Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] [vb past] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with .
2 In 1888 he played in three tests for the Australians touring in England and he was capped three times for England , playing in South Africa in 1895–6 and in the West Indies in 1896–7 .
3 When we were taking away three we went in this direction , for three .
4 From 1871 to 1882 he sailed in Arctic waters .
5 In early 1988 we reported in this journal the short term outcome in 33 patients referred to the National Heart Hospital between late 1984 and the end of 1986 and who were accepted for urgent cardiac transplantation .
6 On 27 March 1791 he wrote in this capacity to William Pitt , first minister , detailing improvements in the impress system .
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