Example sentences of "[noun prp] [num] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in March 1866 he offered eight to the town and the Local Government Board agreed to lay on free water . |
| 2 | In March 1886 she became a columnist for the Illustrated London News , writing the Ladies ' Notes , a post which she held until 1918 . |
| 3 | During the three years he was at Cambridge he wrote only nine poems , for he was spending fourteen hours a day on political activities , and in March 1935 he became a full member of the Communist party of Great Britain . |
| 4 | In March 1925 he beat a Conservative mediocrity in an election for secretary of the Union , in Michaelmas 1925 he was vice-president , in Lent 1926 president . |
| 5 | He was thought to be reacting to a resolution passed by the European Parliament on March 12 which deplored the " unacceptable repression " of opposition in the country . |
| 6 | In March 1801 he announced that Hartley was ‘ overthrown ’ and that ‘ Newton was a mere materialist . |
| 7 | In March 1993 we announced our intention to offer for sale our interests in the Markham field , and adjacent uncontracted discoveries , proceeds from which will improve our financial position in 1993 . |
| 8 | On Friday 24 March 1933 they set up an experiment in which a mixture of ethylene and benzaldehyde was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres at 170°C in the hope that the two substances would combine together . |
| 9 | On 16 March 1933 they brought in armed Polish police to protect their Harbour Board officers , and saying they feared the Nazis were planning an armed raid on the Polish ammunition dump , they reinforced their garrison on Westerplatte by bringing in 120 soldiers aboard the destroyer Wilia . |
| 10 | In March 1972 he made a £360 million offer for the Red Barrel brewer , winning control three months later . |
| 11 | This was put right in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII who left ten days out of the year . |
| 12 | In the autumn of 1342 Edward III himself did so , winning over parts of the duchy and leaving Englishmen in many of the castles and garrisons , including Brest , the port destined to remain in friendly hands for much of the next half century or so . |
| 13 | Feeling himself threatened , Peter appealed for help to Edward III who authorised the Black Prince , since 1362 prince ( and effective ruler ) of Aquitaine , to intervene . |
| 14 | In surviving the conspicuous favour of Edward II in order to go on to win that of Edward III he had followed a course unusual enough to suggest both his high abilities and his political dexterity . |
| 15 | It was the Scottish King Ewen III who dreamt up the idea of the right of the first night , around the year 875 . |
| 16 | On Jan. 7 she declared her intention to contest the presidency , and expressed the hope that she could forge a united opposition coalition . |
| 17 | On Jan. 17 the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) welcomed " the start of military operations to liberate Kuwait " and on Jan. 26 it reaffirmed the " international legitimacy " of all UN resolutions [ see also p. 37927-28 ] . |
| 18 | This gave rise to one situation involving a UK registered BAC 1–11 which had crashed near Milan when the investigating magistrate seized the flight data recorder . |
| 19 | INVESTIGATORS have determined that an explosion destroyed the UTA DC-10 which crashed in the Sahara Desert on 19 September , killing all 171 people on board , but there is no evidence that a bomb was responsible . |
| 20 | On Jan. 27 , President Leonid Kravchuk appointed new commanders for the three military districts of Ukraine , and on Jan. 31 he demanded the dismissal of Adml. |
| 21 | No further allusion was made to the issue of fealty , and Edward II himself replied ‘ with an amiable countenance , : ‘ We willingly wish this to be done [ i.e. the alliance to be renewed ] , for it is right . ’ |
| 22 | The exceptions were the Frenchmen and Savoyards in the service of Henry III , Edward I and Edward II , such as Jean de Grilly or Maurice and Amaury de Craon , who served as seneschals ; or the Italian creditors of Edward I and Edward II who held the financial office of constable as a means whereby their loans were assigned for repay-ment from Gascon revenues . |
| 23 | On Jan. 17 it met Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto before moving on to meet mujaheddin leaders in Peshawar . |
| 24 | In a speech to the European Parliament on Jan. 17 he had stated " that there is a place for East Germany in the Community should it so wish " . |
| 25 | By Jan. 17 he had also met with Ait Ahmed and with Ben Bella ( leader of the electorally unimportant Movement for Democracy in Algeria — MDA ) . |
| 26 | In the summer , I received a letter from Mrs. X which disturbed me greatly . |
| 27 | Edward IV himself fell into the rebels ' hands and was sent prisoner first to Warwick castle and then to the Nevilles ' northern stronghold of Middleham in Wensleydale . |
| 28 | Edward IV himself fell into the rebels ' hands and was sent prisoner first to Warwick castle and then to the Nevilles ' northern stronghold of Middleham in Wensleydale . |
| 29 | But if it had been Edward IV who wanted the immediate accession of his heir , the events after his death say relatively little about the Woodvilles ' intentions . |
| 30 | But if it had been Edward IV who wanted the immediate accession of his heir , the events after his death say relatively little about the Woodvilles ' intentions . |