Example sentences of "[num] he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police . |
| 2 | On Sept. 30 he called for the first time for dialogue to reach an equitable global settlement , addressing himself particularly to France which he had identified as more flexible [ see below for Mitterrand 's UN speech ] , although once again stressing that there would be no compromise over Kuwait belonging to Iraq . |
| 3 | On Sept. 22 he resurfaced in the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este , declaring that he would not be returning to France to face charges because he had reason to fear an assassination attempt . |
| 4 | From 1888 he served on the new Cumberland county council , opposing the construction of roads over Lakeland passes , reducing mining pollution , and organizing the proper signposting of footpaths . |
| 5 | Then at the age of 35 he moved to the ruined fortress of Pispir on the east bank of the Nile . |
| 6 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 7 | From the 1920s to the 1940s he acted as the principal representative of the provisional administration in Washington , having given up the presidency . |
| 8 | In 1964 he stood for the pretty safe ( at the time ) Conservative seat of Glasgow Pollok . |
| 9 | During World War II he served in the Royal Artillery and the Army Bureau of Current Affairs , the latter foreshadowing his immediately postwar position as head of the department for the exchange of information in Unesco , where he worked towards universal bibliographical control . |
| 10 | Between September 1915 and November 1918 he served in the 21st , 39th , and 47th divisions of the Royal Engineers in France and Belgium , and fought in the battle of Pilckem ridge in 1917 . |
| 11 | In 1913 he tied for the Open , losing a celebrated play-off to the young local amateur Francis Ouimet . |
| 12 | From 1661 he sat in the Cavalier Parliament for Dorset , and was in opposition under both the administration of Edward Hyde , Earl of Clarendon [ q.v. ] and , after 1667 , the Cabal , in which his local rival , Anthony Ashley Cooper ( later first Earl of Shaftesbury , q.v. ) , held high office ; but his stalwart churchmanship brought him an honorary DCL from his old university in 1665 . |
| 13 | David Lodge was one ; in his inaugural lecture as Professor of Modern English Literature at Birmingham in 1976 he slid from the supposed arbitrariness of language as defined by Saussure to the way in which the masterpieces of modernist literature emphasized form rather than content . |
| 14 | In 1930 he presided at the eleventh International Veterinary Congress in London . |
| 15 | In World War I he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as temporary captain in charge of the base laboratory at Salonika ( 1916 ) , and later in Northern Ireland as bacteriologist ( 1918 ) . |
| 16 | During World War I he worked on the western front in a field survey company and in interpretation of aerial photographs . |
| 17 | In April 1282 he fought in the Welsh war with one knight and one serjeant and in the following year made over his English and Welsh lands to his son , Pierre de Joinville . |
| 18 | At the age of 16 he travelled through the Far East and went to Australia to work on a sheep station . |
| 19 | Outside , the world was waiting for Mr Major 's victory oration and shortly after 1.00 he made for the front door . |
| 20 | Collinson 's first garden at Peckham was a modest one , but from there he took nosegays and potted flowers to grace his City window , and when Kalm visited him in 1748 he remarked on the many rare American plants already established there . |
| 21 | In 1948 he moved to the ancient house of Daneway , near Sapperton , where he ground his own flour , baked his own bread and made his own paper on which to print his poems on his own press . |
| 22 | In 1875 he moved to the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland as the works manager and assistant locomotive superintendent at Inchicore near Dublin , where he was responsible for making improvements to the automatic vacuum brake . |
| 23 | In 1166 he marched on the Breton capital , Rennes , deposed Duke Conan and took over the duchy in the name of Conan 's infant daughter and heiress Constance . |
| 24 | Irony was to the fore when in 1925 he wrote of the Russian Revolution , but behind it was a more important urge leading him to the poem ‘ Le Voyage ’ of his favourite Baudelaire . |
| 25 | On 11 December 1272 he transferred to the new archbishop of Canterbury , Robert Kilwardby [ q.v. ] , the spiritualities of the see and on the following day was the only bishop recorded as present in London at an important declaration concerning royal rights in respect of this papal provision of Kilwardby . |
| 26 | From then until 1980 he commuted between the two , never disappointing his admirers , from Cardinal Bellarmin in Galileo ( 1980 ) to Perchikhin in The Philistines ( 1986 ) . |
| 27 | Following their divorce in 1951 he married in the same year Margaret , daughter of Dr Michael John O'Kane , general practitioner , of Cushendall . |
| 28 | But the two he remembered in the clearest detail , well into adulthood , were a crazy , terrifying patchwork of the history he learned at school , or at his grandad 's knee , who was a great , if not unbiased , teacher , and of his own personal history . |
| 29 | From 1942 to 1945 he served in the Royal Air Force , first as a general-duties medical officer in Bomber Command , then as a neuropsychiatry specialist , when he was much influenced by ( Sir ) Charles Symonds [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | From 1920 to 1945 he showed in the Royal Academy summer exhibition in all but four years , being elected ARA in 1934 and RA in 1942 . |