Example sentences of "[noun prp] in the early [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dunkirk in the early summer of 1940 meant the arrival of an exhausted Belgian soldier , who was a teacher and helped me with my French . |
| 2 | We arranged ourselves in the seats and as we headed for Shellerton in the early dark I told her calmly , incompletely and without terrors , the gist of what had befallen us in Sam 's boatyard . |
| 3 | Tom Crilly came to Crystal Palace in the early summer of 1928 along with two other men from Derby County — Jimmy Gill , a speedy little inside-right and Harry Thoms , a veteran centre-half . |
| 4 | The village of Flushing , as seen from Falmouth in the early morning , with mist rising from the harbour . |
| 5 | The Portrait of Kahnweiler , painted in Paris soon after Picasso 's return from Cadaquès in the early autumn of 1910 , may have helped Picasso towards a solution of his problem , since in dealing with a particular individual he was forced to find a less difficult and hermetic means of expression ; in any case the portrait serves to illustrate what steps Picasso took to make his work once again more legible . |
| 6 | I arrived at Annat in the early afternoon and was disappointed not to find any offers of refreshment on display . |
| 7 | In England in the early part of the eighteenth century the crown occasionally gave some help , in a haphazard way , to suitable young would-be diplomats to travel in preparation for a career in government service . |
| 8 | TAG creates a specific workshop programme for each production which offers pupils a platform for creative expression while investigating one man 's account of Scottish rural and town life and some of the issues that affected Scotland in the early part of the century . |
| 9 | A bus travelling from Haifa to Nahariya in the early spring of 1948 was stopped by Arabs who took the five Jewish passengers from the vehicle and cut their throats . |
| 10 | [ M. W. Flinn , Men of Iron : the Crowleys in the Early Iron Industry , 1962 . ] |
| 11 | Since its discovery by Avogadro in the early part of the nineteenth century , this knowledge has also become a major problem for homoeopathic practitioners . |
| 12 | The Huddersfield party arrived in Paris in the early morning after a journey of nearly twenty-four hours by train and boat , and spent the first day sightseeing . |
| 13 | Erm , but I think we 've got , we 've got erm Cowan Bridge in the early part of Lowood and I think we 've got really Roe Head School at the end Lowood , as it were . |
| 14 | They came to Anoch in the early afternoon , having to break their journey early , because the opportunities for food and lodging were not evenly distributed between Fort Augustus and Glenelg : Johnson says , ‘ the only house , where we could be entertained , was not further off than a third of the way ’ . |
| 15 | We enter Venice in the early morning and the light does a graceful palais glide along the sea , over the marsh lands . |
| 16 | He sent me to Andrus in the early part of the night because he knew Andrus lacked women . ’ |
| 17 | If you have the time the line 2 ( Green line ) metro to Porta Genova in the early morning particularly if your trip to Milan is in the winter , and walk the short distance to the Darsena . |
| 18 | Certainly Havelock Ellis in the early part of this century was able to write that it ‘ scarcely appears to excite profound repulsion in a large proportion of the population of civilised countries ’ , and he mentioned specifically that working-class women often resorted to it . |
| 19 | The hydrofoil left Narvik in the early evening bound for Svolvær , on what turned out to be one of the loveliest journeys I have ever taken . |
| 20 | This study is concerned ostensibly with the political development of West Ham in the early interwar years but , I hope , not merely that . |
| 21 | The received opinion among veterinary surgeons who have given any thought to the role of John Hunter in the early life of the Veterinary College agrees with the statement expressed in 1831 by Youatt , that Hunter was the ‘ life and soul ’ of the founding and development of the London Veterinary College . |
| 22 | A similar comment can be made on the fierce struggle for women 's suffrage in Britain in the early part of this century . |
| 23 | The model of life in rural society represented in box 14 undoubtedly fitted Britain in the early part of this century and fits some more remote rural communities in Britain today . |
| 24 | Someone went to a car-rental firm in North Oxford in the early afternoon and hired a Vauxhall Cavalier . |
| 25 | His gallantry in the ensuing conflict won him the MC , but he was killed while crossing the Sambre and Oise canal near Ors in the early morning of 4 November — one week before the armistice , and two years before the first volume of his work was published . |
| 26 | After troops had moved into Algiers in the early afternoon Chadli declared a state of siege , giving the military emergency powers for the following four months , including the power to ban strikes in services and to dissolve municipal councils and political parties . |
| 27 | The harmful effects of clearing forests had already become apparent in Europe in the early part of the century . |
| 28 | It was the dramatic and unexpected fall of France in the early summer of 1940 which persuaded the British leadership as a whole that , whatever the cost , it was now imperative to secure American assistance . |
| 29 | MOLLY PICON , the diminutive Jewish-American actress who has died at Lancaster , Pennsylvania , aged 93 , was the leading exponent of Yiddish drama during its golden age in New York in the early part of the century ; an outstanding performer on the international variety stage between the World Wars ; and a notable legitimate player on Broadway and in London in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 30 | En route , lunch at Kenya 's famous Mount Kenya Safari Club , arriving at Samburu in the early evening . |