Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This he attributed to the solo exercise . |
| 2 | For a brief period after his accession Henry VII allowed the old Exchequer system to revive ; but from about 1493 he reverted to the methods of his immediate predecessors . |
| 3 | In January 1867 he went to the Paris exhibition as horticultural correspondent for that weekly , as well as the Field and The Times , and started to write his first two books , Gleanings from French Gardens ( 1868 ) and The Parks , Promenades and Gardens of Paris ( 1869 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ And when he was recovering from his sickness here in my house , I noticed how similar he looked to the girl 's face in the picture . |
| 5 | In 1874 he went to the Barrow Shipbuilding Co. as manager of the water-tube boiler department , becoming secretary in 1876 . |
| 6 | In deference to the apparent madness of King George III he agreed to the Lord Chamberlain 's proposal , as play censor , to omit Shakespeare 's King Lear from the repertory which told of a monarch similarly afflicted ; but clashed with him over The School for Scandal , the objections to which , however , he managed to resolve , bringing him a period of near prosperity . |
| 7 | His enterprise did not stop here and in 1786 he advertised to the public that he had opened another school for ladies , ‘ at his house at 2 Brazenose Street in drawing , writing and accounts , ladies and gentlemen instructed at home and boarding schools attended as usual . ’ |
| 8 | In 1963 he turned to the theatre , directing Titus Andronicus and other plays at the Birmigham Rep , and showing himself adept at producing the intimate and affable atmosphere of the small screen on stage . |
| 9 | Yes , they realised how much he meant to the fans . |
| 10 | In 1648 he wrote to the Westminster Assembly , criticizing the Presbyterian system it had devised , but the only result was the suspension of his augmentation at Winchester . |
| 11 | Indeed in 1984 he presented to the president a pipe-march he had composed with the ringing title of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland . |
| 12 | After the Nazi occupation of France in 1940 he escaped to the United States where Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard tried to recruit him to their team at Columbia but were prevented because Washington at that time did not recognise the Free French forces . |
| 13 | On 22 January 1946 he agreed to the formation of the Central Intelligence Group ( CIG ) , which was to be a small organisation simply collating all forms of foreign intelligence and reporting back to the president through the National Intelligence Authority ( NIA ) . |
| 14 | In 1969 he moved to the Carr Lane site where he joined the engineering fraternity . |
| 15 | In 1626 he reported to the Commons on the outcome of the York House conference , at which George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , had declared his support for Arminianism ; and when he delivered one of the Commons charges against Buckingham in the Lords he added his own gloss that he was ‘ the principal patron of a semi-pelagian , semi-popish faction , dangerous to church and state , lately set on foot among us . ’ |
| 16 | In 1147 he succeeded to the dukedom of Swabia , and within a year he set out to take part in the Second Crusade , under the command of his uncle Conrad III and Louis VII of France . |
| 17 | In 1904 he wrote to the poet and critic Arthur Symons : ‘ I have , however , of late years , lapsed so deeply into my early weakness for verse , & have found the condensed expression that it affords so much more consonant to my natural way of thinking & feeling that I have almost forgotten the prose effusions for the time . ’ |
| 18 | In 1859 he went to the brink of war with American troops over San Juan Island , despite his council 's urging restraint . |
| 19 | In 1862 he travelled to the island of Sardinia to advise on the developing railway system there . |
| 20 | He played a song at the end of the interview , and all he said to the band was : ‘ When I kick , that means I 'm going to start , and when I kick my leg again , that means I 'm going to stop . ’ |
| 21 | This was speedily agreed , but the Headmaster was not able to see it in use himself , for in July 1902 he announced to the Governors that he had been offered — and intended to accept — a small country living , a " less onerous position " . |
| 22 | He was commissioned almost at once , and early in 1792 he returned to the Foudroyant as first lieutenant ; in April of the same year he was promoted master and commander , being given the Pigmy of 14 guns ; and in 1790 he was made post . |
| 23 | In 1911 he returned to the Arboretum , helping in the preparation of Plantae Wilsonianae , which was edited in three volumes by Sargent ( 1911–17 ) but partly written by A. Rehder and other specialists . |
| 24 | In 1930 he succeeded to the earldom and to an alarming load of debt . |
| 25 | Pygmalion-like he turned to the penetration of stone with hammer and chisel … |
| 26 | When Mr Deane eventually left Ireland later in 1978 he confided to the Cork Examiner that the decision to have violent confrontation at Barnahely was not made by him : ‘ That morning was handled on the advice of other people . |
| 27 | In 1324 he wrote to the Pope complaining that he was in danger from magic and occult practices , and the Pope replied by advising him to turn to God with a whole and contrite heart . |
| 28 | On June 6 he wrote to the Speakers of the Sejm and of the Senate , the upper house , citing his constitutional right to reject legislation , and seeking the reworking of an electoral law in time for October elections . |
| 29 | But in 1766 he came to the notice of Peter Beckford [ q.v. ] , then travelling in Italy , who , in return for payments to the father , brought the boy to live at his home in Stapleton Iwerne , Dorset , for seven years . |
| 30 | After breaking a thigh in 1973 he moved to the Evelyn Nursing Home , where he died 2 February 1978 . |