Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was described as being about 30 and wearing a diamond patterned jumper . |
| 2 | He was elected lord mayor of Liverpool for 1916–17 and became an alderman in 1921 . |
| 3 | This artist 's impression is said to be a good likeness of the attacker who 's thought to be in his late 30s and has a pot belly . |
| 4 | He was knighted in 1885 and created a baronet later the same year . |
| 5 | In Goa the new Chief Minister , Ravi S. Naik [ see p. 37964 ] , expanded his ministry on Feb. 12 and won a vote of confidence in the state legislative assembly on Feb. 18 . |
| 6 | The reshuffle was effective from Oct. 2 and involved a total of 642 officers . |
| 7 | Rabuka , who in May 1987 had ousted the civilian government elected one month earlier , was appointed Prime Minister on June 2 and named a coalition government on the following day . |
| 8 | His brother William , who had started a ‘ cabinet of curiosities ’ in Birmingham in 1800 , moved to Liverpool in 1801 and opened a museum . |
| 9 | He joined Comprehensive Financial Services , which later became Rathbone Brothers , in 1985 and became a director in 1990 . |
| 10 | A person " connected " with a director is defined in s346 Companies Act 1985 and includes a body corporate in which the director and other persons connected with him are interested in at least one-fifth of the nominal value of the equity share capital or control more than one-fifth of the voting power of the company at any general meeting . |
| 11 | He left Aberystwyth in 1879 and spent a year in Oxford on a non-collegiate basis . |
| 12 | A letter to Peter Davall Esqr. in the Temple , London , written 1753 and read a year later , points out that seeds exhibited at the Society did not fit the description of a particular species of Bauhinia . |
| 13 | He became a plasterer , but left his wife in 1825 and became a fish hawker — hence his nickname ‘ Cockle Dick ’ . |
| 14 | Taxes Act 1988 , s66(3) states that if at any time a person acquires a new source of any income in respect of which he is chargeable under Case III or makes an addition to any source of any such income then in the year of assessment in which the income first arises from the source or addition and the two following years of assessment the charge shall be on an actual basis in accordance with TA 1988 , s66(1) . |
| 15 | There he opened a day-school in 1849 and built a parsonage in 1854 . |
| 16 | Together they number some 500 , though the social club has had to call a halt on membership at 2,000 and has a turnover of £2 ½ million . |
| 17 | Together they number some 500 , though the social club has had to call a halt on membership at 2,000 and has a turnover of £2 ½ million . |
| 18 | Already preparing himself for the first of his political glittering prizes , the viceroyalty of India , he visited the Trans-Caspian in 1888 and published a book on it in 1889 . |
| 19 | Shaw was knighted in 1660 and created a baronet , with three of his partners , in 1665 . |
| 20 | Li Peng paid a visit to North Korea in May 1991 and made a tour of South-East Asia in August 1990 and of the Middle East in July 1991 . |
| 21 | Having received no response they served a statutory demand on the debtor on 21 August 1991 and issued a bankruptcy petition based on the demand on 20 September . |
| 22 | When faced with complaints about hospitals , and especially about unacceptable waiting lists , the government made an emergency payment of £100 million for 1987/88 and commissioned a review of the NHS . |
| 23 | Foreign trade officials from all 15 union republics met on July 26 and signed an agreement to divide among the republics Soviet diamond , gold and hard currency reserves , and foreign credits to the Soviet Union , as well as sharing responsibility for the Soviet Union 's $65,000 million foreign debt . |
| 24 | These complications are illustrated in Figure 5.1 and an example of variance spectra also conjectured by Church ( 1980 ) is also illustrated in Figure 5.1 and introduces a theme which will be resumed in chapter 8 ( p.161 ) . |
| 25 | He took silk on 26 November 1784 and became a bencher on 25 January 1785 , reader in 1790 , and treasurer in 1791 . |
| 26 | Can I say , I 'm thirty six and had a hysterectomy a year ago . |
| 27 | She was raped at thirteen and had an orgasm , her first . |
| 28 | This superb floating hotel has a passenger capacity of 1,610 and carries a staff and crew of almost 700 . |
| 29 | Klingenzell priory , between the castles Liebenfels and Freudenfels , was founded in 1333 and became a place of pilgrimage . |
| 30 | He was called to the bar in 1948 and became a QC in 1967 . |