Example sentences of "be [verb] in [num] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pembroke himself spent three years -in captivity , and although he was ransomed in 1375 he died soon afterwards of an illness worsened by the rigours of his imprisonment . |
| 2 | I have just bought a SWB Petrol III although it was made in 1977 I do n't think its had a very hard life , it has only 45,000 miles on the clock and going by its condition I think that 's about right . |
| 3 | And it was in fifteen it was built in fifteen I think about fifteen sixty . |
| 4 | ‘ When the Institution was founded in 1824 it cost a guinea a year to be a Governor . |
| 5 | After James was born in 1983 she intended to return after maternity leave fairly quickly , but at the time Edelman 's was in the process of changing — two senior partners had died , and two others had gone into industry . |
| 6 | Since the legislation was introduced in 1965 it has been revised , more recently in recognition of its discriminatory nature . |
| 7 | Since halofantrine was introduced in 1989 we do not see how data collected in 1990 go against our hypothesis that drug pressure led to the resistance we observed in 1992 . |
| 8 | When war was declared in 1914 he replied to a Royal Naval Air Service advertisement for engineers . |
| 9 | Our two children , Virginia and Peter were born during the war and after Franklin was demobbed in 1946 we moved to Peterborough where he works for an engineering company . |
| 10 | When Mr Chatichai was elected in 1988 he arranged an informal slicing of the pie with the armed forces . |
| 11 | When the White Paper on Educational Reconstruction was published in 1943 it contained references to three possible ‘ types ’ of secondary schools — grammar , technical , and modern . |
| 12 | This came to an end during the Seven Years War ; and although it was refounded in 1775 it seems to have been designed merely to produce men capable of filling such relatively minor posts as those at Warsaw and The Hague , where it was not necessary for the Prussian representative to be of high social rank . |
| 13 | By 1668 the Company had collapsed ; when its successor , the Royal Africa Company , was launched in 1672 it had to tidy up the debts outstanding as well as restore the trade in gold and slaves from West Africa . |