Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With best figures of 3 for 43 it looked like a case of unfulfilled potential ; but Robinson has been a different proposition this season , and claimed a new career-best of 5 for 48 — and a match return of 9 for 68 — in Yorkshire 's emphatic win over Essex . |
| 2 | The government on Sept. 29 approved an amended budget for 1993 which provided for a further BF21,800 million to cover the budgetary shortfall , including BF5,200 million in social security cuts . |
| 3 | While employed at St Stephen 's , he lived within the parish of St Margaret , Westminster , and he was active in parish life at least from 1522 onwards ; during 1552–4 he served as one of the churchwardens . |
| 4 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 5 | Crown lending was never a major part of Aaron 's business , however , and after 1169 he ceased to be a primary Crown lender , concentrating instead on building up his own vast financial network of agents and clients from his Lincoln base . |
| 6 | But that November evening , the evening it all started , it was raining heavily and just after six I passed through the iron gates and followed the path through the forest of Gothic monuments and gravestones . |
| 7 | After 1914 she concentrated on teaching , but she found time to compile an attitude survey , the Women 's Industrial Council report on Domestic Service ( 1916 ) , and her pamphlet on Village Survey-Making ( 1929 ) encouraged country schools to hunt out information about the past and present of their localities . |
| 8 | Outside , the world was waiting for Mr Major 's victory oration and shortly after 1.00 he made for the front door . |
| 9 | Britain succeeded in creating a Commonwealth ‘ special relationship ’ in civil aviation after 1945 which compensated in part for its inability to obtain international approval for a more regulated global system . |
| 10 | During 1979 I went to Taylor House for a holiday . |
| 11 | Er all that patch along the and during nineteen I started in nineteen fifty three , and about the end of nineteen fifty four , before Christmas , most of the lot that he had left behind , came down . |
| 12 | During 1991 it met in Luxembourg in April [ see pp. 38154-55 ] and in June [ see pp. 38295-97 ] and was scheduled to meet in Maastricht in December . |
| 13 | The People 's Assembly on Nov. 13 approved a budget for 1991 which provided for expenditure of £S84,690 million ( US$7,548 million ) , representing an increase of 37 per cent over the 1990 budget [ see p. 38069 ] . |
| 14 | To the readers of 1850 it represented on the one hand a great Romantic apologia , though the stress on the French Revolution would not have pleased ; on the other hand it could be seen as specifically a mid-Victorian poem , contemporary with the work of Tennyson , George Eliot and Matthew Arnold . |
| 15 | Browne had tentatively suggested the summer of that year as the " deadline " for it , but Eliot was uncertain how quickly he could recover his dramatic skills and , since he often needed to work slowly , he believed the spring of 1949 to be a more appropriate date.Throughout the spring and summer of 1948 he worked on it as consistently as he could , although there were egregious interruptions : in April , for example , he had to make the British Council trip to Aix-en-Provence which had been postponed the previous winter . |
| 16 | At the age of eleven he went to London to work , eventually becoming a butcher employed by Thomas Pickworth , a staunch Calvinist . |
| 17 | Towards the end of 1893 he moved to Liverpool as a freelance . |
| 18 | From the age of eight he began at 5 a.m. despite being so small that special pattens had to be made to enable him to reach the machinery , and he bore the scars of the corporal punishment inflicted on him there for the rest of his life . |
| 19 | From seven to half past eight I work in my garden ; from breakfast till 12 I read & compose ; then work again — feed the pigs , poultry & c , till two o'clock — after dinner work again till Tea-from Tea till supper review . |
| 20 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 21 | In the course of 1986 they succeeded in reaching both , bombing Sirri and compelling Iran to redeploy its ULCC and VLCC storage tankers there . |
| 22 | At the end of 1684 he returned to England , fully qualified , and was taken on by Dr Thomas Sydenham as an assistant in a busy London practice . |
| 23 | Senior stewards are angry that Corporate Jets has not said anything to counter speculation that loss of production could put 600 Corporate Jets jobs at risk and also those of 300 who work for BAe in the main factory , making wings and other business jet parts on contract . |
| 24 | At the end of 1985 he qualified as a solicitor ( ‘ this was the safety net and I had written my thesis on the copyright laws , which has been very useful to me ’ ) , but he had already decided to take the plunge as a full time professional musician . |
| 25 | At the age of 12 he went on holiday to Butlins in Ayr with his parents and had his first taste of competitive success . |
| 26 | At the age of twenty-one he moved to London , working briefly as a civil engineer before joining the Admiralty hydrographers ' department . |
| 27 | At the age of 22 he wrote to his father from Paris : ‘ What annoys me most is that these idiots in France still think I am seven years old , because that is when they first knew me . ’ |
| 28 | In the spring of 1979 he moved from trainer Bobby Donato to V. J. ( ‘ Lefty ’ ) Nickerson in New York , with whom he continued to show his preference for racing on grass rather than on din . |
| 29 | The archbishop of 1101 , with a clear command which required his obedience , was a different man from the Anselm of 1097 who asked for nothing better than an opportunity for escape . |
| 30 | The names and dates tell their own story : the Treason Act of 1842 , passed after an impotent attempt to frighten the sovereign by a young hunchback with a faultily loaded pistol ; the Vagrancy Act of 1824 which allowed the flogging of ‘ incorrigible rogues ’ , commonly elderly tramps , and which has come into more recent notoriety through the ‘ sus ’ laws ; the Diplomatic Privileges Act of 1708 which offered protection to Ambassadors and their servants ; and the Knacker 's Act of 1786 which dealt with the irregular slaughter of horses and cattle . |