Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a brief engagement to a man later convicted for bigamy and fraud , in 1929 she married American-born Robert Woodward Hathaway ( second of three sons of Charles Hathaway , a Wall Street banker ) . |
| 2 | In the close season of 1924 he signed outside-right John Williams from Rotherham at a ‘ dirt cheap ’ price of under £2,000 . |
| 3 | In 1984 we privatised British Telecom but only Mercury was given a licence to carry services over fixed links . |
| 4 | In 1648 and 1649 he encouraged disgruntled Virginia Puritans to settle in Maryland . |
| 5 | In February 1844 he married eighteen-year-old Mary Anne , daughter of John Kilby , farmer . |
| 6 | Mary died in 1867 , and in 1871 he married Constant Mary , daughter of William Hewer , in Battersea . |
| 7 | For instance when he visited Manchester in 1814 he wrote 9th September — an exceedingly pleasant ride all the way from Leicester to Manchester … we found my poor mother ( actually his step-mother ) surprisingly well for a person of 80 — dined at Brother 's and drank tea with my mother and Aunt Weston ’ , and on ‘ Sunday , I went to my mother 's and walked back with Aunt Evans to my brother 's , she walked wonderfully for a person of 82½ — drank tea again at my mother 's . |
| 8 | To augment this kind of study , in the summer of 1989 we asked all Leeds primary heads to rate the overall effectiveness of the PNP INSET provision in relation to each of the four PNP aims . |
| 9 | During the 1980s it bought Marine Midland , a commercial bank based in upstate New York ; Carroll , McEntee & McGinley ( CM&M ) , a primary dealer in American Treasury bonds ; and James Capel , a London firm of stockbrokers . |