Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The auction was conducted by Harry Phillips , auctioneer of New Bond Street , in July and August 1859 and raised some £95,000 in eighteen days : four pictures were bought by the National Gallery , and others by collectors of the calibre of William Douglas , eleventh Duke of Hamilton , Walter Scott , fifth Duke of Buccleuch [ qq.v. ] , the fourth Marquess of Hertford , and Baron James de Rothschild . |
| 2 | ‘ He left SIS back in sixty-two but kept some contact with the service for at least a decade afterwards . ’ |
| 3 | Presteigne ( the modern spelling ) had a railway connection , completed in 1875 but planned some years earlier ( see below ) , which lasted right up till Dr Beeching 's Axe . |
| 4 | One of these was Francis Newton Souza , who arrived in Britain from India in 1949 and had some success , nationally and internationally , in the Fifties and early Sixties . |
| 5 | Oddly enough , one of Pierre Salinger 's researchers , Linda Mack , while trying to check me out , had talked to another of their staffers , David Mills — the former Newsweek photographer who 'd looked me up on Cyprus in 1987 and sold some pictures to Hurley . |
| 6 | Having suffered a breakdown , she gave up her job in 1907 and spent some time in Sussex . |
| 7 | ACT include two players in their squad who are no strangers to Scotland — centre Jim Swan who has returned after playing in the junior teams at Gala , and flanker Mark McInnes , who toured with the Wallabies to Canada and France in 1989 and spent some time with Peebles . |