Example sentences of "in [num] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pope Clement III had repossessed the city in 1188 and made the senate his vassals , but Pope Celestine III , an Orsini , had been more or less confined to the city . |
| 2 | Presteigne ( the modern spelling ) had a railway connection , completed in 1875 but planned some years earlier ( see below ) , which lasted right up till Dr Beeching 's Axe . |
| 3 | Sir Charles Robinson bought the estate in 1875 and developed it , naming the new roads as Cluny , St Vast , Stafford , Exeter and Taunton . |
| 4 | He became one of the first Whitworth scholars in 1875 and completed his education at King 's College , University of London . |
| 5 | As Cooke 's name became known through his huge output of taxonomic works , especially the two-volume Handbook of British Fungi ( 1871 ) and the journal Grevillea , which he founded in 1875 and edited himself , he entered into a vast correspondence with distinguished mycologists world-wide . |
| 6 | Organised by Janet Barnes , Keeper of the Ruskin Gallery in Sheffield , the show draws on the collection of the Gallery which Ruskin founded in 1875 and called the St George 's Museum . |
| 7 | He was born in Wales in 1771 but served his apprenticeship in Stamford at the drapery business of James McGuffog , where he stayed for three years , originally at 31 High Street and later on St. Mary 's Street . |
| 8 | He evidently intended that this should be the royal priest Eadsige , who took over some of Æthelnoth 's duties in 1035 and succeeded him in 1038 . |
| 9 | The ‘ Wingfield Castle ’ was built in Hartlepool in 1934 and spent its working life as the Hull-New Holland ferry , or visit the HMS Trincomalee , the oldest British warship afloat , moored in the new Hartlepool Marina development . |
| 10 | I was born in 1934 and lived through a world war . |
| 11 | Seve , who had made four trips to the course during its construction , completed the tough par-73 course in 75 but announced himself satisfied with the lay-out . |
| 12 | This meant a huge rise of £1¼ billion in public-sector wage settlements in 1979–80 and drove inflation up far higher than the Callaghan government had ever done previously . |
| 13 | The Musée Barbier-Mueller is devoting an exhibition to the art of the Solomon Islands , discovered by Alvaro de Mendana in 1568 and thought to house King Solomon 's Mines . |
| 14 | In recognition of his work on thin films and terrestrial magnetism he was awarded the Royal medal of the Royal Society in 1891 and became president of the permanent committee on terrestrial magnetism and atmospheric electricity of the International Meteorological Conference in 1896 . |
| 15 | He held various denominational offices , retired in 1891 and died in 1904 . |
| 16 | Quelch resigned from the editorship in 1889 in order to work full-time for the New Unionism , but returned to the editor 's chair in 1891 and remained editor until his death . |
| 17 | Once under the Kelvin and twice under the Clyde , the making of the Glasgow Underground began in 1891 and involved two enormous explosions under the Clyde to open up twin 20-foot holes for the tunnels . |
| 18 | Mr Kendal inspected the cellar in 1891 and found the place exactly as it had been when Durham used it . |
| 19 | She defended successfully in 1888 , did not compete in 1889 and 1890 , but returned to challenge successfully in 1891 and retained the title for the next two years . |
| 20 | The Belfast helped sink the German battleship Scharnhorst off Norway in 1943 and led the naval bombardment in support of the Normandy D Day landing at Juno Beach . |
| 21 | He retired from the pub game in 1943 and died 11 months after his wife on April 3 , 1946 , at his home in Coniscliffe Road . |
| 22 | During World War Two , the fortunes of those two bomber squadrons bore striking similarities , they arrived together in 1943 and left together in 1945 , they flew the same type of aircraft , Halifax and Lancaster , and shared the same operations . |
| 23 | A second , posthumous , collection of Sidney Keyes 's poems , The Cruel Solstice , was published in 1943 and won the Hawthornden prize . |
| 24 | The Greater London Regional Planning Committee was reconstituted in 1932. and survived as an umbilical cord to commission Abercrombie 's work on Greater London 12 years later ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 25 | He was called to the bar in 1948 and became a QC in 1967 . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ I qualified in 1948 and came in with the health service . |
| 27 | Fleischmann graduated in 1948 and began to study for his doctorate in chemistry which he obtained in 1951 . |
| 28 | He retired from the Army in 1948 and returned once more to his estate at Bishopton , where he devoted himself to farm improvements . |
| 29 | He came to Europe in 1948 and returned again the following year when his familiar blue and yellow Maserati was a regular sight at Grand Prix on the continent . |
| 30 | Of those who started on P. P. E. only two sat finals : Elizabeth Adams ( Lady Kennet ) married in 1948 and had a family of six , but combined their upbringing with a considerable amount of research in international affairs , particularly arms control and maritime affairs . |