Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board of Trade 's official figure for 1892 was 20,000 and for 1893 , 15,000 but for the latter year it may actually have been less , little more than 12,000 . |
| 2 | He believes in his heart that Daisy has loved him during the many years they have not seen each other but he has pined over her . |
| 3 | During the many years it was to remain at Scampton R5868 was maintained and also given the occasional coat of paint . |
| 4 | After a few years they may find that not enough of their nature is being fulfilled . |
| 5 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 6 | I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’ |
| 7 | After a few years he was able to believe that guilt itself was an indulgence , that he did n't need to suffer it unless he chose . |
| 8 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 9 | By December of the same year they had two similar groups and by March 1988 , three and at this stage they began to meet all together monthly for a celebration . |
| 10 | The king 's concession that the cost of troops should fall on the rich and powerful rather than the poor of the community was insufficient to placate the commons , and in the October parliament of the same year they presented a petition entitled ‘ La demande de la Commune ’ in which they called for the abolition of the maltote , the punishment of purveyors who took prises without making payment , and pardon for debts . |
| 11 | In April of the same year it was clear from the interim report of the committee that recommendations would be proposed whereby building development would be controlled throughout the country and that compensation for the public acquisition of land would be set at the standard of 31 March 1939 . |
| 12 | The first entry in his diary for 1802 is ‘ 19th January — Mr. Ibbetson 's Dance ’ ; and on 12th May of the same year he danced there again , and did not return home till next day . |
| 13 | On 24th November of the same year he ‘ exhibited to Mr. Lloyd and Mrs Southey — and saw Mr. Harden — went to see Mrs. Sharpe and the poor Lady . ’ |
| 14 | In January 1936 he lectured in Dublin and when in June of the same year he agreed to read poetry at Sylvia Beach 's bookshop in Paris ( he was in that city for a four-day visit ) she described it as an " historic event " although one member of the audience on that occasion remembered how he did not once glance at his listeners , but seemed " fiercely defensive " and turned the pages with a " look very near distaste " : his profile was " like a bird of prey of some sort " . |
| 15 | In November of the same year he talked on " The Idiom of Modern Verse " to the Cambridge English Club , where he had for one auditor the appearance of " a very shy , neurotic man " 32 In 1937 he gave an address to the Friends of Rochester Cathedral on religious drama , and lectured on Shakespeare at Edinburgh University he told Lawrence Durrell , however , that he seemed to have spoken about what he himself was interested in doing in the theatre and not about Shakespeare at all.In April 1938 he travelled to Lisbon in order to sit on the jury for the Camoens Prize ; when he came back , he had to address the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral on the poetry of George Herbert and then , two months later , talk on " The Future of Poetic Drama " at an International Theatre Congress in Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 16 | In January 1296 the king attempted to array all £40 freeholders appropriately equipped , while in November of the same year he distrained all £30 freeholders for knighthood . |
| 17 | In September of the same year he started working with Dr George Andrew Reisner , director of the Harvard–Boston expedition , on the restoration of the furniture of Queen Hetep-heres , the mother of King Khufu ( 2560–2537 BC ) , discovered at Giza by Alan Rowe two years earlier . |
| 18 | In November of the same year he was appointed chaplain to Newgate prison , where he wrote a large number of Ordinary 's Account s of funeral sermons , confessions , and last dying words of criminals executed at Tyburn . |
| 19 | He was commissioned almost at once , and early in 1792 he returned to the Foudroyant as first lieutenant ; in April of the same year he was promoted master and commander , being given the Pigmy of 14 guns ; and in 1790 he was made post . |
| 20 | On 27 September of the same year he published his first book , Galfredus Petrus , Opus sane de deorum dearumque gentilium genealogia ( STC 19816.5 ) , from his new premises near the conduit in Fleet Street , where his printing-house remained for the rest of his life . |
| 21 | William Symons must have been a wild one for in July of the same year he and Elizabeth Cole also of Halling , were both bound over for twenty shillings to appear at the next gaol delivery . |
| 22 | In the space of a few years we had Eldon Square in Newcastle , the Cleveland Centre in Middlesbrough , Milburngate in Durham , where you could stroll heedless of weather and traffic . |
| 23 | And now what they 're saying is , well we 'll buy out those appeals , if you had your appeal running for a few years we 'll give you five hundred pound ex gratia payment . |
| 24 | For a few years he was a lecturer in divinity at Hertford College and in 1911 published A Gospel Monogram . |
| 25 | Having worked at Billingham for a few years he was appointed as a commissioning engineer for an ammonia plant in Canada before moving in 1985 to manage the leading concept ammonia [ LCA ] plant at Severnside , Avonmouth . |
| 26 | For a few years it would undoubtedly be more expensive to cable Britain with optical-fibre links directly into the home . |
| 27 | And for a few years it had just about done so . |
| 28 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
| 29 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
| 30 | Holiday parks in which you can camp , or stay in a chalet or caravan are now remarkably good — so much so that if you have n't tried this kind of holiday for a few years you could be in for a very pleasant surprise . |