Example sentences of "[num] he [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his father 's death in 1867 he took over the business , and in the 1871 census he was described as ‘ chemist and dealer in foreign stamps ’ . |
| 2 | In 1236 he had both the honour of carrying the sceptre at the queen 's coronation , and the disgrace of imprisonment through a court cabal . |
| 3 | In 1984 he took over the occupancy of 84 acres of land near Gosforth in Tyne and Wear which was owned by the Ashdale Land and Property Company . |
| 4 | By 1984 he plucked up the courage ( or obtained the permission ) to do the two things he really wanted : make wine from Pinot Gris ( originally a Burgundian grape ) as a Burgundian would , fermenting and maturing it in ( partly new ) French oak barriques ; and stop filtering his dry white wines . |
| 5 | He built his first car by the time he was 18. in 1909 he took over the Molsheim factory near Strasbourg and set about developing the greatest racing car in the world . |
| 6 | In 1952 he took over the captaincy from Michael Barton . |
| 7 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |
| 8 | In 1958 he took over the running of the Horncastle Maltings , which , after a series of ownerships was acquired by . |
| 9 | Yet he was not at this stage prepared to risk open war on their behalf ; although he disliked the peace of 1328 he had neither the resources nor the general political support for a renewal of the Scottish war . |
| 10 | In 1441 he took over the work from two Venetian architects and supervised the work for the next three decades . |
| 11 | On 2 April 1746 he gave up the attempt and headed hastily north ‘ in a great hurry and confusion ’ . |
| 12 | At p. 254 he explained how the judges were using a power derived from the Crown as the fountain of justice when they conferred authority on the benchers of the Inns of Court to act as their delegates in maintaining the discipline of the Bar . |
| 13 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 14 | In 1951 he took on the vice-presidency of the newly formed Musician 's Organization for Peace . |
| 15 | However , in 1855 he took up the post of professor of drawing at King 's College , London , which he combined with book illustration . |
| 16 | He could see that refrigeration would bring about a complete change in people 's lifestyles and in 1880 he took over the patents of the Bell–Coleman cold-air machine and developed what was known as the dry air refrigerator . |
| 17 | In 1880 he set up the Art Furnishers ' Alliance at Bond Street to sell ‘ artistic house furnishing material ’ . |
| 18 | In 1983 he took over the captaincy of Jamaica when Rowe went to South Africa but found it a difficult business , perhaps because he is too quiet and introspective for cricket leadership . |
| 19 | At about four he rang up the number given him for Gerald Seymour-Strachey , but he was answered by a not too refined woman 's voice — a voice with a touch of the treacle tart in it , and a touch of the plain tart as well . |