Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Editor , — In 1980 I took out a BMA-BUPA policy for myself , my wife , and my daughter . |
| 2 | In 1885 she took over the management of the embroidery section of Morris & Company , her father 's firm . |
| 3 | In January 1933 it set up a central By-Election Insurance Fund to help needy constituencies to put forward candidates . |
| 4 | On 4 July 1933 he made out an application to the Passport Office . |
| 5 | In 1933 he took out a British passport , falsely claiming his place of birth as Galway , Ireland . |
| 6 | In 1684 he turned over the retail side of his business to Francis Saunders and his partner Joseph Knight . |
| 7 | On his father 's death in 1867 he took over the business , and in the 1871 census he was described as ‘ chemist and dealer in foreign stamps ’ . |
| 8 | A college for women had been Mrs Reid 's dream from childhood , and in 1849 she put up the money to found Bedford College , hoping for hundreds of applications but in fact receiving at first only a few dozen , including those of her own friends . |
| 9 | From 1963 they filled in the gully and fenced the land . |
| 10 | In 1678 he took out a patent for a simple ‘ engine ’ turning wheels for spinners of flax , and recommended county workhouses to Parliament in Provision for the Poor . |
| 11 | In 1892 he took up a post under W. B. Latham in the Birmingham Botanic Gardens , studying at the technical school in Birmingham , where he won the Queen 's prize in botany . |
| 12 | In about 1784 he set up a press there , and founded an ambitious system of circulating libraries ; to anyone wishing to set one up he offered a stock of books , a catalogue , and instructions . |
| 13 | In 1842 he wrote out a short sketch of his theory , and in 1844 a substantial essay that was intended for publication only if ( as he now feared ) he should die prematurely . |
| 14 | In 1932 she set up a facility at the Settlement Hall in Newport Road , teaching children basic skills , walking , and speech therapy . |
| 15 | In 1984 he took over the occupancy of 84 acres of land near Gosforth in Tyne and Wear which was owned by the Ashdale Land and Property Company . |
| 16 | By 1984 he plucked up the courage ( or obtained the permission ) to do the two things he really wanted : make wine from Pinot Gris ( originally a Burgundian grape ) as a Burgundian would , fermenting and maturing it in ( partly new ) French oak barriques ; and stop filtering his dry white wines . |
| 17 | Technology is a key element of our strategy , and in 1992 we carried out a major review of our research and engineering activities . |
| 18 | Back at Napo , the young cocoa trees in the nursery were growing well , and in February 1981 we planted out the first trees in our ‘ gene bank ’ . |
| 19 | When peace came again in 1918 we followed up the production of reversible wool rugs with the making of chenille Axminster carpets . |
| 20 | He built his first car by the time he was 18. in 1909 he took over the Molsheim factory near Strasbourg and set about developing the greatest racing car in the world . |
| 21 | Fothergill was a doctor and in 1740 he set up a practice in White Hart Street very near the Collinson establishment and flowers from Peckham might well have adorned yet another house in the City . |
| 22 | In 1952 he took over the captaincy from Michael Barton . |
| 23 | In 1873 he took up a similar appointment with the Great Eastern Railway . |
| 24 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |
| 25 | He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research . |
| 26 | When her brothers joined up in 1914 she took over the running of the Ferry assisted by some local boys who enjoyed the good food that Mrs Stevens provided . |
| 27 | In October 1911 he took up a position as pupil and lay assistant to the Revd Herbert Wigan , the vicar of Dunsden , near Reading . |
| 28 | In 1958 he took over the running of the Horncastle Maltings , which , after a series of ownerships was acquired by . |
| 29 | In 1978 he took up a Senior Registrar post in Diabetes at the General Hospital , Birmingham , and in 1981 his present post as Consultant Physician at Dudley Road Hospital , Birmingham . |
| 30 | Oh , a at nineteen forty eight they split up the electric supply and the three was nationalized and erm it , it just went out of the control of the local councils , it was government controlled then and there was a distinct possibility that the transport section would be sold off to private enterprise and the only private enterprise that was capable of taking over then was the Eastern Counties but erm I think the , the erm local council having had the transport under their wing for so many years , fought off that erm feeling and erm they kept with it and er , of course all the accountancy went to the Borough Treasurer and the certain members of clerks from the Borough Treasurers , which was at in those days , er seconded on to transport accounts . |