Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the moment he had come to power , Napoleon III had made it plain that for him the problem of Paris was not simply one of creating prosperity for its inhabitants ; rather it was one of transforming and embellishing the city in such a way as to make life better for its inhabitants while simultaneously making it worthy of the new France . |
| 2 | Salisbury retired to Hatfield where he died 3 December 1668 , but not before Charles II had appointed him high steward of St Albans in 1663 . |
| 3 | The Labour government of 74–79 had made it compulsory for local education authorities to reorganise secondary schools along comprehensive lines in the 1976 Education Act , but one of the first acts of the Conservative government of 1979 was to repeal this . |
| 4 | His first 50 had taken him 103 deliveries . |
| 5 | The 1980s had left us both with spreading waist-lines and a feeling that we were beginning to slow down . |