Example sentences of "[num] he [vb past] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Following their divorce in 1951 he married in the same year Margaret , daughter of Dr Michael John O'Kane , general practitioner , of Cushendall . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ] . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Thus in April 1988 he wrote in the New Statesman , ‘ Underpinning our social policy are those traditions — the diffusion of power , civil obligation , and voluntary service — which are central to Conservative philosophy … |
| 13 | Between 1643 and 1645 he served in the parliamentary army as chaplain to Colonel Valentine Walton [ q.v. ] , governor of King 's Lynn . |