Example sentences of "[num] he [vb past] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On Aug. 7 he called on the militias to swear an oath of allegiance to the Supreme Soviet . |
| 3 | So at the age of sixteen he enlisted in the Marines . |
| 4 | This was speedily agreed , but the Headmaster was not able to see it in use himself , for in July 1902 he announced to the Governors that he had been offered — and intended to accept — a small country living , a " less onerous position " . |
| 5 | On June 6 he wrote to the Speakers of the Sejm and of the Senate , the upper house , citing his constitutional right to reject legislation , and seeking the reworking of an electoral law in time for October elections . |
| 6 | From 1865 to 1871 he lived on the estates he had inherited in Scotland , and then spent his last years at Cambridge . |
| 7 | In 1778 he wrote about the buildings in Ambleside ‘ … with their projecting porch 's connecting galleries , beautifully formed chimneys and bold irregularities . ’ |
| 8 | Lapworth 's academic career began as lecturer in chemistry at the School of Pharmacy in Bloomsbury ; in 1900 he moved to the Goldsmiths ' Company 's Institute at New Cross as head of the chemistry department . |
| 9 | In 1805 he collected in the Faeroes and in the following year he was commissioned by the Danish government to collect in Greenland , where he passed eight summers and seven winters . |