Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest medical theories suggest that Mozart 's last illness had its roots in the various serious infections he had suffered as a child : on the early trip to Paris and London he had contracted rheumatic fever , tonsillitis. and typhoid fever ; in 1167 he had caught smallpox ; and in Italy he seems to have had bronchitis and yellow jaundice . |
| 2 | In the spring of 1167 he led an army into the Auvergne , right on the eastern border of Aquitaine , in order to lay waste the land of Count William of Auvergne , who seems to have dispossessed his nephew the young Count . |
| 3 | In 1895 he became gas engineer and in 1900 transferred to a similar post on the Midland Railway at Derby , where he became assistant works manager in 1905 , works manager in 1907 , and chief mechanical engineer in 1909 . |
| 4 | In 1895 he became secretary to the British Association seismological committee for study of earth tremors and the following year he and the seismologist John Milne [ q.v. ] , newly returned from his pioneering work in Japan , became joint secretaries of its newly established subcommittee for seismological investigation , until Davison retired from this position in 1899 . |
| 5 | In 1895 he became examining chaplain to the bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa , Alfred Tucker [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | In 1895 he began to build his first full-size glider , the Bat ; it had pronounced dihedral , and was fitted with a rudder but no tailplane . |
| 7 | In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police . |
| 8 | In 1895 he married Katherine Mary , daughter of Thomas McEwen , dominie of Baldernock School . |
| 9 | In 1895 he married Ethel Louisa , daughter of John Robert Griffith , a solicitor , of Llanrwst , north Wales . |
| 10 | In 1895 he married Emmie Needham ( died 1934 ) , daughter of Philip Smith . |
| 11 | In 1895 he married Rhoda , daughter of Colin Gibb Lawrence , bookkeeper , of Brechin . |
| 12 | In 1895 he married Nellie Dacey , daughter of a Sheffield railway guard . |
| 13 | Promoted to Field Marshall in 1895 he died in 1914 of pneumonia at the Front in France where he was visiting Indian divisions . |
| 14 | In 1895 he instituted the National Art Survey to record all pre-eighteenth-century buildings . |
| 15 | In 1895 he contested West Leeds as a Conservative against Herbert ( later Viscount ) Gladstone [ q.v. ] and was defeated by only ninety-six votes . |
| 16 | In 1895 he entered the alkali business . |
| 17 | In April 1895 he discussed the construction of the Bat with Otto Lilienthal , the German hang-gliding pioneer , and learned a great deal about the practical problems of controlling hang-gliders in the air . |
| 18 | In 1465 he received the most valuable component of his early endowment , the duchy lordships of Bolingbroke ( Lincs . ) , |
| 19 | In 1465 he received the most valuable component of his early endowment , the duchy lordships of Bolingbroke ( Lincs . ) , |
| 20 | In 1465 he wrote that he wished to have his doublet made of worsted ‘ for the worship of Norfolk ’ ( 17 , iv , 188 ) . |
| 21 | This he continued to do until his illness confined him first to his room and finally to his bed . |
| 22 | This he continued to do — between jaw-jutting in that peculiar Mussolini-meets-Foghorn Leghorn manner of his — until the brass-necked wonder that is still ‘ It 's On ’ . |
| 23 | To achieve this he takes in atmospheric air at the water surface and blows out mucus coated bubbles which adhere to each other and also to plant matter . |
| 24 | This he achieved by using his knowledge of Zen , an ancient philosophy that he has studied ‘ on and off ’ for many years . |
| 25 | In this he achieved a remarkable fluency without the benefit of grammar or vocabulary . |
| 26 | This he achieved , securing the right for the curia to receive appeals , summon synods and approve bishops . |
| 27 | This he achieved by getting along to the Frog and Ferret at about eleven each morning , where he spent hours in conversation with George ‘ This is My Coronary ’ Parker . |
| 28 | To do this he sent me to another sort of specialist who inserted through my neck a needle containing blue dye , guided it with the help of a television screen into the top of my spinal cord and then watched its progress as it trickled down . |
| 29 | This he hoped would enforce freedom of the seas and promote freedom of international trade . |
| 30 | This he tested on a single patient in 1755 . |