Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The martyrdom of his father in 203 left him with a cold antipathy to the pagan establishment , whether in government or in high culture . |
| 2 | The castle changed hands many times during the Scottish Wars of Independence and remained a thorn in the crown until James V sacked it in the sixteenth century ; but before the level of the loch was raised in the 1930s , |
| 3 | His appointment as lieutenant of the Tower in June 1660 placed him in a position vital to the maintenance of order in the City . |
| 4 | His provision of seventy hides of land for Benedict 's new foundation in Wearmouth in 674 and a further forty hides for his parallel foundation in Jarrow in 681 associated him with the two houses , which were to become pre-eminent in Northumbrian monastic culture and scholarship . |
| 5 | Experimental surgery on his legs when he was 10 left him in a wheelchair , yet in 1988 he climbed Kala Patar in the Himalayas over 18,000 feet in the shade of Everest . |
| 6 | Still , three guides out of three made it to the col between the two summits , and two out of three to the summit itself , while only one client out of 15 was present . |
| 7 | Dr Thomas Arnold in 1836 described him as a man of incomparably greater genius than any of the Anglican divines and theologians , and to have given a far truer and more edifying picture of Christianity . |
| 8 | Murchison recognized the boy 's ability , arranged for his entry to the Royal School of Mines , where he studied under Thomas Huxley and ( Sir ) Andrew Ramsay [ qq.v. ] , and in 1862 recruited him to the Geological Survey of Scotland . |
| 9 | But a new administration in 1807 sent him on a futile mission to conciliate Denmark , following the British bombardment of Copenhagen . |
| 10 | Two-twenty-five found me on the steps of a slightly crumbling mansion in what the Estate Agents would call a highly desirable residential area . |
| 11 | Mrs. X told me in a telephone conversation today that the acting commanding officer and the warrant officer , who is the family officer , have informed her that the man is to return within the next two weeks . |
| 12 | After the Restoration , a grateful Charles II rewarded him with a baronetcy ( the Catholic Esmondes retained the title while remaining staunch nationalists : the late Sir Anthony Esmonde is the only man with a title conferred by an English sovereign to have sat in Dail Eireann , the Irish parliament ) . |
| 13 | I suppose also the that the slang term was confined to the esoteric vocabulary of sailors for a hundred years , until the rise of the boffins in World War II brought it to the attention of the general public . |
| 14 | The arrest of the ‘ Gang of Four ’ in October 1976 eliminated them from the power struggle . |
| 15 | Darcy , who also began three under , did not play consistently enough and his 76 took him to a one-over-par 145 — but McLean had the worst fortune . |
| 16 | An accident in 1957 left him with a metal plate in his head , but the vehicle licencing authorities were well aware of the fact and Mr Collett held a PSV coach driver 's licence . |
| 17 | John followed Richard after a lapse of some six weeks , to be succeeded in turn by Henry III after a vacancy of a week , and Edward I succeeded him after a four-day interval . |
| 18 | In 1284 Edward I appointed him to a commission sent to Ireland to audit accounts there . |
| 19 | But a debt mountain of £1.4 billion brought it to the brink of collapse late last year . |
| 20 | The figure I gave you about the amount of money I 've spent gives you a notion about the size of the advance , which was very generous from both Gollancz and the Americans [ Putnam ] . |
| 21 | However , a venture as public-works contractor in World War I left him with a considerable bank overdraft , not liquidated until 1922 . |
| 22 | However experimental surgery on his legs when he was ten left him in a wheelchair . |
| 23 | And no one saw him in the street ; that little turning is almost entirely occupied by people who are out at work all day . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But no one saw him near the flat that afternoon . |
| 25 | As a Unitarian he was debarred from holding civic appointments or public office , but , following the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828 , for the annulment of which he had campaigned , the corporation of Newcastle in 1832 invested him with the highest judicial function in their gift , the recordership , and shortly afterwards with the honorary freedom of the city . |
| 26 | I continued donating until late 1987 when the pressures of my early twenties swept me into a few years of self neglect by alcohol and all those unhealthy things that young people do . |
| 27 | Daphne Rye , the top casting director , looked after him following his demob and in 1948 ushered him into the West End in a literary play — from a book by Elizabeth Bowen — Castle Anna , which Daphne herself directed . |
| 28 | The dynamic campaign then waged under his command during the late summer of 1936 drew him into the spotlight as Nationalist Spain 's most successful general . |
| 29 | Easter Day 1945 found him in the darkness of a cattle truck in a German railway tunnel ; there was a true resurrection moment when prisoners were allowed out in to the sunshine and flowers of the railway cutting . |
| 30 | The Oxford Study reveals that of 169 people who reported receiving damages as a consequence of an accident suffered , only four received them as a result of a court order . |