Example sentences of "[noun prp] [num ord] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Prince Charles first stayed with Mr MacKillop on a secret trip in 1987 when he helped to plant potatoes , cut peat and dip sheep . |
| 32 | It had been built when Alphonse Mobuto first came to power and quickly became known throughout the country as La Boucherie , the Butcher 's Shop , because of the number of anti-government dissidents who were tortured then murdered there by the feared and hated Security Police . |
| 33 | Howard Carter first went to Egypt in 1891 to work as an artist , painting scenes in watercolour of the antiquities and landscape to sell to tourists . |
| 34 | Reacher said : ‘ When Cloughie first came to Forest , several clubs tried to touch him up , but he honoured his contract . |
| 35 | Tony O'Brien first got into photography because he did n't know what he wanted to do . |
| 36 | Serialled N240 , the Severn first flew in July 1930 , and a series of trials followed at the MAEE . |
| 37 | just talk to them , just so short staffed , I do n't know when Jim last got off duty on time |
| 38 | Fair Isle first came into prominence as a bird migration station as long ago as 1912 , following publication of a book by William Eagle-Clarke , keeper of the natural history department of the Royal Scottish Museum . |
| 39 | Julie first came into contact with the power of crystals just over a year ago , when she happened to visit a psychic fair . |
| 40 | Gloucester first came to prominence in 1469 . |
| 41 | Gloucester first came to prominence in 1469 . |
| 42 | Dylan Thomas first lived in Laugharne in the spring of 1938 , moving to Sea View shortly afterwards , but did not live there permanently until 1949 when he moved to the Boat House . |
| 43 | Thomas first appeared before West London magistrates in April last year when he was granted bail on a charge of raping a 14-year-old schoolgirl . |