Example sentences of "[noun prp] ii [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catherine II sharply increased the number , which reached about 38,000 by the end of the century , and in the nineteenth century steady expansion set in bringing the total to some 114,000 by Nicholas I 's death . |
| 2 | One of the richest made for Julius II later escaped the sack of Rome because it happened to be in pawn at the time . |
| 3 | In his whole life Henry II never fought a battle ; not did Philip until 1214 and although that battle , at Bouvines , turned out to be the victory which crowned his career he did his best to avoid it . |
| 4 | Pope John II strongly analyses the bridegroom/bride motif . |
| 5 | Abel Smith II also became a partner in his family 's bank in Nottingham , whose management he took over on his father 's death in 1757 . |
| 6 | James II even issued a Country Jacobite declaration in April 1693 , promising to do " more for their Constitution , than the most renowned of our Ancestors " , by instituting free elections and frequent Parliaments , and by allowing Parliament to determine the limits of his dispensing power . |