Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] king [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In England the rapid increase in the amount of diplomatic correspondence from the beginning of the sixteenth century accelerated the development of the secretary of state , originally an officer of the royal household who drafted the king 's letters and kept his private seal . |
| 2 | It was the lesser clergy who frustrated the king 's attempt to smudge the distinctions to his own advantage , so that by 1322 parliament was virtually eliminated as the place to raise clerical subsidies , and convocation was no longer summoned by the offending writ . |
| 3 | To a king about to embark on war , the support of wise counsels and mighty powers was indeed essential , and the men honoured in 1337 repaid the king 's generosity by loyal support for him in the forthcoming campaigns . |
| 4 | More recent research , however , has revealed that the radical theories justifying the supremacy were being promoted at court by members of the Boleyn faction as early as the summer of 1531 , well before Cromwell became the king 's chief minister ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 5 | He was also a sun god as Harakhty , Horus of the Horizon , and as Horus of Behdet , and was the son of Osiris and Isis as Horus , as Monthu was local to Thebes and became the king 's god of warfare in the New Kingdom , when Thebes was the capital . |
| 6 | The property had been part of the countess ' lands , and when Risley asked the king 's advice on the matter Edward warned him off : ‘ Risley , meddle not ye with the buying of the said place , for though the title of [ it ] be good in my brother of Gloucester 's hands or in another man 's hands of like might , it will be dangerous to thee to buy it and also to keep it and defend it . ’ |
| 7 | The property had been part of the countess ' lands , and when Risley asked the king 's advice on the matter Edward warned him off : ‘ Risley , meddle not ye with the buying of the said place , for though the title of [ it ] be good in my brother of Gloucester 's hands or in another man 's hands of like might , it will be dangerous to thee to buy it and also to keep it and defend it . ’ |
| 8 | Admitted the King 's enemies should be hanged . |
| 9 | AI drew the King 's attention to the prolonged detention without charge or trial of suspected government opponents , reports of torture , deaths in custody , and the practice of keeping prisoners in manacles . |
| 10 | They described the King 's surprise and frustration , for usually the Pope made little difficulty over the annulment of royal marriages . |
| 11 | Benstede , impassive , had left early , while Bruce scarcely bothered to disguise the murder in his eyes whenever he caught the King 's glance . |
| 12 | Joinville reported the king 's reply to his counsellors who opposed the treaty with England of 1259 : ‘ it seems to me that what I give him [ Henry III ] I am employing well , because he was not my man , and now he enters into my homage ’ . |
| 13 | His busyness in seeking profitable office suggests little sympathy for the austere ideals of ‘ Thorough ’ : a privy councillor throughout the decade , he had no scruples in gathering a clutch of reversions for his young sons Thomas and Henry ( later first Earl of St Albans , q.v. ) , which inhibited the king 's freedom of appointment in legal , financial , and administrative offices . |
| 14 | He also had difficulties with Bishop Ælfstan of Rochester , whose diocese he ravaged in 986 , and Bishop Æthelsige of Sherborne , who incurred the king 's anger , was expelled from his see , and went abroad never to return . |
| 15 | After c.973 all the pennies struck at numerous mints throughout the country ( including York ) bore the king 's name and portrait , and were produced from iron dies distributed by the government , so that all looked alike . |
| 16 | His journal of the time notes that he found the King 's many wives very charming to look at . |
| 17 | ‘ So , who found the King 's body ? ’ |
| 18 | You took the ferry at Dalmeny and then used the horses from the royal stables at Aberdour to journey to Kinghorn , and it was then you found the King 's body lying on the beach ? ’ |
| 19 | He found the King 's strength and confidence increasing and he had no doubts about his fitness to rule ; but the King was still anxious for time in which to adjust himself to his new station and duties . |
| 20 | Fingers across the map to retrace their journey — from the New Inn they went to the English chapel , walked to the shore , saw the Marischal College , were welcomed at the Town House , viewed Old Aberdeen , looked at the Old College , visited the King 's College where Sir Alexander Gordon was professor of Medicine , and visited two bookshops . |
| 21 | The jurors , having appeared before the king , were induced , probably by threats of amercement and imprisonment , to acknowledge their error and to modify their perambulations ; they then received the king 's pardon . |
| 22 | In Alcuin 's opinion , part of Eanbald 's trouble arose because he received the king 's enemies and protected their possessions and because he was involved in seizing the lands of others . |
| 23 | This was the context in which John XXII told the king c.1318 that ‘ the state of ecclesiastical dignity is in the realm of England more notably depressed , or rather its liberty crushed , than in all other parts of the world ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I have already heard , ’ said Julian , ‘ how in the council of last November you spoke for a parley with the Lord Owen , and told the king 's ministers that he would be willing to talk peace . |
| 25 | But already on the Sunday Baldwin had seen Stamfordham : ‘ He had appealed , ’ he told the King 's Private Secretary , ‘ to the people to trust him , as in 1924 , and they had refused . |
| 26 | Coventry 's accumulated wealth attracted the King 's interest in mid August , 1642 . |
| 27 | I do wonder if the King 's mad gallop through a storm-blown night finally unhinged his mind and so he caused the King 's death and later died of a broken heart ? |
| 28 | ‘ No , I too noted the King 's change in mood but dismissed it for King Alexander was an excitable , changeable man . |
| 29 | prevented the King 's officers from levying his rents and the amercements incurred by the King 's tenants in the Forest courts , or executing the orders of the King and of the King 's justices and other ministers . |
| 30 | On January 15th came the King 's speech , announcing a full legislative programme . |