Example sentences of "[num] he [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His unfortunate appearance , and lack of education , was offset by a compelling personality , and in 1876 he embarked on an affair with a neighbour , the much younger Katherine Dyson . |
| 2 | There was no hope for Nkrumah ; he had contracted cancer and on 27 April 1972 he died in a Bucharest hospital , aged 63 . |
| 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 | Between 1863 and 1872 he worked as a demonstrator at the Pharmaceutical Society under Professor John Attfield ; he also obtained a B.Sc. |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In 1801 he took as a partner Anthony Newman , and was himself replaced by John Darling in 1809 . |
| 7 | In 1801 he participated in the expedition to Egypt , and served in Hanover in 1805 and at the taking of Copenhagen two years later . |
| 8 | In 1808 he moved into the Wordsworths ' new house , Allan Bank , together with his two sons , and after the usual long preliminaries embarked on his new periodical venture , The Friend . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | At the end of 1985 he qualified as a solicitor ( ‘ this was the safety net and I had written my thesis on the copyright laws , which has been very useful to me ’ ) , but he had already decided to take the plunge as a full time professional musician . |
| 11 | ‘ Nikolai Demidenko is recognised as being one of the most immensely gifted pianists of his generation … in 1985 he played with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra to a packed Ulster Hall during the Belfast Festival at Queen 's . |
| 12 | In November 1985 he resigned from the government in protest at the signing that month of the Anglo-Irish Agreement [ see pp. 34070-73 ] , stating that he could not support the government 's change of policy on Northern Ireland , including " the involvement of a foreign power in a consultative role in the administration of the province " , which he claimed would prolong and not diminish " Ulster 's agony " [ see p. 34072 ] . |
| 13 | On Sept. 30 he called on the UN to supervise local elections . |
| 14 | But Mark bounced back and in 1983–4 he went on an expedition in search of the head-hunting tribes of Indonesia , the Orang-hutan . |
| 15 | He was awarded his BA in 1898 , and during the years between that date and 1903 he worked as a schoolmaster and tried a number of other jobs . |
| 16 | In 1678 he applied for a patent for a new way of processing flax , which may have been related to investigations of this topic made under the society 's auspices in the 1660s . |
| 17 | In the 1650s Howard evidently also developed an interest in industrial practices , and on 27 October 1660 he applied for a patent for a new method of tanning , the subject of a printed broadsheet , Brief directions how to Tanne Leather according to a new Invention ( n.d . ) . |
| 18 | In 1874 he went to the Barrow Shipbuilding Co. as manager of the water-tube boiler department , becoming secretary in 1876 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As early as 1826 he served as a university examiner in mathematics , the first of many occasions . |
| 21 | When war broke out between England and France in 1294 he served with a retinue of at least nine knights in John of Brittany 's expedition to Gascony . |
| 22 | In 1924 he spoke in the House of Commons of the need to reduce exports . |
| 23 | In May 1612 he matriculated at the Academy of Geneva and later attended the Calvinist Academy of Saumur . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | On Aug. 7 he called on the militias to swear an oath of allegiance to the Supreme Soviet . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In 1822 he retired from the army as captain on half pay . |
| 30 | 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 . |