Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Up till about 1980 I had little experience of float fishing for big bream , and I do n't recall ever having read anything on the subject . |
| 2 | As a child of the Thirties I heard much talk of J.P.M. and Fred Shaw ( the NCLC Organiser ) , Plebs and the Railway Service Journal — and the Manchester Guardian — were as much a part of my youthful literary life as Mickey Mouse and Film Fun . |
| 3 | And it was indeed hope , education and reformation that dominated the sphere of juvenile justice in these years , most solidly embodied in the Children and Young Persons Act of 1933 which consolidated these developments in the treatment of young offenders . |
| 4 | Chapters 3–4 Who said these words in the story ? |
| 5 | The fifth , René Lévesque , likewise recognized for his visionary leadership , was the premier of Quebec between 1976 and 1985 who brought that province to the brink of separation from the rest of Canada . |
| 6 | All adult women won the vote in 1928 , after partially winning it for women over 30 who possessed some property in 1918 . |
| 7 | During 1939–44 he spent several years teaching in North America , at Hartford Seminary and at Fisk University , and he received an honorary DD from Wesley College , Winnipeg . |
| 8 | The United Kingdom imposed visa restrictions from Nov. 8 on former Yugoslavs except holders of Croatian and Slovenian passports and agreed to take only 150 refugees plus their dependants ; on Nov. 30 it increased this number to 1,000 plus dependants for temporary asylum . |
| 9 | But before he cruised to his unbeaten 85 which sealed this victory with more than 11 overs to spare , he was put through quite an ordeal by the pumped-up Waqar . |
| 10 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 11 | In 1963 he made few changes to Adenauer 's cabinet and emphasised the element of continuity in government , though his personal style was very different to that of ‘ the old man ’ . |
| 12 | On Dec. 7 he put this intention into action by visiting Amritsar , accompanied by his most senior ministers , where he received a warm welcome from large crowds . |
| 13 | Throughout 1969 I spent some time each month visiting schools , and attending yet more meetings in Curzon Street . |
| 14 | After she retired from the headship of her department in 1920 she gave much time to various women 's groups and to societies for the promotion of women 's interests . |
| 15 | I was the only one of the three who had any confidence in Burmese , and so was able to be bilingual in teaching and in giving notes . |
| 16 | In fact , Kitty was the only one of the three who had enough time off during the day to help out on the barrow , but as she never got up until the sun rose and slipped away long before it had set , she still was n't what Granpa would have called an asset . |
| 17 | His malevolence towards Pound , his friend since their college days in Philadelphia , is extraordinary ; and when in 1920 he amplified this piece in the prologue to his Kora in Hell , Williams compounded the offence by quoting selectively from a private letter that Pound had written him . |
| 18 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 19 | During the 1940s he directed many films for and British National . |
| 20 | That illustrates graphically the fact that in 1980 we had fewer pedestrian deaths than West Germany and now we have more . |
| 21 | In the summer of 1981 I investigated this pattern of variation by surveying seven towns scattered throughout Britain : Bristol , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Manchester , Newcastle upon Tyne and Sheffield . |
| 22 | These were followed by a Soviet Government decree on 28 June 1918 which nationalised all branches of industry . |
| 23 | And I would have thought us giving five percent and , and there are other provinces that are giving more will ensure at least the the on twelve thousand we pay next year and therefore , starting with eleven and half thousand we paid this year and that provinces and in ourselves went further than that it is possible . |
| 24 | But in the early 1160s he had little success at bending the Welsh princes to his will , while one major invasion attempt in July 1165 was thwarted by atrocious summer weather . |
| 25 | The need for " dialogue " nevertheless became the keynote in pronouncements by Prime Minister Sid-Ahmed Ghozali , and on July 11 he invited all opposition groups to attend a national conference at the end of the month " to define the framework and forms of dialogue " . |
| 26 | For three years from 1977 I worked all hours , sacrificing my career and my free time , for the cause of the ordination of women in the British Anglican churches . |
| 27 | This has been enacted in the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1958 which required those tribunals listed in the Act to give a statement , written or oral , of the reasons for a decision , if requested by the individual . |
| 28 | The ambiguity in Soviet interpretations of the 1931 treaty partly derived from Article 6 which permitted both parties full freedom of action to establish any relations and alliances with third parties provided that such links do not contradict the other provisions of the treaty . |
| 29 | From 1883 he spent much time abroad , especially in areas of active volcanoes . |
| 30 | In fact , there were only five which displayed these kinds of stereotypes : e.g. NEW ATTACK BY FREED SEX PEST ; VILLAGE IN FEAR OVER SEX BEAST ; CHILD SEX BEAST JAILED ; GIRLS ' BEDROOM SEX PEST ; PERVERT RAN CLUB FOR KIDS . |