Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [be] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd only been in eighteen months , ’ said the Bishop , in the manner of a man who is used to a longer temporal perspective . |
| 2 | ( Why ? — ‘ The last time a policeman came here was in 1936 ; very few people know what happened to him . ’ ) |
| 3 | Independent experts from the Brazil Institute for Amazonian Studies , however , asserted that the " real figure of original forest wiped out is between 11 and 12 per cent " . |
| 4 | After 1983 , the ‘ frontiers of the state ’ were , in this respect at least , rolled back as they had not been since 1945 . |
| 5 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 6 | Hardwick 's involvement might have ended there , if it had not been for one of the tradesmen , who addressed a petition to the Company nine months later : his original estimate of £2,514 18 1¼d had left him bearing a loss of £266 6 3¾d . |
| 7 | Martin was for some years tutor to the MacLeods of Skye , and had also been at one time a scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands . |
| 8 | What if it had originally been on one of the other cakes ? |