Example sentences of "[num] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By six o'clock the water had n't arrived and Haverford , looking at their despondent faces , said , ‘ It 's like a death in the family . ’ |
| 2 | In 487 BC the archonship ceased to be an elected position , chosen by the aristocracy , and was henceforth filled by lot , while in 461 BC the council of the Areopagus , composed of the ex-archons , was deprived of its powers . |
| 3 | At 10 AM the King held a Conference at Buckingham Palace at which the Prime Minister , Baldwin and Samuel were present . |
| 4 | At 7.20 a.m. the radio announced that the putsch was ‘ an internal affair of the army ’ . |
| 5 | It is an irresistible inference that before 5 p.m. the mother had discussed the question of blood transfusions with her daughter because Miss T. ‘ out of the blue ’ according to the nurse raised the subject . |
| 6 | On Nov. 13 and 17 respectively the court ruled that Stoph , who had not been well enough to attend the previous day and had heart problems , and Mielke were too ill stand trial . |
| 7 | At 5 a.m. the barrage stood still for half an hour while the infantry mopped up and re-formed behind it . |
| 8 | There is no known plan of the arrangements at Stretford Bridge when the BCR opened , and by the time the first 1/2500 scale Ordnance Survey plan was surveyed in 1883 only the platform remained . |
| 9 | The ladies in the parade were transferred to closed carriages and about 3 o'clock the procession moved off . |
| 10 | At precisely ten o'clock a siren split the burning air above the plantation to indicate that collection of the latex was to begin . |
| 11 | But by ten o'clock the mist had gone , burned off by the sun which shone from a clear blue sky . |
| 12 | About 10.30 a.m. the army began to march past . |
| 13 | If things did go wrong , especially during recording , it was counted major disaster , increasing proportionately in scale the nearer to 10.00 pm the clock ticked . |
| 14 | At 10.00 pm the Corporal came round to check that we were all present and in bed before turning the lights out and leaving us to sleep . |
| 15 | Had he been in Whitechapel , Charlie would have been happy to run up and down the market from five in the morning to seven at night and still box a few rounds at the club , drink a couple of pints of beer and carry out the same routine the next day without a second thought , but when at nine o'clock the sergeant-major gave them a ten-minute break for cocoa he collapsed on to the verge exhausted . |
| 16 | But Eileen did n't sleep , and by nine o'clock the pain had become stronger . |
| 17 | At one o'clock the judge left the court for an hour . |
| 18 | By the eighteen twenties perhaps the congress had become somewhat er divisive . |
| 19 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 20 | It said that PW 's independence was compromised by BCCI loans to partnerships in Panama and Barbados , and that from 1987 onwards the firm had ‘ ample reason ’ to believe that BCCI 's accounts did not give a true and fair view of its financial situation . |
| 21 | At that time the Conservative majority over all other parties exceeded 130 so the result demonstrated a major back-bench rebellion . |
| 22 | At four o'clock the door opened , and a very strange servant came in . |
| 23 | Tradition has it that at the cremation of Gautama Buddha in India in 543 BC the tooth survived the flames and was brought to Kandy in the fourth century AD . |
| 24 | They were only just in time , for a minute or two later a procession appeared at the top of the hill and began to make its way slowly down . |
| 25 | '' A day or two later an earthquake shook the whole area and the same thing happened : ‘ ’ the Lord was not in the earthquake . ’ |
| 26 | A month or two later the alarm sounded again . |
| 27 | In 1947 again the winter closed in after Christmas , as often happens in the Dales , only this time haytime had been ruined by a terrible summer and , in spite of the RAF airlift of fodder , many thousands of animals died of starvation . |