Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1616 and 1629 she bore eight children , and with her husband was active in a Shrewsbury conventicle . |
| 2 | After Thebes swallowed up Plataia in 427 she controlled four Boiotarchs and 240 councillors . |
| 3 | During 1971 and 1972 he surveyed four oil refineries — two each in France and Britain — interviewing a total of over 800 workers . |
| 4 | Between 1378 and 1407 he enjoyed thirty-five benefices ( although never more than twelve at once ) . |
| 5 | On his death in 1985 he left two gold watches to his sons . |
| 6 | According to a report on Radio Afghanistan on Dec. 30 he received 916 votes and there were 59 votes against . |
| 7 | In 1903 he sold four sets of kites to the Admiralty ; in 1905 the army ordered kites , and engaged Cody to instruct the Royal Engineers in their operation . |
| 8 | In April–May 1991 I spent 5 weeks in Japan , part of the time as a visiting teacher at Kyoto University . |
| 9 | I had six I had five advertisers go in . |
| 10 | 1991 we had two trees with flashing lights , and a local family , whose children had written in to us about the trees , were invited to switch them on . |
| 11 | In 1828 he began five years as an apprentice apothecary with the Apothecaries ' Company of London . |
| 12 | In October 1522 he conveyed two freehold houses and 1 ½ virgates to a certain Thomas Hyll , but subsequently seems to have taken up residence at Hagley , for in October 1526 he was presented for operating a brothel in which his own daughter was the star attraction : prostitution , it has been suggested , was a concomitant of deferred marriage , widespread among the peasantry of the West Midlands . |
| 13 | There was there was a case of one girl who back in nineteen sixty eight she killed two boys when she was eleven . |
| 14 | You had a choice of an eight or a three I had two jacks and a king you chose the three , the two turned up that would 've given you eight and a but you picked the three so that 'll give you more in the box as well an three hit your three hit your hand as well so |
| 15 | At Chester in England in October 1807 she spent two days editing a slim volume of letters addressed to her by ‘ Several Africans and Indians ’ , including a black bishop , proto-feminist Indian women , and a convicted felon . |
| 16 | In November 1941 they became 101 Troop of 6 Commando , with Lieutenant Smith in command , and were attached to the naval shore base HMS Lynx , from which they operated , with MTBs , submarines , or other carriers taking them to the area of their target beaches . |
| 17 | By 1831 they controlled 7,000 spindles and , adding new mills and steam power , were to employ 510 hands by 1845 . |
| 18 | In the late Seventies he did two spells at the Royal National Theatre , playing Hamlet and Tamburlaine the Great on the move to the South Bank . |
| 19 | In February 1946 he appointed thirty-two cardinals from all parts of the world , and twenty-four more in 1953 . |
| 20 | His friendship with Byron fired his own literary ambitions and after returning to London in 1812 he published two volumes on his travels . |
| 21 | Between June 1958 and December 1960 he made eight trips to Algeria . |
| 22 | Sir Robert Morier , perhaps the most successful British diplomat of the later nineteenth century , was partly French : in 1870 he had six cousins fighting in the French army . |
| 23 | He was greatly saddened by the death of his only son in action at Ypres , and in 1917 he published two poems in The Times , ‘ Bond and Free ’ and ‘ Wooden Crosses ’ , which aroused wide interest . |
| 24 | Back in January 1980 we made ten predictions about the decade ahead — and offered free resubscription forms to all readers if we scored less than five out of ten . |
| 25 | 4 I had x dollars but lost S dollars . |
| 26 | At the impressionable age of fourteen she spent twelve days in Geneva , and soon fell under Malan 's spell : |
| 27 | Between 1894 and 1902 she bought twenty-four paintings from Colnaghi , always through Berenson . |
| 28 | The publisher Grant Richards encouraged her to turn to novel writing , and between 1907 and 1916 she produced six books which are the perfect expression of her personality : frivolous and witty , but with an underlying sense of melancholy . |
| 29 | By the end of 1981 we had 310 collections and reckoned to have covered about three-quarters of the region . |
| 30 | In 1981 we had one challenge after another . |