Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mr Deane eventually left Ireland later in 1978 he confided to the Cork Examiner that the decision to have violent confrontation at Barnahely was not made by him : ‘ That morning was handled on the advice of other people . |
| 2 | After returning to Bombay early in 1858 he was appointed the East India Company 's agent in Zanzibar and British consul , the previous consul having died at his post thirteen months previously . |
| 3 | Debating parliamentary reform in the Dail early in 1983 they were complaining of being " almost totally engaged in working for their constituents " , " whistling with exhaustion under the sheer burden of constituency work " . |
| 4 | On being intruded briefly as vicar of Duxford late in 1646 he had been labelled ‘ a godly and orthodox divine ’ . |
| 5 | Before moving to London permanently in 1757 he produced A Plan of the River Nene , from Thrapston to Northampton , with the Mills and Locks necessary for the Navigation ( 1754 ) , and A Plan of the Road from Towcester in the County of Northampton , to Weston Gate in the County of Oxford ( 1756 ) . |