Example sentences of "[vb past] in the [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A VOLCANO that erupted in the Philippines last week , killing more than 60 people , exploded again yesterday in blasts of superheated steam , smoke and ash . |
| 2 | He even played in the club second fifteen as a prop in preference to being at lock for the first although , when the senior side was in relegation danger , he acceded to the club selectors ' request to revert to lock to help them to safety . |
| 3 | Chris Horn and his CCG staff of some 110 joined in the celebration last December , when the UK and French tunnel engineers broke through to link up the Channel Tunnel Marine Service Tunnel . |
| 4 | The double-sided nature of the sixteen-year-old boy who arrived in the History Eighth at St. Paul 's among a group of conventionally well-educated youths two years his senior — who seemed to him grimly earnest and thinking only of work and success and speaking in more re fined voices than he was used to — is clearly shown by Thomas 's two attempts at writing fiction , The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans ( 1913 ) dedicated to ‘ My Father and my Mother ’ with its epigraph from Hardy , ‘ But now — O never again ’ , and an unpublished work of ‘ Fiction ’ ( his title ) which he abandoned in the early summer of 1914 . |
| 5 | A TENTATIVE economic recovery began in the shops last month , when retail sales showed their first year-on-year rise since last September and their strongest increase since May 1992 , the month after the last general election , the Confederation of British Industry claimed yesterday . |
| 6 | LABOUR 'S Barry Jones protested in the Commons last night at British Aerospace 's decision to sell Corporate Jets , of Broughton . |
| 7 | Er , oh yes , they lived in the station next you see . |
| 8 | It was my friend Nellie who lived in the yard next to ours . |
| 9 | Among his young parishioners was Whittington 's famous son , William Sturgeon , the physicist who lived in the cottage next to the Rectory and befriended the Horton family . |
| 10 | A Hindu family lived in the house next to Eva . |
| 11 | We see that the Civil rights [ Disabled Persons ] Bill , which was designed to introduce legislation of this kind , failed in the Commons last week , but problems for people with disabilities at work still exist ’ . |
| 12 | I read in the papers last week benzene , the benzene is used in unleaded petrol . |
| 13 | What got in the press last week in fact was a few days late , it had all been sorted out . |
| 14 | The former writer and fund manager , now deputy chairman of the renamed Maddox Group , has just backed his younger brother , Paul , and a partner in buying the Hush Puppy factory in Kilmarnock from Burlington International , the shoemaker which called in the receiver last month . |
| 15 | Grosvenor High School headmaster Ken Reid called in the police last week after pupils confessed to being offered soft drugs by another pupil . |
| 16 | It broke in the tabloids first , where it would do the most damage . |
| 17 | State banks , much to their chagrin , have been ordered to provide cheap insurance for pilgrims to Mecca : some 800 Indonesians died in the haj last year . |
| 18 | His wife Agnes , also 70 , died in the hospital last Tuesday . |
| 19 | BRITISH yuppies yearning for that charming little place they saw in the Dordogne last summer have probably never heard of Compagnie Bancaire . |
| 20 | As an example of this problem Poulantzas cites the negotiations which resulted in the French Sixth Plan . |
| 21 | Apart from having a detective , who lodged in the room next door at Trinity , he lived like everyone else — except that yet again his course was interrupted . |
| 22 | TV aerials : one of the drama groups did a sketch about James Logie Baird who invented the television , and the man who lodged in the room next door to him kept on seeing pictures flashing on his wall and they dragged him off to the lunatic asylum 'cos they thought he was seeing things , hallucinating . |
| 23 | I recall clearly the photograph of the pit-head that appeared in the newspaper next day ; but the impression etched indelibly into my four-year-old mind was the sight I beheld on the Sunday following . |
| 24 | For example , the 1987/88 Programme of Work included a major review of the modules in Personal and Social Development ( PSD ) ; the fruits of this review appeared in the catalogue last April and the new and revised modules are being used for the first time this session . |
| 25 | First of all because we said in the minutes last night , er last week , last time whenever it was . |
| 26 | ‘ So you slept in the bed last night . |
| 27 | Foreshadowed in The Bookseller last week , the much touted ‘ unilevel playing field ’ was a preoccupation of the presidents of both trade associations in their addresses at the start of the conference . |
| 28 | Kate sat in the back next to the luggage , but Ace had stationed himself in front with the pilot . |
| 29 | This was what the bear-leader seemed to be asking of the passenger he now approached , the man who sat in the seat next to the doors . |