Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In 1895 he instituted the National Art Survey to record all pre-eighteenth-century buildings .
2 In this he achieved a remarkable fluency without the benefit of grammar or vocabulary .
3 In this he recognizes the same problem which faces the insider/ethnographer , for he clearly understands that pretence , deception , and bizarre social drama play a large part in police culture and accepts this will be difficult to research .
4 Within this he pinned the official announcement that sentence of death had been carried out .
5 Over this he had a black mackintosh ; there were five belts strapped around his waist and a sort of grey linen nappy attached to the back of his trousers .
6 When he wondered this he felt a deep sadness .
7 With this he struck the first blow , and broke it in striking . ’
8 For this he received a two-match ban .
9 In this he initiated the Great Debate by exhorting teachers to ‘ satisfy parents and industry that what you are doing meets their requirements and the needs of their children ’ .
10 Bartlett suggests that the individual has ‘ an overmastering tendency simply to get a general impression of the whole ; and on the basis of this he constructs the probable detail ’ ( 1932 : 206 ) .
11 Yet in spite of this he remained a convinced Catholic , regarding Voltaire and the Encyclopédie as profoundly dangerous .
12 After this he ranked the great road north to Barnet , then that to Kent and those to Chelmsford and Uxbridge .
13 From this he reckoned the underground passage was now clear of the house foundations and heading out towards the outer fence .
14 While doing this he gave a wonderful imitation of his coal merchant and his wife .
15 In 1876 he took a similar position at the Blaenavon ironworks in Monmouthshire under the management of Edward Martin .
16 In 1876 he built a high water tower , topped for a time with a telescope .
17 It came from many quarters , both domestic and foreign , for his megalomaniac , as it was often characterized , insistence on Iran 's ‘ imperial vocation ’ of which in 1972 he celebrated the 2,500th birthday .
18 He was also a self-educated man , with a particular interest in astronomy , and in 1933 he discovered a white spot on the surface of Saturn .
19 In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle .
20 Now it was clear he had no real need of her assistance despite his claim to the opposite .
21 Mr Moore had made it clear he wanted a sterner system .
22 But Mr Delors had made it clear he wants the annual budget to rise to £73 billion over the next seven years .
23 with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff .
24 In 1776 he became an active member of the ( Smeatonian ) Society of Civil Engineers , the influential dining club of John Smeaton [ q.v. ] and other leading practical men of the day .
25 In 1776 he became an active partner in this firm , now styled Barclay , Bevan & Bening .
26 By the age of twenty-one he had a managerial post in charge of fifteen people .
27 In 1867 he accepted a timely invitation to return to his former employer , and in the reassuring familiarity of his parents ' home in Bockhampton he was able to assess his career , temporarily rededicating himself to architecture while continuing to hope for success as a writer , if not of poetry , of popular novels .
28 In 1867 he joined the Independent Order of Good Templars , a fraternal society for teetotal men and women which , unlike most fraternal societies , offered no mutual aid financial scheme .
29 In 1780 he entered the Royal Navy as surgeon 's mate , becoming full surgeon in 1782 .
30 In 1609 he completed an English translation of a treatise De Potestate Papae , but the Jesuit general refused to allow its publication .
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