Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about half past eleven I had a telephone call — I was in bed but I have an extension in my room for emergencies . |
| 2 | On 29 September 1980 I purchased a house for £9,000 cash from my father , who owned it exclusively in his own name from 1968 when I , along with him , my mother and sister , came to live there . |
| 3 | In Chapter vi I suggested a way in which this can be achieved . |
| 4 | In 1972 I wrote a paper with Brandon Carter and an American colleague , Jim Bardeen , in which we pointed out that although there were many similarities between entropy and the area of the event horizon , there was this apparently fatal difficulty . |
| 5 | With × 12 I find a hint of resolution in the outer parts , and this is marked with × 20 . |
| 6 | As I was walking down Sackville Street one fine spring day in 1985 I noticed a sign in the window of a bookshop , now no more , advertising BBC books for sale . |
| 7 | ON OCTOBER 2 I gave a talk on the British monarchy at an astrological conference in Oslo . |
| 8 | In Chapter 2 I gave a breakdown of the five minimum requirements of the graph search mechanism . |
| 9 | In 1895 she published a novel , At the Relton Arms , and a short story in the Yellow Book , the staff of which she then joined . |
| 10 | Our pH 16 values are normally 5 to 9 ; I look upon anything above pH 11½ to be bad — that 's from my experience in the laboratory that to get to a pH of 11 is easily done but to get to a pH of 12 you need a dam sight more alkali . |
| 11 | Before turning professional in 1985 she started a Sport Science degree which she still hopes to complete . |
| 12 | In autumn 1903 she made a walking tour through France with Dorelia McNeill , later Augustus John 's companion . |
| 13 | From 1901 to 1903 she held a Bathurst studentship , doing postgraduate research under H. E. Armstrong [ q.v. ] at the Central Technical College , London . |
| 14 | In 1697 she made a tour of the north and of Kent and in the following year she made her ‘ Great Journey to Newcastle and to Cornwall ’ . |
| 15 | At the age of 22 she married a farmer and turned her back on showbusiness . |
| 16 | In 1867 she married a clergyman , Frank Besant . |
| 17 | Consequently , early in 1985 we made a number of visits to schools in order to interview non-respondents and to request them to fill in the questionnaire orally . |
| 18 | They provided loans and grants for artists in need from May 1870 , in 1885 they offered a pension programme and , in 1910 , a medical aid programme . |
| 19 | In 1421 they entered a contract to be loyal to each other without dissimulation or fraud . |
| 20 | 17–6–1848 They forwarded a memorial to Lord John Russell praying that the Post Office should be caused to be shut throughout the Kingdom on the Lord 's day ; and on 19th February 1849 they petitioned the shareholders at Perth against running trains on the Sabbath . |
| 21 | in 1876 he became a research assistant to P. G. Tait [ q.v. ] , professor of natural philosophy . |
| 22 | Mill Reef returned to Longchamp the following spring to notch up a ten-length victory in the Prix Ganay , but after a lacklustre display when beating Homeric a neck in the Coronation Cup at Epsom he did not race again : he was being prepared for a second Arc when on 30 August 1972 he fractured a foreleg on the gallops , and was retired to stud . |
| 23 | In 1972 he opened a shop in the Kings Road , at first selling teddy-boy schmutter , much later , in premises renamed Sex , rubber and leather bondage clothing . |
| 24 | Charles McCall began life as a clerk to a firm of lawyers in Edinburgh , but in 1933 he won a scholarship to Edinburgh College of Art , where he studied under DM Sutherland and SJ Peploe . |
| 25 | In 1885 he became a founder-member of council of the Manchester Photographic Society , where he met some of the most notable pioneers of early photographic techniques , and in the same year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 26 | In 1881 he took a job at Hale Farm Nurseries ; then , not long after , in order to start experimenting with his ideas on design , accepted a partnership with a firm of contractors . |
| 27 | About 1881 he tried a change of policy by having some mapping done on the one-inch scale in order to speed up the surveying . |
| 28 | At the age of twenty-one he became a captain of his father 's ships and remained at sea until 1818 , acquiring a worldwide knowledge of shipping and navigation . |
| 29 | Parts I-IV consist of double-choral pieces for eight , but sometimes twelve , voices ; with Part V he began a systematization according to category , with motet-settings of Festlieder , and went on to produce three volumes — 746 pieces to 458 different texts — of straightforward four-part settings for congregational use plus a few organ ‘ variations ’ in VII ; in IX he again set the hymns of I-IV but for two or three voices and even contemplated doing them yet again ‘ motet-wise in the style of Lassus ’ , ‘ madrigal-wise in the style of Marenzio ’ , and per choros in the style of Victoria . |
| 30 | In the early eighteenth century about twenty families lived there , and according to the census of 1801 it had a population of 137 [ Baker , 2 , 720 ] . |