Example sentences of "[num] he [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | On Sept. 30 he called on the UN to supervise local elections . |
| 5 | In 1874 he went to the Barrow Shipbuilding Co. as manager of the water-tube boiler department , becoming secretary in 1876 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On 11 March 1812 he volunteered for the San Domingo ( 74 guns ) , probably to avoid being pressed into the navy . |
| 10 | In 1969 he moved to the Carr Lane site where he joined the engineering fraternity . |
| 11 | In 1941 he enrolled at the Slade , which had been evacuated to Oxford . |
| 12 | In 1626 he reported to the Commons on the outcome of the York House conference , at which George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , had declared his support for Arminianism ; and when he delivered one of the Commons charges against Buckingham in the Lords he added his own gloss that he was ‘ the principal patron of a semi-pelagian , semi-popish faction , dangerous to church and state , lately set on foot among us . ’ |
| 13 | After further sick leave for nine months during 1917 he retired from the IES in November of that year . |
| 14 | In the late 1940s he invested in the Kine Engineering Company of Redhill , becoming managing director and 50 per cent shareholder . |
| 15 | From 1651 he worked from the Bell in St Paul 's Churchyard , developing a prosperous partnership with James Allestry , and becoming one of the most prominent booksellers of Restoration London . |
| 16 | But for once he had planned to escape the worst excesses of the English winter , and at the beginning of 1950 he embarked with the Fabers on a six-week cruise to South Africa : two weeks getting there , two weeks on the beach at St James near Cape Town , and two weeks back . |
| 17 | When Mr Deane eventually left Ireland later in 1978 he confided to the Cork Examiner that the decision to have violent confrontation at Barnahely was not made by him : ‘ That morning was handled on the advice of other people . |
| 18 | And in 1977 he competed in the London to Sydney car race . |
| 19 | On his return , he entered the Royal College of Music to study singing , but later turned to art , and in April 1914 he enrolled in the Académie Delacluse in Paris . |
| 20 | In 1914 he enlisted in the Pembroke Yeomanry but two years later was seconded to Signals , then a branch of the Royal Engineers . |
| 21 | After breaking a thigh in 1973 he moved to the Evelyn Nursing Home , where he died 2 February 1978 . |
| 22 | At half past five he returned to the Disraeli Lounge and at ten to eight , his spirits further lightened by his intake of whisky , he entered the bungalow , whistling . |
| 23 | In 1987 he returned to the UK not only with fluency in Japanese but also with a Japanese wife , Nako . |
| 24 | In 1871 he retired from the LNWR . |
| 25 | Coleridge was under contract to the Morning Post , and had to spend some time in London ; but in October 1799 he walked in the Lake District with William and John Wordsworth , and after a certain period of indecision arrived at Greta Hall , Keswick , with his wife and family in August 1800 . |
| 26 | Although Olszewski had originally ( as announced in his economic programme in February ) favoured a relaxation of the previous government 's stringent policies , on March 23 he called on the Sejm to recognise the importance of retaining the confidence of the IMF . |
| 27 | He had also shown a gift for learning languages , first in India , and when in August 1951 he returned to the BBC , it was to join its monitoring service at Caversham as a report writer . |
| 28 | In 1846 he went to the USA to study and lecture , and in the following year was appointed to a chair at Harvard . |
| 29 | In 1938 he enlisted in the RAF Volunteer Reserve . |
| 30 | In 1965 he moved to the Shia shrine in Najaf , in Iran where he stayed until 1978 . |