Example sentences of "summer of [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the summer of 1981 I investigated this pattern of variation by surveying seven towns scattered throughout Britain : Bristol , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Manchester , Newcastle upon Tyne and Sheffield . |
| 2 | In the summer of 1918 he began to devote more time to the club in between duties at the arms factory in Barnbow , but , perhaps sensing that trouble was brewing , he suddenly resigned as secretary-manager on 16 December to go into full-time industrial management with Joseph Watson & Sons at the Olympia oil and cake works in Selby . |
| 3 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 4 | In the summer of 1954 he drove Minton around northern Italy , stopping at Toulon on their return where the Moynihans were staying in a house that belonged to Pissarro 's granddaughter . |
| 5 | Browne had tentatively suggested the summer of that year as the " deadline " for it , but Eliot was uncertain how quickly he could recover his dramatic skills and , since he often needed to work slowly , he believed the spring of 1949 to be a more appropriate date.Throughout the spring and summer of 1948 he worked on it as consistently as he could , although there were egregious interruptions : in April , for example , he had to make the British Council trip to Aix-en-Provence which had been postponed the previous winter . |
| 6 | Even before Vivien 's committal , Eliot had been much more free than in the days of his marriage ; in the summer of 1935 he was with Emily Hale in Gloucestershire , and also visited the Fabers in Wales . |
| 7 | Through the summer of 1929 he complained to Dobrée of roasting in the modern city 's horrors ( yet wondered if he would find the country any more bearable ) . |
| 8 | In the summer of 1888 he took his family on holiday to Bournemouth and there died of a heart attack , 30 August 1888 , frustrating his desire to retire to Kirchhosbach when his children 's education was complete . |
| 9 | Unfortunately for Napoleon 's schemes , Fernando proved reluctant and when in the summer of 1869 he contracted a morganatic marriage with a German-born actress , Elisa Hensler , he virtually put himself out of court . |
| 10 | When the pope nevertheless steadfastly refused to give way , Henry intensified his attack on the church ; in the summer of 1530 he issued a charge of praemunire against fifteen clerics , including the four bishops who had supported Catherine , on the grounds that they had aided Wolsey in the exercise of his legatine authority and thereby given support to papal jurisdiction within his realm . |
| 11 | In the summer of 1991 he proposed a new party programme which , in effect , would have brought it much closer into line with a social democratic party , competing with others on Western lines . |
| 12 | To augment this kind of study , in the summer of 1989 we asked all Leeds primary heads to rate the overall effectiveness of the PNP INSET provision in relation to each of the four PNP aims . |
| 13 | By Warne 's own admission , the summer of 1989 he spent playing club cricket in Bristol was memorable because ‘ we used to drink , drink and drink and do what boys would do . ’ |
| 14 | Wade 's plan was immediately accepted and by the summer of 1725 he was back in Scotland with a new appointment , that of Commander of the Forces in North Britain . |
| 15 | For a period of two years from the summer of 1179 to the summer of 1181 we know nothing of Richard 's movements . |
| 16 | By the summer of 1937 I had busied myself with journalism and with radio programme production for eight years , and I was becoming restless . |
| 17 | James Welsh and his wife are recorded as decorating porcelain at Chelsea in 1750 ; by the summer of 1754 they had moved to Bow . |
| 18 | It was to be the last triumph Chapman was to see at Elland Road , for in the summer of 1916 he took a managerial job at a munitions factory at Barnbow , near Leeds . |
| 19 | During the summer of 1979 I had moved into a collective house whose occupants were libertarian hippies , socialists , Christians and noisy heterosexual feminists . |
| 20 | Bob Champion was thirty-one when in the summer of 1979 he was told he had cancer . |
| 21 | In the late summer of 1986 I was told the answer was a transplant . |
| 22 | In the summer of 1925 he took part in his last athletics meeting in Scotland , winning the Scottish Amateur Athletics Association titles in the 100 , 220 , and 440 yards , before leaving to take up an appointment as a missionary teacher at the Anglo-Chinese College in Tientsin . |
| 23 | After the Italian surrender in the summer of 1943 he privately reckoned the chances of a similar German collapse at six to four against ; and he recognised , partly under pressure from Attlee and others on the Labour side , that he ought to appoint a senior Minister to co-ordinate the planning of reconstruction . |
| 24 | Then , in the summer of 1923 I went to stay with an old schoolfriend in Grasmere , whose brother , Micky , was a Scholar at Brasenose . |
| 25 | In the summer of 1923 he turned out at inside-right for the local police in their fixture against the lawyers . |
| 26 | He still longed to be a painter though , and in the summer of 1939 he moved to Paris , where he intended to settle and paint . |
| 27 | For a few months in the summer of 1939 he worked at 2 Caxton Street , Westminster , alongside L. D. Grand , a Woolwich contemporary who ran the then inadmissible section D of the secret service . |
| 28 | In the summer of 1939 he consolidated the edifice further . |
| 29 | In the summer of 1945 he began to make more use of the enormous scope that the interim regime gave him to shape the future of the country . |
| 30 | During the summer of 1521 he produced one of his writings entitled ‘ In Defence of the Seven Sacraments , ’ exposing the heresies of the German Protestant , Martin Luther , and he dedicated the writing to Pope Leo X , from whence the King was known as ‘ The Defender of the Faith ’ . |