Example sentences of "[num] he [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he instituted the National Art Survey to record all pre-eighteenth-century buildings . |
| 2 | It came from many quarters , both domestic and foreign , for his megalomaniac , as it was often characterized , insistence on Iran 's ‘ imperial vocation ’ of which in 1972 he celebrated the 2,500th birthday . |
| 3 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 4 | In 1933 he joined the Old Vic Company for an impressive range of stage work ( Henry VIII again , The Cherry Orchard , Macbeth , Measure for Measure , The Tempest ) and in 1936 he was the first English actor ever to be invited to appear at the Comédie Française in Paris , where he played Molière 's Le Médecin Malgré Lui . |
| 5 | In 1867 he joined the Independent Order of Good Templars , a fraternal society for teetotal men and women which , unlike most fraternal societies , offered no mutual aid financial scheme . |
| 6 | In 1780 he entered the Royal Navy as surgeon 's mate , becoming full surgeon in 1782 . |
| 7 | In 1903 he joined the royal commission on the coal supplies of Great Britain ( 1901–5 ) . |
| 8 | His first patent was taken out in 1875 ; he constructed dynamometers which won a medal at the 1878 Paris exhibition ; and in 1879 he invented the liquid microphone . |
| 9 | On May 26 he won the Darbakalan by-election , easily defeating his Congress ( I ) opponent by 53,000 votes . |
| 10 | In 1711 he became the official printer of the London Gazette and the South Sea Company . |
| 11 | In 77/78 he relinquished the hot seat to former Grundle Ferry Dynamo boss , Roy Alderman , and then the following season to Rabbi Lionel Cohen , who never attended a Saturday match on religious grounds . |
| 12 | In 1898 he presented the fine site overlooking Aberystwyth on which the National Library of Wales was built . |
| 13 | In his Collins lecture of 1984 he described the cultural authoritarianism of Samuel Johnson 's Dictionary of the English Language , whose acuity and precision of definition should not blind us to the fact that ‘ it accomplished the reduction of the language to the written and the written to the literary . ’ |
| 14 | As we have seen , Aung San had a great admiration for Nehru and in 1940 he attended the annual Congress at Ramgarh , regarded by Communists as bourgeois . |
| 15 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 16 | When Richard Baxter returned to Kidderminster in 1647 he found the Civil War had brought about some changes which were helpful to his ministry . |
| 17 | In 1859 he bought the later Ilminster estate , now occupied by much of Swanage north of the Brook and extending to Ulwell . |
| 18 | At sixteen he joined the Gaelic League and took every opportunity to improve his writing and public speaking . |
| 19 | In 1610 he published The Starry Messenger . |
| 20 | In 1952 he won the 350 world title again for Norton , before switching to the four-cylinder Italian Gileras in ‘ 53 . |
| 21 | In October 1913 he won the British Featherweight Championship at the National Sporting Club , and the European title four months later . |
| 22 | In 1899 he wrote The Amateur Cracksman , a book of short stories in which he created A. J. Raffles , the character who was to make Hornung famous . |
| 23 | His career commenced at Jarrow in 1897 before moving to Sunderland and then Sheffield United where in 1902 he became the youngest player ever to win an FA Cup winners ' medal . |
| 24 | In 1902 he founded the Public Schools Alpine Sports Club and although this was snobbishly restricted to those who had been to a British public school , the club was instrumental in establishing winter sports as a popular type of holiday . |
| 25 | In 1922 he became the Labour candidate for the University of London constituency , but he died before the election . |
| 26 | In 1916 he joined the Indian Army Reserve of Officers and was posted to Mesopotamia as meteorological officer ; he was mentioned in dispatches . |
| 27 | Before regaining his seat in 1811 he viewed the Peninsular war theatre . |
| 28 | In November 1958 he told the Western powers that they must leave Berlin within six months and make it a ‘ free city ’ , or he would sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany . |
| 29 | For six years from 1930 he commanded the Canadian Officers Training Corps at UBC . |
| 30 | In his inauguration speech delivered on Sept. 3 he urged the Mongolian people to construct a market-orientated economy . |