming and going across the county by a not particularly well disciplined soldiery . |
| 21 | I hold you in the greatest esteem for the peerless courage you displayed in all you undertook . |
| 22 | After James was born in 1983 she intended to return after maternity leave fairly quickly , but at the time Edelman 's was in the process of changing — two senior partners had died , and two others had gone into industry . |
| 23 | Born in 1880 she died in 1968 . |
| 24 | Beginning in 1902 they began a series of four dams , to regulate and to some extent re-direct the flow . |
| 25 | When the lover 's list was first calculated in 1973 it cost just Pounds 2,818.60 . |
| 26 | Failing in this they had then strangled her and thrown the body downstairs to give the appearance of suicide . |
| 27 | They had grown so used to her not joining in that they had not really noticed that she had stayed up there when they came down . |
| 28 | I did n't take in all he said , but I learned something . |
| 29 | The airy and intricate line of Torro , weaving up the slabby wall to the left of Centurion , followed in 1962. it fell to John McLean , Willie Smith and Willie Gordon of the Creagh Dhu , with some aid . |
| 30 | When the last de Burgh Earl of Ulster died in 1333 he left only a daughter , Elizabeth Countess of Ulster in her own right , whom the king married to his second son , Lionel of Antwerp , created Duke of Clarence in 1362 . |