Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 2 | You tried putting them in two two sets of how many . |
| 3 | It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ . |
| 4 | Lathes were introduced to China perhaps as early as the Ming dynasty and were still being used in the jade workshops of Peking when Howard Hansford came to study them in 1938–9 . |
| 5 | This faction began to organise itself in 1989 at the founding conference of the United Front of Workers ( OFR ) in Leningrad in July 1989 . |
| 6 | When he finally decided to publish it in 1678 , he defended its form by comparing the tactics of the hunt for souls with the way in which a fowler must whistle to attract birds , and a fisherman must tickle trout before he can clasp them . |
| 7 | It was supposed to take three to five days , but we aimed to do it in two . |
| 8 | W. J. Arkell , king of the Jurassic , had placed it in 1933 at the base of the Callovian Stage . |
| 9 | Pippin , the first of the line , had destined it for his first-born , the young Charlemagne in the 750s ; Charlemagne had assigned it in 790 to his son Charles , later labelled primogenitus and designated heir to the regnum Francorum ( though he predeceased his father in 811 ) . |
| 10 | It came into force for those states which had ratified it in 1953 . |
| 11 | Whenever the two women were together , the conflict of loyalties had torn her in two . |
| 12 | The Republicans had committed themselves in 1920 to remaining outside the League of Nations , and there was no serious attempt to reverse this policy subsequently . |
| 13 | The fat boy had mated him in four moves . |
| 14 | Since the early part of the 1960s the sense that the universities needed to take their national role more seriously , as Reid had reminded them in 1948 , had been somewhat enhanced by the appointment of the Robbins Committee . |
| 15 | Proponents of scientific inquiry would often argue that God had revealed Himself in two books — the book of His words ( the Bible ) and the book of His works ( nature ) . |
| 16 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 17 | A kolkhoz to the east of Smolensk city in the Dorogobuzhskii raion complained that in 1921 its two shefi , a nearby hospital , and a regiment , had helped with the harvest , but no one had visited it in 1922 . |
| 18 | Basquiat 's estate , administered by his accountant father , still faces lawsuits from a dealer asking for $900,000 for three paintings Basquiat had promised her in 1982 but never delivered . |
| 19 | As for the evidence of the by-elections , Attlee himself had discounted it in 1943 : |
| 20 | Although the LTTE denied involvement in the assassination , it was widely noted that they had a strong motive , believing that Gandhi had betrayed them in 1987 when he dispatched the Indian army in an unsuccessful effort to bring Sri Lanka 's civil strife under control [ see p. 35313 ] . |
| 21 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 22 | When , three years ago , news of Implexion 's investiture into the Chamber of Ten had come to the Redoubt , Dauntless had locked himself in one of the private chapels for two days . |
| 23 | He had found her in one of the outlying villages . |
| 24 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 25 | An administrative career , and after 1848 his Bonapartist background , had led him in 1852 to the important prefectorate of Bordeaux , where he had hosted the famous reception in November of that year at which Louis-Napoleon in the course of his official speech had virtually inaugurated the Empire . |
| 26 | All he had was the certainty that whatever steps had been taken that day had led them in one direction only . |
| 27 | Louis Pasteur had observed it in 1877 , but even he was not the first to do so . |
| 28 | Every word of speech , song and prayer was in English , a great change from the services to which an Irish friend had taken me in 1960s Brighton . |
| 29 | Which was good for me ; if I had directed it in 1979 it would n't have had a chance . ’ |
| 30 | Furthermore , a quarter of the freeholdings were in the hands of completely different families from those which had held them in 1575 . |