Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a further three she felt she had sufficient evidence to suggest that she could have supported the client at home but was overruled by others . |
| 2 | No we taped er or forty five what did he say ? |
| 3 | In the early 1900s she began her research on the formation of sand ripples on the seashore caused by the oscillatory movement of water , and this led her to develop the ‘ Ayrton fan ’ in 1915 , a hand-operated device for expelling poisonous gases from the trenches . |
| 4 | In the early nineteen-sixties they liked their policy centralised ( and linked to manpower projections ) and their institutions big . |
| 5 | Ric Sissons 's team-mates in the Sussex University teams of the early 1970s who christened him ‘ Red Ric ’ were clearly unaware of the fact that the far left have been no more immune to the game 's charms than any other section of the community . |
| 6 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 7 | In the early 1590s he turned his attention to the Maritimes and New England and his long proposal for colonizing and developing the commerce of this region is one of the fullest and most sensible colonial projects of the period . |
| 8 | The handsome young Annamese in his early twenties who offered his hand promptly to Joseph and his mother had the piercing gaze and broad forehead of a scholar . |
| 9 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
| 10 | Waugh perceived a resemblance between the two books himself , and in his letter to Orwell on Nineteen Eighty-Four he reproached him in a jibe as potent as any he ever made to friend or enemy : ‘ Men who love a crucified God need never think of torture as all-powerful . ’ |
| 11 | After becoming a socialist in the early 1880s he retained what he called ‘ an Englishman 's wholesome horror of government interference and centralisation . ’ |
| 12 | In the early 1930s he turned his attention towards bibliography , becoming both special lecturer at the London School of Librarianship and joint editor of the important , if short-lived , series Oxford Books in Bibliography , as well as writing his classic , The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography ( 1935 ) . |
| 13 | And the chap sort of the head of social services or local government officer , he said well in the nineteen nineties he said it is still possible , if you want to keep your children away from school . |
| 14 | By the early 1950s he had his own firm , loading ships . |
| 15 | In the early 1950s he used his creation to improve the size of the Aberdeen Angus and began to outcross with the red Beevbilde to produce a new breed of black beef cattle which combined Angus quality with the Lincoln 's fast weight gains . |
| 16 | But I do n't think it 's three thousand I thought it was four thousand . |
| 17 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 18 | Er seven ninety nine I got it |
| 19 | Fifty thousand we set it up to . |
| 20 | Burke and the many hundreds who signed her petition . |
| 21 | It was , ironically , an exhibition match at Ayr in the late Seventies which curtailed his interest in the playing side . |
| 22 | His artistic career began with a series of paintings based on the thirteenth-century sculpture of the elegant countess of Uta on the façade of Naumburg cathedral , a photograph of which had been lent to him by the young artist Vlady , but in the late fifties he turned his attention to Spanish art . |
| 23 | And I missed that in the seventies and eighties , and my wife said you know you 're mad , towards the late eighties she told me off , she said you 're mad , you 'll spend your life looking for something that you 've already got , for god 's sake just concentrate on what you r are , you 're an actor , do that , perform . |
| 24 | One seventy nine he put them up to . |
| 25 | Yeah one seventy nine he put them to , and then he put them up to one eighty two or summat and then they 've gone up to one eighty nine I think they are . |
| 26 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 27 | When I first encountered de Santillana 's paper in the late 1960s I found it both fascinating and suggestive . |
| 28 | Mid to mi mid to late sixties she bought her house and just this is their second house and , you know , that 's all the mortgage was . |
| 29 | or a target to be aimed at because when I saw the sixty seven I remembered it 's the number of the song that begins lord bless and pity us . |
| 30 | So apart from those three we said what else is there Ma |