Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had become a sort of one-off adventurer and then after '79 it took on another role again . |
| 2 | Shortly after ten-thirty she switched off her light . |
| 3 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |
| 4 | He did come close to going on pension once at the age of 75 he sent off a perfunctory letter asking for retirement . |
| 5 | At the age of 22 he set up shop in Sweeting 's Alley , which was near the Royal Exchange . |
| 6 | On the last day of 1969 I sat down at my office desk , in the Bath Road , Bristol television studio , and pensively typed a memo . |
| 7 | In nine cases out of ten it turns out to be the office cleaner 's milkman 's financial adviser . |
| 8 | We 've got the see if you can get us this number , and nine times out of ten he comes back and says here it is , and on the tenth occasion he 'll come back and say , Too risky . |
| 9 | In the summer of 1923 he turned out at inside-right for the local police in their fixture against the lawyers . |
| 10 | For several years their task was to open and close the trap doors which were essential for controlling the circulation of air , then at about the age of twelve they moved on to pushing the underground wagons . |
| 11 | In the spring of 1942 they carried out the most effective sabotage raid of modern times , destroying the St Nazaire ( French coast ) battleship dock and preventing the Tirpitz — the most powerful battleship then afloat — from moving to this possible base for raids on American troop and weapon convoys . |
| 12 | As he approached the age of 40 he bowed out in favour of Peter May , an heir-apparent who had succeeded Sir Leonard Hutton as England captain two years earlier . |
| 13 | that first night of seven we went out from the warm |
| 14 | I like boxing and when I was suspended in the summer of 1990 I took up boxing and accepted , perhaps too quickly , a fight against the then French light-heavyweight champion . |
| 15 | The same happens with two but for three she counts out ‘ 1 , 2 , 3 ’ . |
| 16 | So in 1869 he came back to England and went to live in a large house in the country . |
| 17 | When she retired from the RCM in 1948 she went on to run the Violet Melchet Infant Welfare Centre near Sloane Square , a job she held for the next twenty years . |
| 18 | ‘ In 1986 they shut down the mine and offered all the workers a pay-off . |
| 19 | In 1983 temporary workers not in special schemes made up 5.5 per cent of the total labour force not in special schemes ; in 1986 they made up 5.6 per cent [ see Table 1.13 ] . |
| 20 | Then in 1986 I moved down to London , played keyboards with a cabaret group and worked on my second book . ’ |
| 21 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 22 | ‘ In 1986 she stops over in New York for an exhibition and at the same time visits two postmodern ‘ simulationist ’ painter , Philip Taaffe and Ross Bleckner , in their studios . |
| 23 | In the 1860s Spence became interested in copper smelting , and in 1866 he set up a company in Gode to develop his ideas . |
| 24 | Following her father 's death in 1866 she carried on his pioneering work on the development of the screw propeller for steamships . |
| 25 | In 1886 they ran out of money and the bank foreclosed . |
| 26 | After irregular schooling , in 1886 he went up to Queen 's College , Oxford . |
| 27 | He could easily be presented as a modest example of Samuel Smiles 's self-help — the illegitimate son of a farm-servant and a weaver , totally lacking in formal education , who advanced from Oldham textile-worker to foreman in an engineering works , until in 1861 he set up independently as a dentist , dying worth almost £15,000 , which was by no means negligible : a lifelong radical Liberal and temperance advocate . |
| 28 | In 1980 I set out to change the face of political presentation in the UK and to use some of these new concepts and techniques in business and industry as well . |
| 29 | Editor , — In 1980 I took out a BMA-BUPA policy for myself , my wife , and my daughter . |
| 30 | ‘ In 1980 I moved back to LA from Mammoth Mountain ski resort and started my business , Stussy Surfboards . |