Example sentences of "and [vb past] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By such standards both footballers and cricketers , provided they were among the minority who avoided injury and played in the first team , were quite well off for a few years . |
| 2 | Andrew Gallagher on the right wing , beat two tackles and scored in the first five minutes of the game , following a neat Jeremy Hastings pick-up . |
| 3 | The system for investing students as or granting was thoroughly reformed and reorganized in the mid-sixteenth century , as mentioned below , but it existed in some form , difficult to define precisely , from well before that time . |
| 4 | This part of the country is extraordinarily rich in small sects that grew up and flourished in the last two or three centuries . |
| 5 | But the equaliser was always on offer and arrived in the 73rd minute . |
| 6 | After assurances from US officials that the USA would continue to monitor the peace process , the FMLN demobilized its last contingent of around 2,000 combatants and turned in the last of its weapons ( including 55 surface-to-air missiles ) to the UN on Dec. 14 . |
| 7 | It was mentioned in Domesday Book , badly affected by the Black Death in 1350 , and depopulated in the fifteenth century . |
| 8 | The car pushed them through the garden wall and they were flung into the air and landed in the next garden . |
| 9 | It 's jazz and soul as a street thing , a club thing , ’ he says , ‘ which is where both those forms of music started and thrived in the first place . ’ |
| 10 | The offensive was launched on 18 June but was deeply unpopular with much of the rank and file and collapsed in the first week of July . |
| 11 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 12 | In vitro fertilization was pioneered by Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards , and resulted in the first ‘ test-tube baby ’ , Louise Brown , being born in 1978 . |
| 13 | Their inspirational demonstrations and innovative classes were long remembered by all those privileged to have been there , and resulted in the first regular Medau Adult Education class being established in Dagenham ESSEX in 1935 . |
| 14 | They are placed in public spaces often in the centre of villages , to commemorate the brave local people who fought and died in the First and Second World Wars . |
| 15 | After winning the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Prize in 1964 , she found herself in great demand abroad as well as at home , and sang in the first performance of Handel 's Messiah in Israel . |
| 16 | Advertising and public relations can try to improve or change the image of a client but this is always limited by the nature of how the reputation was built and earned in the first place and how the client will really act in the future . |
| 17 | However , economic activity began to slow in mid-1990 and stagnated in the fourth quarter . |
| 18 | Born in America 's Midwest , Seberg , who committed suicide in 1979 , came to prominence as Jean Paul Belmondo 's co-star in the French new wave classic Breathless and starred in the first ever X-rated movie released in the States , Birds In Peru . |
| 19 | The Special Needs Unit , attached to the College of Further Education , is actually decking their Special Needs Unit out as a rain forest , both before and after , so there 's the rainforest in all its glory , and then the rainforest after it 's been chopped down and destroyed in the next room , so the Special Needs Unit are really enjoying that . |