Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Bede , Wulfhere reigned seventeen years ( HE 111 , 24 ) , which led him to 675 for Wulfhere 's death , reckoning forward from 658 , but if Wulfhere did not become king until 659 a seventeen-year reign would suggest 676 for his death . |
| 2 | That hard work has paid dividends for Washington , who has already scored notable career wins over Connors , Chang , Cherkasov , Wheaton and Lendl , and who claimed his first ever senior title in Memphis in February , a win which moved him from 38 to 23 on the IBM/ATP Computer , his highest ever showing . |
| 3 | Explosions of some sort were almost unavoidable if the principle of nationality was to be extended beyond the states which embodied it in 1880 . |
| 4 | It could have been the extra garlic I 'd put in the Rogan Josh which woke me at 2.06 a.m. , but it was probably the noise Billy Tuckett made falling through the bathroom skylight and killing himself . |
| 5 | Such then was the equipment and the ethos with which the Brewery faced the 50 years of violent growth which lifted it by 1914 to first place in the world league . |
| 6 | The Nigerian Curriculum Conference and the National Workshop on Primary Education which followed it in 1971 are important for a number of reasons : |
| 7 | To his professional duties he had added the role of Departmental Safety Officer , and it was this experience which took him in 1977 to Imperial College in the new post of College Safety Director . |
| 8 | Comfortable Government majorities on two key motions followed a searing fightback by the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , during raucous exchanges which saw him at one stage on the ropes in the face of a furious tirade by , alternately , the Labour leader , John Smith , and the shadow chancellor , Gordon Brown . |
| 9 | The USC had on April 18 repulsed an offensive by Siyad Barre 's Somali National Front ( SNF ) which brought it within 30 km of Mogadishu , and had then pursued Siyad Barre and 1,200 of his supporters to the Kenyan border . |
| 10 | Its success led at once to his appointment as editor of the fifth edition of Grove 's Dictionary of Music and Musicians , a task which occupied him until 1954 . |
| 11 | They belong to the British Museum , which bought them in 1816 from Lord Elgin , as every schoolboy knows . |
| 12 | There was a quiet wistfulness about her , a reticence , a grace which reminded him of one of Leonardo 's Madonnas . |
| 13 | Greenidge and Lloyd top-scored as West Indies declared at 251 for 9 , and then Holding , Roberts and Holder , restricted MCC to 197 , only Gilliat , the captain , having a substantial knock , and Amiss ducking into a bouncer which left him with four stitches in his scalp . |
| 14 | I had a real ambition to ride round Badminton , but had a terrible fall which left me with two broken legs before I could do that . |
| 15 | In order to extricate himself Rafsanjani gave details of the entire American arms-supply operation to the Lebanese magazine Al-Shiraa which published them on 3 November , the day after Jacobsen 's release . |