Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only towards the end of my time in Spain , when we were in Ciudad Rodrigo for the Festival Taurino , that we once , quite by accident , found ourselves in the 69 position and went through with it successfully . |
| 2 | ‘ Rodney Martin beat him in the 1991 World Championship and I 've beaten Martin , so anything is possible , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Afterwards , Bowe dismissed Lewis , who beat him in the 1988 Olympic final , as ‘ a big , ugly bum ’ . |
| 4 | The teaching of deaf children by oral methods alone was not new ; the earliest teachers of the deaf such as Dr. William Holder and Dr. John Wallis tried it in the 1660s with ( as evidence shows ) far less success than they wrote about in the publications which earned them fame . |
| 5 | Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms . |
| 6 | Britain 's golden girl missed out by a stride on an £86,000 jackpot when arch-rival Sandra Farmer-Patrick pipped her in the 400 metres hurdles at the IAAF Grand Prix final and also won the women 's overall title . |
| 7 | The fate that befell him in the 1956 Grand National booked him a permanent place not only in the reminiscences of racing folk but in the British national memory . |
| 8 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 9 | The problem is an old one : Ford faced it in the 1920s when it shipped its mass-production methods across to old-fashioned , craft-based Europe . |
| 10 | But Malcolm Morley , although born in England , is an American painter , and in many respects Hockney became one in the 1960s though he 's now living with the French masters in a Côte d'Azur of his own imagining . |
| 11 | Now the factory which developed it in the 60s looks set to go the same way . |
| 12 | Sure , you loved them in the '70s . |
| 13 | If the convention as anti-parliament is understood as assuming that the people 's wishes must prevail , that the convention better expressed those wishes than parliament and therefore in any contest between the two popular loyalty should be to the convention , as abolitionists employed it in the 1830s , it was closer to a focus for intensifying ‘ pressure from without ’ than an alternative to parliament . |
| 14 | The general manager of the company Ian McCall said ; ‘ We have had a tremendous response already and we expect parents who wore them in the fifties and sixties to buy them for their children . ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 16 | Thomas Baskerville , who saw it in the 1680s , called it ‘ Paradise Restored , for here you find large streets , fair built houses , fine women , and many coaches rattling about , and their shops full of merchantable goods ’ . |
| 17 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
| 18 | Parliament never voted enough money for a naval war with the Netherlands to be decisively successful , so the most substantial result of the anti-Dutch policy was that in 1664 the English seized New Amsterdam , and kept it in the 1668 peace negotiations by handing over in exchange the English colony of Surinam in Guiana . |
| 19 | Trouser suits outraged convention when Courrèges introduced them in the 1960s . |
| 20 | With borrowed money he took advantage of an opportunity that presented itself in the 1930s when Oscar Deutch set about forming a third circuit of cinemas — after those of the Rank Organisation and ABC — by buying up the best sites . |
| 21 | On the first day he announced his new sponsorship deal with Everest — a return to the firm who supported him in the 70's when he rode for the Edgar yard . |
| 22 | In the big American museums you no longer have brilliant ‘ star ’ directors the way you had them in the Sixties and Seventies people like Sherman Lee at Cleveland , Fred Cummings at Detroit , Tom Hoving at the Met who could manage 5,000 projects at once , either making brilliant acquisitions , or putting on unusual or daring exhibitions , or making outrageous statements that might get them censured today . |
| 23 | ( Left The Lycett & Conaty radial gear , with which S.M.E.T. Nos. 1–16 were originally fitted and ( right ) the Warner gear which replaced it in the 1920s . |
| 24 | The farm 's now seven times bigger than it was when his grandfather ran it in the 1920's . |
| 25 | Even councils which modernised their trams in the 1930s , such as Glasgow and Leeds , abandoned them in the 1950s . |
| 26 | As recession-hit Britain steadied itself in the seventies , the Gedge family made a drastic move . |
| 27 | The party has now discarded the leaders with overly Nazi political pasts who controlled it in the 1970s . |