Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 2 | When the Cortes returned to liberated Madrid ( 5 January 1814 ) and the Desired One to Spain , the Persians , a group of conservative deputies , petitioned the king to denounce the constitution of 1812 ; this he did in the Manifesto of 4 May 1814 . |
| 3 | In the 1890s he participated in the reorganization of Argentina 's external debt and in the 1900s restored Argentina 's credit in London . |
| 4 | In 1801 he participated in the expedition to Egypt , and served in Hanover in 1805 and at the taking of Copenhagen two years later . |
| 5 | In 1924 he spoke in the House of Commons of the need to reduce exports . |
| 6 | In late 1940 he reported in the War Illustrated his sighting of a ‘ V ’ for victory sign apparently blazed by a Hawker Hurricane in the sky over the village of Firle in Sussex . |
| 7 | In 1932 he appeared in the House of Lords in Donoghue v. Stevenson . |
| 8 | From 1967 to 1975 he worked in the family businesses and then decided to return and finish his PhD . |
| 9 | From 1939 to 1941 he worked in the Ministry of Home Security ; he served in the Rifle Brigade until 1945 , rising to the rank of major . |
| 10 | In the late 1940s he invested in the Kine Engineering Company of Redhill , becoming managing director and 50 per cent shareholder . |
| 11 | He showed her the cases with other small flags on pins : these he used in the autumn to mark the beginning of the vintages , and the card-index where he kept the regional weather reports year before year . |
| 12 | Besides , it makes more sense to me to believe your brother was the victim of one of the many enemies I 'm sure he made in the course of his life . |
| 13 | So at the age of sixteen he enlisted in the Marines . |
| 14 | His health prevented him from active service in World War I but from 1916 he worked in the war trade intelligence department and in Admiralty research . |
| 15 | And in 1977 he competed in the London to Sydney car race . |
| 16 | On his return , he entered the Royal College of Music to study singing , but later turned to art , and in April 1914 he enrolled in the Académie Delacluse in Paris . |
| 17 | In 1914 he enlisted in the Pembroke Yeomanry but two years later was seconded to Signals , then a branch of the Royal Engineers . |
| 18 | At first he lived in the town of Bewdley and then at Wilden , a moderate-sized semi-country house of the 1840s , but within sight and sound of the forge which was the old centre of the family business . |
| 19 | During the late 1620s he lived in the town , acting as legal adviser to the corporation and to local gentry families , such as the Drydens and the Knightleys . |
| 20 | Coleridge was under contract to the Morning Post , and had to spend some time in London ; but in October 1799 he walked in the Lake District with William and John Wordsworth , and after a certain period of indecision arrived at Greta Hall , Keswick , with his wife and family in August 1800 . |
| 21 | From 1899 to 1901 he fought in the Boer war . |
| 22 | In 1938 he enlisted in the RAF Volunteer Reserve . |
| 23 | In 1937 he fought in the Waziristan Campaign with 3 Field Company , and two years later was in charge of building the Wana Garrison in Waziristan with military labour . |
| 24 | With regard to O'Reilly v. Mackman [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 237 he argued in the alternative . |
| 25 | In 1878 he arrived in the United States and studied for the Unitarian ministry at Meadville Theological School in Pennsylvania . |
| 26 | In 1805 he collected in the Faeroes and in the following year he was commissioned by the Danish government to collect in Greenland , where he passed eight summers and seven winters . |
| 27 | In 1669 he participated in the pamphlet war between physicians and apothecaries by publishing A Discourse , wherein The Interest of the Patient in Reference to Physick and Physicians is soberly debated ; this combined an attack on the apothecaries with a vindication of the role of an experimentally active physician which he exemplified . |
| 28 | During the war of 1914–18 he served in the food production department of the Board of Agriculture , where he developed sex-linked plumage variants as a means of sexing chicks ; this led to many of the commercial ‘ self-sexing ’ breeds . |
| 29 | Next he jumped in the air with his feet together and his knees bent , then he knelt on one knee while she leapt into the air . |
| 30 | The wartime years brought the Polish artist , Josef Herman , first to Scotland , then to Wales , where in 1944 he settled in the mining village of Ystradgynlais . |