Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [num] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For four and five she spells from the other end and for six she again spells the letters . |
| 2 | From about 1380 Master Hugh was in charge of the timber-work for New College , Oxford , and from 1387 he also worked for Bishop William of Wykeham [ q.v. ] at Highclere , Hampshire . |
| 3 | Sir Stephen Fox , who was Member of Parliament for Sarum and served as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury for both King Charles II and William 111 , from 1665 until his death in 1716 , bought the copyhold , in 1682 , or thereabouts , of an estate north-west of Corney House ( on the river front of Old Chiswick ) and behind the first Earl of Burlington 's mansion in Chiswick , and in 1691 he also acquired several acres on the west side of Chiswick Lane , where he sited a mansion with gardens , which he came known as Manor Farm House . |
| 4 | It was not until 1947 that he was selected by Surrey for a Championship match , and in 1948 he twice took five wickets in an innings . |
| 5 | Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 . |
| 6 | His 1932 work had been greeted with great interest and in 1958 he rightly decided that the news from ZETA merited a press conference . |
| 7 | In 1779 it was the more radical of the parliamentary reformers and in 1790 it probably told against supporters of the third effort to do away with religious tests that they tried such unconventional methods . |
| 8 | He also experimented with lighter-than-air flight : he wrote three papers on airships in the Philosophical Magazine ( February 1816–July 1817 ) of Alexander Tilloch [ q.v. ] , and in 1820 he successfully flew a model airship at Brompton . |
| 9 | ‘ I would put Schmeichel in that group and at 27 he still has a lot of time to improve . ’ |
| 10 | It set up a succession of bodies to deal with the problem , but in 1922 it actually cut back expenditure , already insufficient , in this sphere . |
| 11 | The great propagandist for agricultural capitalism naturally fav-oured high cereal prices , but in 1771 he also made the link with high wages , insisting that " great earnings " caused many workers to offer only four or five days ' labour . |
| 12 | In 1947 it had an average daily circulation of 2 , 134,000 copies but in 1961 it only sold 1,394,000 copies . |
| 13 | May be she did not do as well in the major championships as in previous years but in 1990 she still managed to win one Australian , get in to the final of the French and the US Opens , and the semi final of Wimbledon . |
| 14 | But in 1968 he somehow persuaded Columbia to let him direct Easy Rider . |
| 15 | Like most deserted villages Great Stretton was always on the small side , but in 1563 it still contained fifteen families . |