Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Danish-born Sir Andrew Ogard , who served in France and was knighted at the Battle of Verneuil , where incidentally Fastolf was promoted banneret , received letters of denization in 1433 and held offices in France worth £1,000 annually . |
| 2 | Anselm left England in October 1097 and reached Cluny in time for Christmas . |
| 3 | Later in November Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao visited Paris on Nov. 26 and held talks with President Mitterrand . |
| 4 | Hrawi visited France on Oct. 21-22 and held talks with President Mitterrand on French military and financial aid for the reconstruction of the Lebanon . |
| 5 | Lamplugh was born in Octon in 1615 and became Archbishop of York in 1688 . |
| 6 | Oxford had fled into exile in 1471 but was arrested after his involvement in the unrest of 1473 and sent prisoner to Hammes , one of the Calais fortresses , where he remained until his escape in 1484 . |
| 7 | Oxford had fled into exile in 1471 but was arrested after his involvement in the unrest of 1473 and sent prisoner to Hammes , one of the Calais fortresses , where he remained until his escape in 1484 . |
| 8 | The Amir paid his first visit to Egypt on Aug. 28-30 and held talks with President Hosni Mubarak on the Lebanon and on relations between their two countries . |
| 9 | A E Hook & Co , which had been set up in 1922 and ran offices in Sandown , Ryde and Newport , was earning a respectable fee income of around £600,000 but had decided that the island did not offer prospects for further material growth . |
| 10 | The one remaining example , No 120 , was built in 1899 and entered service in August of that year . |
| 11 | The realignment , the 12th since the establishment of the EMS in March 1979 [ see pp. 30010-11 ] , was decided on Jan. 5 and took effect on Jan. 8 . |
| 12 | A delegation of Ukrainian Supreme Soviet deputies , led by the deputy chair Volodimir Hrynov , visited Crimea on Feb. 5 and held talks with members of the Crimean Supreme Soviet . |
| 13 | The General Body of Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations had been formed in 1727 and included ministers from Baptist , Congregational and Presbyterian chapels in London . |
| 14 | More controversy arose when Thornton came before the court of the King 's Bench in November 1817 and demanded ordeal by battle — open to the subject of an ‘ appeal of murder ’ but not claimed since Charles I 's reign . |
| 15 | His father , Peter , was a stylish midfield back in Gala 's Border Championship side of 1966–67 and a brilliant sevens exponent , while Rob Moffat toured with Scotland in the Far East in 1977 and coached Townsend at Galashiels Academy and Scottish Schools . |
| 16 | Iraq 's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait caused a dramatic increase in oil prices ; the " marker " price of North Sea Brent crude , which had fallen to $16.60 per barrel on June 5 , rose to $24 per barrel on Aug. 3 and passed $30 per barrel on Aug. 22 . |
| 17 | The Secretary-General of the Western European Union ( WEU ) , Willem van Eekelen , made an official visit to Bulgaria on Oct. 31-Nov. 3 and held talks with Zhelev . |
| 18 | He joined in the pursuit of Piers Gaveston [ q.v. ] in 1312 and served Lancaster in Scotland in 1318 . |
| 19 | Adventure and possibility lay before them , as they had not lain before Liz 's sister Shirley , who married at nineteen and stayed on in Northam , or before Dora Sutcliffe who left school at fifteen and sold sweets in Woolworth 's until she married Shirley 's husband 's brother Steve . |
| 20 | Nightmare Nick , three ahead at the eighth , took 42 on the back nine and left Jimenez to pocket £100,000 with a 274 aggregate . |
| 21 | The leaders of the four parties met again on Feb. 28 and reached agreement in principle to restart the political negotiations , if assurances were received from Major and the UK Labour Party leader , Neil Kinnock , that any talks would continue on the same basis after the UK general election . |
| 22 | The Chinese Premier Li Peng , visited Amman , the capital of Jordan , on July 6-7 and held talks with Masri on regional arms control , the Middle East peace process and ways to boost co-operation between the two countries . |
| 23 | It has also cut manufacturing lead times from 17 weeks to two and trebled output per operator . |
| 24 | While not large , the business is a healthy performer : in the 12 months to February 1990 it turned over £3.8 million and made £158,000 after tax . |
| 25 | It kicked off in October of 1990 and got $200,000 in venture money from a local government agency called Connecticut Innovations . |
| 26 | The family 's first album , The Simpsons Sing The Blues , which was released by Geffen Records in 1990 and went Gold with UK sales of 170,000 , featured BB King , Joe Walsh and Dr John . |
| 27 | Alured was commissioned captain of horse 10 August 1642 and became colonel in May 1643 . |