Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [pron] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after eleven she heard the doorbell ring , then he groaning of the lift and a soft clatter as the grille door closed . |
| 2 | When Sarella pushed open the big old doors of the refectory a few minutes after eight she found the high-domed room beyond her deserted . |
| 3 | Once a Renaissance palace , after 1709 it became the property of Count Vrtba who commissioned Kaňka to rebuild it for him . |
| 4 | After 1949 he joined the Foreign Ministry and served in London between 1954 and 1962 . |
| 5 | In the Wimpy after 2001 we imitated the apes banging their bones on the ground with our knives and forks on the formica table . |
| 6 | Particularly after 1982 they had no independent power base , no military forces of any consequence on Israel 's borders , no diplomatic position in the West and no apparent way of halting Israel 's integration of the occupied territories into the Israeli state . |
| 7 | Nizan stuck to his principles , but after 1939 he became a political refugee . |
| 8 | During that decade of major war , Britain 's near-monopoly of factory industry was sustained , and after 1815 she entered a new era of economic history in which the mutual influences of industrialisation and trade expansion could work freely , and in which , as Professor Thomas has expressed it , " trade was the child of industry " . |
| 9 | For the past ten years she has been teaching part time at Roedean and between 1987–9 she completed a part time M.A. at Sussex University in Northern Renaissance Studies . |
| 10 | Unfortunately for Napoleon 's schemes , Fernando proved reluctant and when in the summer of 1869 he contracted a morganatic marriage with a German-born actress , Elisa Hensler , he virtually put himself out of court . |
| 11 | But it was the Gooch-Atherton opening partnership of 168 which demonstrated the flexibility of numbers . |
| 12 | At about half past eleven I had a telephone call — I was in bed but I have an extension in my room for emergencies . |
| 13 | The battle cry of 1948 which saved the life of an Oxfordshire village . |
| 14 | At the age of eleven I became an errand boy for a working tailor , and every Saturday , and perhaps on an evening in the week , delivered the suits and costumes that he had made , though often the finished article was well behind the promised date , so the errand boy received critical comments rather than a small tip . |
| 15 | In the Edinburgh District Memoir of 1861 he contributed a list of Silurian and Carboniferous fossils found in the area . |
| 16 | From the age of eight I attended the Odeon in Exeter . |
| 17 | The law against sex discrimination was strengthened by the Sex Discrimination Act of 1986 which removed the restrictions on the hours women could work , allowing both night work and shift work , and gave women the right to work until the same age as their male colleagues . |
| 18 | In 1984 the Housing and Building Control Act reduced the qualifying period of tenancy from three years to two and increased the maximum discount from 50 per cent to 60 per cent , and this was followed by the Housing and Planning Act of 1986 which increased the discounts available on flats to 70 per cent . |
| 19 | At the end of 1986 I started an MSc course , specialising in expert systems . |
| 20 | The dual system was an anomaly based on the Ausgleich or ‘ Compromise ’ of 1867 which guaranteed the independence of both Austria and Hungary except in certain matters of common concern ( see p. 202 ) . |
| 21 | He summoned his junior , Rajiv Sengupta , a rising star of thirty-six who had the job of co-ordinating financial assistance to industry in the regions , to worry with him . |
| 22 | In the spring of 1167 he led an army into the Auvergne , right on the eastern border of Aquitaine , in order to lay waste the land of Count William of Auvergne , who seems to have dispossessed his nephew the young Count . |
| 23 | An example of this is the case of a lady of forty-five who attended the clinic with neuralgia which had been present for some years . |
| 24 | In the zemstvo elections of 1909–10 they used the marginally greater electoral freedom granted after 1905 to elect vigorous upholders of the peasant interest . |
| 25 | A BOY of 12 who begged a judge to set him free of his mother was granted his wish last night . |
| 26 | In the early eighteenth century about twenty families lived there , and according to the census of 1801 it had a population of 137 [ Baker , 2 , 720 ] . |
| 27 | At the age of twenty-one he became a captain of his father 's ships and remained at sea until 1818 , acquiring a worldwide knowledge of shipping and navigation . |
| 28 | By the age of twenty-one he had a managerial post in charge of fifteen people . |
| 29 | At the age of 22 she married a farmer and turned her back on showbusiness . |
| 30 | In the summer of 1991 he proposed a new party programme which , in effect , would have brought it much closer into line with a social democratic party , competing with others on Western lines . |