Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nabiyev completed a two-day visit to Iran on June 30 and went on to Pakistan , returning to Tajikistan on July 4 . |
| 2 | He said later he saw the 109s and took off for home . |
| 3 | Mr Massey , who had joined the group in 1985 and ended up as group finance director , recalls the early stages : ‘ When Anthony Jacobs mentioned selling , I talked to him about the possibility of an MBO . |
| 4 | This phenomenon occurred twice in the 1980s : Dee Marsh-Mickle Trafford was closed in 1984 but reopened mainly for steel coil traffic in 1986 , and Annbank-Mauchline closed in 1985 but came back into use as a Railfreight Coal asset in 1988 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By contrast , Jack Nicklaus made an eagle three and went on to birdie the next two holes , turning around a deficit of four shots to win the tournament . |
| 7 | She earned a degree from the Sacred Heart Academy in Washington in 1917 and went back to New York , starring in Penrod , Dear Brutus , On The Firing Line and The Wren . |
| 8 | But we got over it and I finished my school at fourteen and came back to work at home . |
| 9 | He was appointed managing director of United Biscuits in 1964 and took over as chairman in 1972 . |
| 10 | The family firm of M. Pearson & Son Ltd was started by his father in 1922 and built up by Lawrence to be one of the largest family companies in the North East . |
| 11 | Marjorie Thompson was born in St Louis , Missouri in 1957 and grew up in California in a politically Republican family . |
| 12 | Is he aware that , in the case of telecoms , the price control formula started at retail prices index minus 3 and went on to RPI minus 4.5 and only recently has been increased to RPI minus 6.25 ? |
| 13 | As he led the field towards the fourth of the twenty-one fences — a privet hedge nearly six feet high — the bit snapped in two and fell out of Mandarin 's mouth , leaving Winter with over three miles to cover and no means of control , the reins dangling uselessly in his hands . |
| 14 | The profits were struck after reorganisation costs of £1.98 million and fed through to earnings per share of 1.9p , replacing losses of 2.1p last time . |
| 15 | ‘ I sold for £25 million and bought back for £17 million . |
| 16 | The committee reported in October 19806 and came down in favour of setting up a national body , to be known as the Committee for Colleges and Polytechnics ( CCP ) which would devise a more rational system of national funding . |
| 17 | Oscar Santamaría left his post as Justice Minister on Jan. 24 and took over as Minister for the Presidency on Jan. 28 . |