Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He resumed his studies in 1948 at New College , Oxford , where he took a first class honours degree and was called to the bar a year later .
2 News of the men 's golf included Mr. H. le Fleming Shepherd 's efforts in the Amateur Championship at St Andrew 's where he reached the 3rd round .
3 He was educated at the Perse School , Cambridge , and won a scholarship to Pembroke College , Cambridge , where he received a first class in part i of the English tripos in 1928 and a first class with distinction in part ii in 1929 .
4 In 1901 he won an exhibition to Trinity College , Cambridge , where he received a second class ( division I ) in part i of the moral sciences tripos ( 1904 ) and a first class in part ii ( 1905 ) .
5 He was educated at Merchant Taylors ' School and Caius College , Cambridge , where he received a third class in part i of the natural sciences tripos ( 1921 ) and a second in part ii in 1922 ( chemistry ) .
6 In 1734 he was appointed Bishop of Cloyne , eventually moving to Oxford in 1752 , where he died the next year .
7 But most of the rest of his career was as a travel photographer working for P & O and Union Castle , as well as the tourist boards for the Bahamas , Barbados and Jamaica , where he went every second winter to photograph personalities such as Joan Crawford or Richard Lester , and incidentally took the last photographs of Ian Fleming and Noel Coward .
8 Before the cholera outbreak in Two Years Ago ( 1857 ) , where he makes a second appearance , he alone among the landowners takes the doctor 's advice and sees that the pig keeps its distance from the cottage , and that the cottages themselves are thoroughly scoured .
9 He was educated at Winchester and at University and Exeter Colleges , Oxford , where he obtained a second class in literae humaniores in 1850 .
10 He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College , Oxford , where he obtained a second class in modern history in 1911 .
11 Clough was educated at Rugby School and St John 's College , Cambridge , where he obtained a first class in the natural sciences tripos in 1874 and an MA in 1878 .
12 He was educated at Marlborough College , to which he had a lifelong devotion , and at Balliol College , Oxford , where he captained both the cricket and hockey XIs and where he obtained a first class in classical honour moderations ( 1924 ) and second classes in mathematical moderations ( 1924 ) and literae humaniores ( 1926 ) .
13 He was educated at Eton and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he obtained a third class in the classical tripos in 1869 .
14 He was educated at Rossall School and Magdalene College , Cambridge , where he obtained a third class in English in 1921 , having abandoned law after a short time .
15 ‘ Jock ’ Swire was educated at Eton and University College , Oxford , where he obtained a third class in jurisprudence in 1913 .
16 He was bought up as a Catholic and a socialist and was educated at Harrow County School for Boys and Peterhouse , Cambridge , where he gained a first class degree in history .
17 Winnicott was educated at The Leys School , Cambridge , and then at Jesus College , Cambridge , where he gained a third class in part i of the natural sciences tripos in 1917 , as a preliminary to qualifying in medicine .
18 Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach .
19 However , we know from Yeats 's letters even more than his poems that he thought the last possibility for aristocratic ease in the arts had disappeared when Robert Gregory was shot down over France in 1915 .
20 It was while he was travelling to South Africa in 1899 via India that he became the first man ever to take a cine-film of a total eclipse of the sun .
21 Dworkin makes it clear that he considers the second principle to be the more fundamental one under a liberal conception of equality .
22 They did it , very slowly and tenderly , and then drove on again ; and then Boy made him stop the second time , in a layby with the first lorry headlights going past , and the man took Boy 's cock in his mouth again , and masturbated Boy again so that he came a second time , and then they drove again .
23 Keith Richardson says … that he thinks every first division club needs a pre season tour … it does not have to be italy but that was a good place to go and you have more much more time than any training sessions back home
24 He kept stroking his own hand , then bursting into tears at his inability to communicate ; was it , as Margaret supposed afterwards , that he was trying to say that he had a second bank-book which they needed to find ?
25 ‘ But how does a young American lady — ’ and he stressed the last word slightly ‘ — come to be alone and seeking work in London ? ’
26 Several clubs from the Football League sought to tempt Harry away from the Palace , but without success , and he became the first Palace player to be awarded a Benefit by our club — it was the Southern League encounter with Coventry City at the Palace on 12 October 1912. 9,000 fans turned up and the Palace won 3–0 .
27 In fact he could n't get them all in , and he acquired a second box , a small tea chest he found , with metal corners .
28 His heart was thudding hard against his ribs and he felt the first droplet of perspiration pop onto his forehead .
29 Such a male has a territory so much better than that of neighbours that a ‘ polygyny threshold ’ is surpassed and he gains a second mate .
30 Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours .
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