Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then in 1986 I moved down to London , played keyboards with a cabaret group and worked on my second book . ’ |
| 2 | Michael : It 's about sportsman and when he was seven he was a good football player and then when I was about ten or eleven I went swimming and then when I was about eleven I dived in without any — urn — with no water in the pool so I got eye-sighted and then , when I was about fourteen it was I played snooker and I had to do the strokes really good because I was eye-sighted . |
| 3 | ‘ In 1980 I moved back to LA from Mammoth Mountain ski resort and started my business , Stussy Surfboards . |
| 4 | we went in the bank and I won a house on the bingo , you could of cracked me Julie said if we win we 'll go halfs I said right you are so we said right that was fine , there was four of the bleeding winners one pound fifty I ended up with |
| 5 | In 1972 I went off to university were I could find no handle on art history until I read Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists ? and discovered that research could replace airy-fairy ‘ lack of genius ’ answers with concrete ‘ lack of education ’ answers . |
| 6 | At 0400 she blew up with the loss of fifty-seven of the precious tanks and ten of the even more precious Hurricanes . |
| 7 | In 1834 he set up on his own in London as a general chemical manufacturer . |
| 8 | This rose to 50% in the mid 1980s , but in 1991 it shot up to 55% . |
| 9 | In 1621 he spoke out against the patentee , Sir Giles Mompesson [ q.v. ] , and the popish threat to the Palatinate ; and in 1629 delivered a notable attack on the influence of the king 's Arminian advisers . |
| 10 | Thus Mary of Guise and cardinal Beaton fought for the support of lord Gray and lord Ruthven ; Beaton won the first , though in 1548 he came over to Mary ; two years after the cardinal 's death , Mary won the second . |
| 11 | On the last day of 1969 I sat down at my office desk , in the Bath Road , Bristol television studio , and pensively typed a memo . |
| 12 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 13 | When on 24 August 1921 she broke up over the Humber on a final exercise in sharp turns , Maitland , on board but not in command , died with forty-two others . |
| 14 | Late in 1822 he arrived back in London and Place secured him a position as a correspondent for the Morning Chronicle . |
| 15 | In nineteen seventy three it went up to fifteen dollars a barrel and in nineteen seventy nine it went up to thirty dollars a barrel . |
| 16 | In 565 he came down from the islands to try and convert a Pictish king . |
| 17 | In 1921 he went on to the Technical College at Bandung , founded only the previous year . |
| 18 | In 1904 he met up with a man named Blaney , and Young Buffalo was born . |
| 19 | I knew Granpa wanted me to stay on at school and improve my readin' and writin' , but on the last Friday of term in December 1913 I walked out of the gates of Jubilee Street Elementary , with my father 's blessing . |
| 20 | ‘ No , and in ‘ 77 I went back to the States — to Austin , Texas . |
| 21 | In 1957 he met up with some of the world 's leading canoeists who had fled the Hungarian uprising and this fostered an interest and ambition to see Britain rise from the status of also rans to the achieving of Olympic and World Championship medals . |
| 22 | In 1600 it flared up from obscurity to the third magnitude ; ever since 1715 it has fluctuated around 5 , and may be compared with 28 Cygni ( 4.8 ) and 29 Cygni ( 5.0 ) . |
| 23 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 24 | He was born with a heart complaint , and in November ‘ 76 he went up to Hammersmith Hospital , and on 2 December he had an operation . |
| 25 | As L & Y shed No. 17 it housed up to 40 locomotives including LYR 4-4-0s , 2-4-2 tanks , 2-6-2 tanks and Dreadnought 4-6-0s for working the passenger traffic to Preston Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 26 | At seven-thirty he got out of the car with a flashlight and pushed through the undergrowth to a nearby stream . |
| 27 | Back in Flat 3 I changed out of my Court Appearance gear and into civilian clothes . |
| 28 | Well in fact it , it it has in fact gone full circle because through the nineteen fifties you went through to co-ops to collectives to communes which lasted through to nineteen seventy eight , the communes were then disbanded and you 're back , now , after reform which took very much system . |
| 29 | In 1930 she set off on her first solo long distance flight and broke the record from England to Australia . |
| 30 | Three twelfths good and can you remember how many twelfths you got out of a half ? |