Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is there no socialism in the United States ? remains as pertinent a question for Marxists as when Werner Sombart , then a Marxist , first asked it in 1904 . |
| 2 | She had been studying architecture in Paris when he first met her in 1958 . |
| 3 | Francis Maude , now in charge of the Citizen 's Charter , first fought it in 1983 , mainly to gain experience . |
| 4 | An explanation for the phenomenon ( sometimes known as Kondratiev waves after the economist who first identified them in 1925 ) was proposed by Joseph Schumpeter and has since been adopted , extended , and supported by empirical studies by Christopher Freeman and some of his colleagues at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University . |
| 5 | When the new owners who proposed to convert the barn first saw it in 1978 , the whole structure had been used for stabling horses , and accordingly , brick partitions had been erected to form stalls inside . |
| 6 | The world 's highest peak has been scaled many times since Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first conquered it in 1953 . |
| 7 | The Prehen club 's record in the Fred Daly youth championship ( under 18 ) is second to none since John Gallagher 's squad first won it in 1986 . |
| 8 | Dear Willis — As I am informed by those who ought to know that you have " taken the ground " somewhere near London River , I expect you can tell me the whereabouts of the dear old Fortuna , built 1892 , rigged when I last saw her in 1920 as a square foresail brigantine . |