Example sentences of "in [num] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seal was set on his career in 1771 when he was elected president of the newly established Society of Civil Engineers , an exclusive ‘ club ’ admitting by invitation only the most eminent members of the profession . |
| 2 | Mr. Flack 's own interest began in 1934 when he was in court for the libel case brought against the MGM film company who had made a film about Rasputin . |
| 3 | It was edited by the young Jomo Kenyatta , who halted publication in 1934 when he went to England . |
| 4 | The presbyterians also had misgivings , and only came back into the system in 1838 when they were practically guaranteed control of their own schools within it . |
| 5 | The last heard of Gert was in 1943 when he tried and failed to join the RA F. Bloomsbury House urged him to settle for the Pioneers . |
| 6 | Crowe 's long-standing ambition to secure the lease of the royal ironworks in the Forest of Dean was finally rewarded in 1635 when he and his partners obtained the lease after the existing lessees had fallen foul of the royal forest jurisdiction . |
| 7 | Margaret 's career with Salas started in 1948 when she left a senior secretarial job with Cadbury 's Scottish office to take responsibility for all typing staff at head office . |
| 8 | He began his business career in 1948 when he became chief metallurgist at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell . |
| 9 | It became part of the Midland and later the London Midland and Scottish railways until nationalisation in 1948 when it was operated by British Railways . |
| 10 | As England discovered in 1986 when they performed so lamentably at the international sevens tournaments in Sydney , it is just not possible to turn round a few weeks before an event and pick up a team and set off with any expectation of success . |
| 11 | In the US in 1986 when they announced a voluntary retirement incentive ( ‘ VRI ’ in their parlance ) , 13,000 IBMers grabbed it ; then in 88 when IBM consolidated US manufacturing and headquarters , another 7,500 went . |
| 12 | She set a new women 's record for the Twostar in 1986 when she came 2nd in class with Kitty Hampton in Sony Handicam ( ex Ntombifuti ) and in 1987 completed the AZAB in Quixote . |
| 13 | Most of his news-making troubles began in 1986 when he and Madonna embarked on a movie that never lived up to all the hype and publicity that surrounded it , Shanghai Surprise . |
| 14 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 15 | Wimbledon fans will remember Castle 's fine court one performance in 1986 when he led Matts Wilander two sets to one before going down in five . |
| 16 | Mr Mark Rees , of Tunbridge Wells , Kent , made news in 1986 when he took a case to the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 17 | The last time Hambros was so well placed was in 1986 when it advised on another mega-bid , by Hanson for Imperial Group . |
| 18 | The championship renamed yet again in 1986 when it became The Sports-Prototype World Championship , for both drivers and teams . |
| 19 | The restoration was singled out for praise in 1986 when it was highly commended by the Association of Railway Preservation Societies . |
| 20 | The restoration was singled out for praise in 1986 when it was highly commended by the Association of Railway Preservation Societies . |
| 21 | I saw this piece of rock back in 1986 when I went to America with Gerald Costello for the NCMD to help set up the World Council for Metal Detecting . |
| 22 | The national organisation , which represents the whole of the building industry , started in 1866 when it held its initial meeting in the Durham Ox public house in Brownlow Hill . |
| 23 | His name was immortalised in 1886 when he hit 485 in six hours 10 minutes , playing for Hampstead against Stoics , on Aug 4 . |
| 24 | This was the route taken by Suworow 's army in 1799 when he discovered there was no road along the east shore of the Urner Lake ( along the line of the present day Axenstrasse ) from Altdorf . |
| 25 | Sidney and Beatrice Webb surprised the labour movement in 1935 when they added to their earlier works an exhaustive and largely favourable account of the working of soviet society . |
| 26 | He got his sole opportunity in 1599 when he induced Sir Robert Cecil ( later first Earl of Salisbury , q.v. ) to approve a copper coinage scheme for Ireland which was put into operation in 1601 , though he was not able to secure a monopoly for its production . |
| 27 | He was the editor of the Review of Churches and the first tour which he organized was in 1893 when he took a party of 450 people to Rome for Easter . |
| 28 | A British Rail quality manager and former Sunderland nut , he changed allegiance in 1980 when it seemed to him that some Roker players were becoming too mercenary . |
| 29 | Conservationist Dexter Cate of Hawaii was jailed for 100 days in 1980 when he released several hundred dolphins from the bay into which they had been driven before slaughter . |
| 30 | His first film break came in 1980 when he starred in the movie version of his great Broadway success The Pirates of Penzance . |