Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [adj] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kathleen Blanchard collected eighteen thousand signatures from pensioners in Swindon alone and took her petition to Downing Street . |
| 2 | He did not sit in Parliament after Pride 's Purge in December 1648 but took his seat after the readmission of the secluded members in February 1660 , and was re-elected to the Convention Parliament ( April 1660 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Backed by just one woman trainee officer she confronted the suspect in alley off Lawrence Road , the scene of an attack in December 1991 that left her with a smashed up face . |
| 5 | The Red Cross discovered them in Israeli custody in January 1992 and informed their families . |
| 6 | I want to concentrate on the week in Adelaide in January 1933 that brought it all to a head , and the personal dilemma I faced as the Teuter-Press Association correspondent . |
| 7 | A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds . |
| 8 | He made his League debut against Arsenal at Hillsborough in November 1991 and scored his first goal for the club in the third round FA Cup victory over Preston . |
| 9 | In the Russian Federation , for instance , the Tatar Republic adopted a declaration of independence in October 1991 and declared its intention of affiliating independently to the newly established Commonwealth . |
| 10 | Is it not clear , in retrospect , that our right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was absolutely right when she went to Rome in October 1990 and warned our partners that the talks should be about world free trade , and not about cloud cuckoo land — that is , political and economic union , which was doomed to failure in any event ? |
| 11 | A hard tackler and a great distributor of the ball , Jackie was strong in the air too , while he stood out in our defence with his shock of black hair but , to the disappointment of many Palace fans , he moved to Luton Town in October 1968 and finished his career with Cambridge United . |
| 12 | Jim became team captain in succession to Ian in October 1977 and led us up to Division One in 1978–79 as 2nd Division champions , then to the top of the Football League on 29 September 1979 , scoring as spectacular a goal in our 4–1 trouncing of Ipswich Town as any football follower could ever hope to witness . |
| 13 | He was discharged in August 1943 and dedicated his first volume of short stories ( The Stuff to Give the Troops , 1944 ) to Hart-Davis , by then adjutant of the 6th battalion Coldstream Guards , who had saved him from a court martial . |
| 14 | We submitted a manuscript in August 1991 and revised it in October in the light of minor criticisms by the referee(s) , whose report was highly supportive . |
| 15 | A single party , the country 's sole legal political grouping , known as the National Movement for a Development Society ( Mouvement national pour une société de développement — MNSD ) , was formed in August 1988 and held its founding congress in May 1989 , when President Saibou was elected as head of the country 's new supreme ruling body , a half-military and half-civilian Higher Council for National Orientation ( Conseil supérieure d'orientation national — CSON ) . |
| 16 | It sold more than a million copies in Britain alone and won me the Billboard award for best singer/songwriter in America . |
| 17 | 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 . |