Example sentences of "[coord] he [vb past] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without the help of the Pope , his royal father had made Zacco Archbishop of Nicosia when he was thirteen , and he had lived in the Archbishop 's Palace with Cropnose for years . |
| 2 | His logical mind lent itself superbly to maths and he began to excel in the subject . |
| 3 | The start of the last play was delayed as ‘ Jesus ’ had elected to travel in his own car rather than on the lorry , and he became entangled in the mysteries of the town 's traffic system . |
| 4 | Cathy was in the little office and he came to stand in the doorway . |
| 5 | Schmidt , however , like Giscard in France , showed his independence of America by talking to Soviet leaders in Moscow in July 1980 and he returned to triumph in the general election . |
| 6 | The following year Calero looked like getting in the Ryder Cup side , but he had to finish in the first two at York ( Benson and Hedges International ) . |
| 7 | By far the most famous of these clerical judges is Henry Bracton : he died in 1268 as chancellor of Exeter cathedral , but he had served in the meanwhile as a justice in eyre , a judge on assize , and from 1248 to 1257 on the King 's Bench and on the king 's council ; his fame rests on the fact that not only was he the foremost jurist of his age and possessed of an extensive and precise knowledge of Roman law but he was also credited with the authorship of The Laws and Customs of England which became — in the words of Dorothy Stenton — ‘ the Bible of the coming legal generation ’ . |
| 8 | The violent opposition to the king 's friends of Thomas , Earl of Lancaster , forced Audley to leave the court in 1318 , but he returned to serve in the royal army at the siege of Berwick in September 1319 . |
| 9 | Wilkinson conceded that odds against the title going to Elland Road for the first time in 18 years have ‘ lengthened considerably ’ but he refused to throw in the towel . |