Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I peeled off five hundreds and gave them to the officer . |
| 2 | Son a Southwark hat manufacturer , Vaughan purchased Constable 's ‘ Haywain ’ from Christie 's in 1866 and presented it to the National Gallery , London that year . |
| 3 | Yet he opened his challenge for The Masters with a 75 and closed it with an 81 . |
| 4 | She joined the Community of the Resurrection in 1940 and devoted herself to the training of Primary and Secondary school teachers at Grahamstown Training College . |
| 5 | Women prisoners in Armagh had political status until 1975 but lost it in the following year and the numbers in Armagh rose dramatically during the late seventies . |
| 6 | Mr Rooker , MP for Perry Barr in Birmingham , discovered the existence of the POWs Fund in 1976 and publicised it in the Midlands . |
| 7 | But the Arts Council stepped in to buy the place in 1976 and re-opened it as a traditional theatre with Frank Carson in pantomime in December 1980 . |
| 8 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 9 | At 16 , she was a size 18 and resigned herself to a life of being obsessed with food . |
| 10 | Tolstoy first published ‘ Anna Karenina ’ in 1918 and based it on an event he himself witnessed . |
| 11 | Unionists were therefore beside themselves with joy when the Canadian electorate removed Laurier from office in September 1911 and replaced him with a Conservative , Sir Robert Borden , who now repudiated reciprocity . |
| 12 | His father moved into Liverpool before 1567 and established himself as a merchant , and the younger Edward probably attended a grammar school there before his admission to King 's College , Cambridge , in 1565 . |
| 13 | Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 . |
| 14 | A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds . |
| 15 | Winchelsey learnt of this bull in December 1296 and published it in the assembly of January 1297 , called to consider the royal demand made in November on which they had deferred a decision . |
| 16 | He also purchased seven drawings attributed to Michelangelo from the Woodburn sale at Christie 's in 1887 and gave them to the British Museum ( five are still accepted as autograph ) . |
| 17 | She lit one and carried it into the ballroom , where the silver light from a large moon cast shadows on to the wood floor . |
| 18 | After deliberating for a little while , the priest selected one and carried it towards the fire . |
| 19 | Jotan picked up one and ignited it across a striker embedded in the stonework . |
| 20 | Alexei took one and nocked it to the bow . |
| 21 | albacete have lost one and won one since the last time i mailed . |
| 22 | A generous ( anonymous ) benefactor has purchased MiG21F Fishbed-C Red 77 and MiG-23BN Flogger-H Red 23 and donated them to the Museum , where reassembly is underway . |
| 23 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 24 | As she passed the new couple her beach bag caught the Factor 15 and knocked it off the table . |
| 25 | She removed the veil , tore it in two and threw it on the floor . ’ |
| 26 | They had visited the fifteenth-century pavilion , which had taken them back to the world of 1492 and immersed them in an era that led up to the discovery of America . |
| 27 | Families may be placed high in these hierarchies for a variety of reasons — because they have brought with them the high status they had in their villages , because they have acquired status by helping new families settle here in the fifties and sixties and kept them in a state of perennial obligation , because they have gone up in class and ( as a Sikh woman in Newham told me ) ‘ claim status by pretending to be ultra-devout and criticising others who are less so . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Osenat nevertheless put the paintings up for sale at their estimate , FFr2.5 million and sold them in the space of a few seconds to the town 's Mayor ( who is also , ironically , Chairman of the Board of the Hospital ) , who then donated them to the museum on behalf of the town . |
| 29 | He took it along to Stationers ' Hall on 2 November 1691 and entered it in the Stationers ' Register to establish copyright of a sort : |
| 30 | A two-goal flourish in the 3-0 win at Sheffield Wednesday lifted his Premier League tally to seven and thrust him into the frame for an England debut in Spain on Wednesday . |