Example sentences of "may [num] [coord] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brenda had been born in May 1925 and therefore conceived during the previous August when Helena was still second housemaid at Chesney Hall . |
| 2 | With the bishop of Winchester he presented Kilwardby with his pallium in May 1273 and immediately set out for Burgundy to meet Edward I on his return from crusade . |
| 3 | ( This man became a deacon on 17 December 1289 and a priest on 27 May 1290 and still held that rectory in 1294 . ) |
| 4 | He was baptised by John Kingdon in the chapel 's own ‘ baptistry ’ on Friday 5 May 1780 and officially received into the church two days later . |
| 5 | The removal of 10,000 troops and some 1,000 tanks from East Germany , begun on May 11 and reportedly completed in mid-August , had heralded the East European withdrawals . |
| 6 | The JNA moved in with tanks and sealed off Borovo Selo on May 3 and also occupied villages near Knin , the main town in the " Autonomous Region " . |
| 7 | Formed in May 1983 and formally launched that August , it had grown rapidly into a mass-membership anti-apartheid organization , its initial focus being its opposition to the regime 's " tricameral " constitutional plans [ see p. 32599 ] . |
| 8 | First flown in piston form in May 1959 and then introduced as a turboprop of quite alarming STOL capabilities from May 1961 , the Porter family is still in limited production at Stans and commands very high regard in the market as the ultimate in aerial ‘ jeeps ’ . |