Example sentences of "he [vb past] to paris " in BNC.

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1 Most of the criticism has been pretty tame , though one dissident , Colonel Bui Tinh , a revolutionary hero , waited until he got to Paris to say he believed the draft documents were ‘ totally out of contact with reality ’ .
2 After studying in Vienna with Hummel and with Simon Sechter ( whose other pupils included Schubert , in the last days of his life , and Bruckner , half-way through his ) , Thalberg 's career as one of the leading virtuosi of his days was already well established by the time he moved to Paris .
3 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 .
4 In late 1853 he moved to Paris , where he was engaged on bridges and embankments of the Seine , and on railways in and around the city .
5 It has even been mistakenly argued that at some point during the 1320s he fled to Paris and studied for a while at the Sorbonne .
6 Modigliani was blamed later for encouraging Soutine to drink , but Soutine already had a taste for drink when he came to Paris .
7 ‘ Diego Rivera , who became a world-famous fresco painter when he went back to his native Mexico , was 25 when he came to Paris in 1914 , a political as well as an artistic rebel and just the sort of companion Modi enjoyed .
8 Ever since he was a student in Florence and Venice , Modigliani had studied the female form repeatedly and passionately and when he came to Paris he continued to go to life classes .
9 In 1946 he came to Paris to discuss independence , but he found the French government was determined to restore its authority in all Indochina .
10 When in May , six months later , he came to Paris and took me to the Tour d'Argent for lunch , he passed me an envelope .
11 When he came to Paris , I came after him — I wanted to watch him .
12 He had a miserable life , he came to Paris and led a further miserable life .
13 In I771 he returned to Paris , a broken man .
14 He returned to Paris and edited Le Paria ( The Untouchable ) .
15 Dissatisfied even after weeks of painful struggle , he returned to Paris in the fall with his unfinished works .
16 He returned to Paris three years later .
17 Mortimer was a Marcher lord and a Contrariant who had been imprisoned in the Tower and threatened with death ; he escaped to Paris in 1323 where he became the centre of a group of exiles and fugitives .
18 The following day he flew to Paris to begin an official visit to France , seeing President Mitterrand on April 23 .
19 In the late afternoon of 21 August , he crossed to Paris and joined Baldwin at the Ritz shortly before midnight .
20 In 1929 he went to Paris to work at the Pasteur Institute .
21 In that unhappy mood he went to Paris to meet the designer Balanchine had stipulated , Dorothea Tanning , who followed the surrealist manner she had previously applied to one of Balanchine 's own ballets , Night Shadow .
22 In 1885 , at the age of twenty-nine , he went to Paris to study with Charcot , who at that time was interested in hysteria and hypnotism .
23 In 1841 he went to Paris , where he studied at the Jardin des Plantes , before returning to England to become Paxton 's assistant .
24 And Edward abdicated , and he went to Paris , France .
25 In May , just before VE Day , he travelled to Paris in order to lecture on " The Social Function of Poetry " and took the opportunity to bring small presents of soap , China tea , and other commodities to old friends there like Sylvia Beach .
26 Percy Wyndham Lewis [ q.v. ] visited Bomberg at his Tenter Buildings studio in 1912 , and in 1913 he travelled to Paris with ( Sir ) Jacob Epstein [ q.v. ] to select work for the Jewish section of an important exhibition of ‘ Twentieth Century Art ’ at the Whitechapel Art Gallery ( 1914 ) .
27 After graduating he travelled to Paris , and was there during the 1848 rising .
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