Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up till about 1980 I had little experience of float fishing for big bream , and I do n't recall ever having read anything on the subject . |
| 2 | As a child of the Thirties I heard much talk of J.P.M. and Fred Shaw ( the NCLC Organiser ) , Plebs and the Railway Service Journal — and the Manchester Guardian — were as much a part of my youthful literary life as Mickey Mouse and Film Fun . |
| 3 | During 1939–44 he spent several years teaching in North America , at Hartford Seminary and at Fisk University , and he received an honorary DD from Wesley College , Winnipeg . |
| 4 | The United Kingdom imposed visa restrictions from Nov. 8 on former Yugoslavs except holders of Croatian and Slovenian passports and agreed to take only 150 refugees plus their dependants ; on Nov. 30 it increased this number to 1,000 plus dependants for temporary asylum . |
| 5 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 6 | In 1963 he made few changes to Adenauer 's cabinet and emphasised the element of continuity in government , though his personal style was very different to that of ‘ the old man ’ . |
| 7 | On Dec. 7 he put this intention into action by visiting Amritsar , accompanied by his most senior ministers , where he received a warm welcome from large crowds . |
| 8 | Throughout 1969 I spent some time each month visiting schools , and attending yet more meetings in Curzon Street . |
| 9 | After she retired from the headship of her department in 1920 she gave much time to various women 's groups and to societies for the promotion of women 's interests . |
| 10 | His malevolence towards Pound , his friend since their college days in Philadelphia , is extraordinary ; and when in 1920 he amplified this piece in the prologue to his Kora in Hell , Williams compounded the offence by quoting selectively from a private letter that Pound had written him . |
| 11 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 12 | During the 1940s he directed many films for and British National . |
| 13 | That illustrates graphically the fact that in 1980 we had fewer pedestrian deaths than West Germany and now we have more . |
| 14 | In the summer of 1981 I investigated this pattern of variation by surveying seven towns scattered throughout Britain : Bristol , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Manchester , Newcastle upon Tyne and Sheffield . |
| 15 | And I would have thought us giving five percent and , and there are other provinces that are giving more will ensure at least the the on twelve thousand we pay next year and therefore , starting with eleven and half thousand we paid this year and that provinces and in ourselves went further than that it is possible . |
| 16 | But in the early 1160s he had little success at bending the Welsh princes to his will , while one major invasion attempt in July 1165 was thwarted by atrocious summer weather . |
| 17 | The need for " dialogue " nevertheless became the keynote in pronouncements by Prime Minister Sid-Ahmed Ghozali , and on July 11 he invited all opposition groups to attend a national conference at the end of the month " to define the framework and forms of dialogue " . |
| 18 | For three years from 1977 I worked all hours , sacrificing my career and my free time , for the cause of the ordination of women in the British Anglican churches . |
| 19 | From 1883 he spent much time abroad , especially in areas of active volcanoes . |
| 20 | One by one he filled each chamber with powder and then , without wadding or patch , placed a soft lead ball on its mouth and pulled the long lever beneath the barrel ; this lever moved the rammer which forced the lead down into the chamber and sealed it so completely , the Collector had been assured , that the powder would still fire even if you immersed your arm completely in water . |
| 21 | By 1839 the mill was in the hands of Richard Hone and in 1840 he installed some form of steam engine , probably to power such auxiliary equipment as a winnower and bolting machine . |
| 22 | In 1987 it embraced these proposals in an Act to apply to Scotland , to come into force in the financial year 1989 . |
| 23 | In 1961 he founded another seminary , St Vincent 's College , Langbank , and served as its first rector until 1974 . |
| 24 | Dressed up in his fireproof overalls , he was certainly going to earn some of the millions he made this morning . |
| 25 | He then moved to a succession of short-term jobs until in 1934 he joined some friends in establishing a garage near Basingstoke , specializing in veteran and vintage cars . |
| 26 | On leaving the Service in August 1935 he spent several months looking around and also being looked at by the family of the lovely Ly , his Swiss wife , a scrutiny which was reciprocated when Ly had in turn , to be looked at by the swarm of Bennetts in Brisbane , Australia . |
| 27 | From 1869 he published several papers on speech disorders , describing a visual and later an auditory word centre , as well as word blindness and word deafness ( later known as Wernicke 's aphasia ) . |
| 28 | Conditions on Santiago , however , are truly formidable , In 1982 I spent several days in the interior of the island , seeing the terrifying flows of jagged , jumbled lava that makes walking difficult and cuts shoes to shreds in a short time . |
| 29 | The first was built in 1840 and then around 1900 they had more money and built a gallery and a huge house in front of it . ’ |
| 30 | Between 1713 and 1763 they paid little attention to the colonies in America , and at least for the first half of the period it was hard to see what else could have been done . |