Example sentences of "[num] and [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress in 1885 and presided at the 1886 and 1893 sessions . |
| 2 | A new name , that of the 38-year old Michael Holroyd Smith , appeared in the technical press of Europe and America in 1885 and stayed in the news into the next century . |
| 3 | Caradon was bought from publishers Reed International for £61m in 1985 and came to the stock market in June 1987 with an initial market value of £134m . |
| 4 | He was chairman of the Venice Biennale from 1974 to 1979 and served on the board of La Scala of Milan . |
| 5 | Pearce Print was set up in the centre of Northampton in 1979 and moved to the new Moulton Park Industrial Estate until changing its location to Kettering in 1991 . |
| 6 | The process began with the Serbian revolt of 1804 and culminated in the rebirth of Poland and the creation of the new Czechoslovak and Yugoslav states in 1918 . |
| 7 | Simpson signed for Palace in the summer of 1929 and came into the team for the fifth match of the 1929–30 season , on 14 September for the home match with Norwich City . |
| 8 | Woolworths opened its first British shop in Liverpool 80 years ago , thrived on its ‘ nothing more than 6d ’ formula until the second world war , lumbered through the the 60s and 70s and came into the embrace of Mulcahy 's team with more than 1,000 outlets . |
| 9 | The last general election to the Rashtriya Panchayat was held in May 1986 and resulted in the election of a number of members opposed to the panchayat system [ see p. 34423 ] . |
| 10 | The defendants admitted the validity of the will of 30 June 1978 but contended that the deceased had duly executed a further testamentary paper being a first codicil on 18 April 1986 and counterclaimed for the pronouncement in solemn form for the codicil . |
| 11 | The tradition began in about 1700 and continued with the Evening Courts which ended in 1939 . |
| 12 | Both had escaped to the United Kingdom in June 1940 and worked with the government in exile while regrouping the defeated Norwegian army . |
| 13 | Bill joined the BBC as a radio engineer 's assistant in 1932 and went to the fledgling Television service a few years later . |
| 14 | Elfriede came to England at the age of three and stayed with the Lewis family in Newport , Monmouthshire . |
| 15 | Among dock , river and waterside workers such a movement took place in a number of ports in the 1870s and culminated in the great Liverpool dock strike of 1879 . |
| 16 | The body emerged in February 1946 and resulted from the actions of Hodge , Rhee and the mysterious M. Preston Goodfellow . |
| 17 | A long-serving member of the British Pottery Managers ' Association , Roy was President in 1984 and served on the executive committee for eight years . |
| 18 | He performed military service during the king 's Flemish campaign of 1315 and died at the abbey of Maubuisson , near Pontoise , on 13 December of that year . |
| 19 | Jacobus van Huysum ( c.1687–1740 ) brother of the famous Dutch flower painter , Jan ( 1682–1749 ) , lived at Chelsea from 1720 to 1740 and worked in the Physic Garden to provide some of the illustrations for John Martyn 's Historia Plantarum Rariorum ( 1728–37 ) . |
| 20 | He turned professional when he was sixteen and fought for the featherweight title of Great Britain , a bout he lost to Micky McGuire . |
| 21 | She was sixteen and went to the movies with a schoolfriend . |
| 22 | Muccio spoke trenchantly to Rhee on 18 January 1950 and warned of the perils of inflation . |
| 23 | There seem in fact , however , to be two exceptions to this general rule , namely Molla Yegan , who almost certainly resigned the office , and Abdulkerim , who must either have resigned or been removed from it if the facts given in the he was appointed Mufti in the time of Mehmed II and died in the time of Bayezid II — are correct . |
| 24 | General Booth visited Portadown in 1902 and spoke in the Town Hall on ‘ The Lessons of my Life ’ . |
| 25 | This and other changes that year made an important contribution to the wave of inflation which beset the oil-consuming world for the rest of the 1970s and led to the formation of IEA towards the end of 1974 . |
| 26 | He signed for Palace on 8 March 1962 and progressed through the Junior ranks for a couple of seasons . |
| 27 | By studying in the evenings at Burslem Art School , Emberton won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1911 and worked for the London architects Trehearne & Norman , 1913–14 . |
| 28 | The economies total output , its Gross Domestic Product , expanded for much of the eighties and peaked in the middle of nineteen ninety . |
| 29 | ELECTRA KICKED off with the folk music of the '50s , went through the late '60s underground of the Doors/Stooges/MC5 , drifted into the Asylum California scene of the '70s and arrived in the '90s of new boss Bob Krasnow whose tenure has seen the addition of soul , in the shape of Pendergrass , Anita Baker and others . |
| 30 | ELECTRA KICKED off with the folk music of the '50s , went through the late '60s underground of the Doors/Stooges/MC5 , drifted into the Asylum California scene of the '70s and arrived in the '90s of new boss Bob Krasnow whose tenure has seen the addition of soul , in the shape of Pendergrass , Anita Baker and others . |