Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to my senior command and in 1986 I informed my chief officers of the acceptance of my Ph.D . |
| 2 | At eight I had my first migraine ( I could not please her , I might as well join her ; they stopped soon after I left home ) , and I started to get rapidly and relentlessly short-sighted . |
| 3 | In 1972 I undertook my first race since leaving school 35 years earlier and managed 13.3 seconds for the 100m , ending last in the O50 final and lame in both hamstrings . |
| 4 | AT 2 she performed her first solo — as a bee emerging from a flower ! |
| 5 | On Saturday 4th September 1993 we make our annual gesture of support for the Central Wales Line . |
| 6 | In Act 2 they make their startling début after Domingo 's first important solo ; in Act 3 they reappear to congratulate him on his second . |
| 7 | In 1881 he married his first cousin , Eliza , daughter of Franklin Stanley Cripps , a small shopkeeper in Wisbech . |
| 8 | In 1802 he joined his elder brother Daniel in founding a drapery business at 3 North Street , Brighton , where he drew and published ‘ A New and Correct Plan of Brighthelmstone ’ . |
| 9 | When , for the first time , the Reverend John Wesley stopped in Portadown , then a village of about 700 inhabitants , on Friday 10 April 1767 he made his oft-quoted remark that it was ‘ a place not troubled with any kind of religion . ’ |
| 10 | In 1808 he received his last assignment when he went to Sweden as minister . |
| 11 | He was an eccentric individual , and in 1962–63 he opened his own museum in Provincetown , Cape Cod , in which he hung the Chrysler Collection . |
| 12 | During England 's tour of 1989–90 he celebrated his hundredth Test by scoring his eighteenth century , passing 7,000 runs in the process , and at the end of the series his total stood at 7,134 at an average of 46 . |
| 13 | In 330 he inaugurated his new eastern capital , the ‘ city of Constantine ’ at Byzantium on the Bosphorus , planned as a ‘ New Rome ’ . |
| 14 | If he want the forty six , I mean the forty six I give you this . |
| 15 | After acquiring the relevant paper qualifications in 1979 I got my first sales and marketing job in 1980 . |
| 16 | Thank you for permitting me to tell you some more about EMMS and I close by mentioning that in November 1991 we celebrated our 150th Anniversary in the Greyfriars Church , Edinburgh . |
| 17 | After five years , Josiah was ready to set up in business on his own account , and in 1759 he established his own enterprise . |
| 18 | Nothing is known of his education and early life , but on 17 February 1826 he received his first certificate of suitability for a post in the excise service . |
| 19 | At the age of twenty-eight he established his own printing business . |
| 20 | In 1929 he made his first trip to Spain , where Toledo inspired him to achieve a greater breadth and expressiveness in his landscapes . |
| 21 | In 1804 he produced his first popular set of aquatints , Sixty Views of the Lakes . |
| 22 | In 1877 he published his best-known work , How to Draw a Straight Line . |
| 23 | In 1986 she contacted her local authority for help ; it was then , she says , that her life changed for the worse . |
| 24 | It was then , with my other 's encouragement , that I started having lessons , and in 1975 I made my professional début . |
| 25 | In 1920 he married his former secretary , Olive , daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Roddam . |
| 26 | In 1920 he published his first article , on the Hall 's history , in the first issue of its magazine , which he had launched , and in 1927 he produced a pioneering , scholarly study , An Oxford Hall in Medieval Times . |
| 27 | Wordsworth worked from observation — ‘ The incident occurred in the village of Holford , close by Alfoxden ’ , — but in a letter of 1836 he makes it clear that it was a friend who actually saw the man . |
| 28 | Early in 1932 it began its new ‘ A Million New Members and Power ’ campaign . |
| 29 | In 1975 he wrote his open letter to President Husak about the price that would have to be paid for delivering their country into the hands of an ‘ entropic ’ regime which depended ‘ solely on the ruling minority 's instinct of self-preservation and on the fear of the ruled majority ’ , a regime which positively required the suppression of truth and history for its surival . |
| 30 | In 1859 he produced his last print ‘ Dogs of St. Bernard ’ , and in 1865 he was declared bankrupt . |