Example sentences of "he [vb past] serve in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The violent opposition to the king 's friends of Thomas , Earl of Lancaster , forced Audley to leave the court in 1318 , but he returned to serve in the royal army at the siege of Berwick in September 1319 . |
| 2 | Courier 's only glimmer of hope came when he broke serve in the first game of the third set , but it was only a momentary lapse of concentration by the German , who so likes to win in front of his countrymen and women , as he broke back in the next game . |
| 3 | As he waited he realized that he had not felt such keen anticipation and happiness since he had served in the front line at Magdeburg . |
| 4 | Like Major Kirkwood of Woodbrook , he had served in the Indian Army . |
| 5 | A young Englishman , arms covered in tattoos , said that he had served in the Special Air Service , The Duke of Wellington 's Regiment and with the Parachute Regiment in the Falkland Islands . |