Example sentences of "in [num] he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1829 he produced his first coloured print , ‘ Butterflies ’ , and achieved popular acclaim in 1834 with the coloured plates for Feathered Tribes of the British Islands by Robert Mudie [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | In 1893 he extended his theatrical pursuits well beyond dance arranging when he became producer of the summer season show at the Palace Theatre , Isle of Man . |
| 3 | The geographers were , however , never far from his thoughts , and in 1893 he produced his admirable Selections from Strabo , still the most sympathetic introduction to Strabo , to be followed in 1897 by A History of Ancient Geography , which remains one of the best , if not the best , handbook on both ancient geography and geographical writers , Greek and Latin , down to the end of the western Empire . |
| 4 | In 1808 he received his last assignment when he went to Sweden as minister . |
| 5 | In 330 he inaugurated his new eastern capital , the ‘ city of Constantine ’ at Byzantium on the Bosphorus , planned as a ‘ New Rome ’ . |
| 6 | In 1802 he joined his elder brother Daniel in founding a drapery business at 3 North Street , Brighton , where he drew and published ‘ A New and Correct Plan of Brighthelmstone ’ . |
| 7 | In 1881 he married his first cousin , Eliza , daughter of Franklin Stanley Cripps , a small shopkeeper in Wisbech . |
| 8 | He was an eccentric individual , and in 1962–63 he opened his own museum in Provincetown , Cape Cod , in which he hung the Chrysler Collection . |
| 9 | In 1929 he made his first trip to Spain , where Toledo inspired him to achieve a greater breadth and expressiveness in his landscapes . |
| 10 | In 1877 he published his best-known work , How to Draw a Straight Line . |
| 11 | After five years , Josiah was ready to set up in business on his own account , and in 1759 he established his own enterprise . |
| 12 | In 1804 he produced his first popular set of aquatints , Sixty Views of the Lakes . |
| 13 | He is known to have resided there and in 1480 he extended his Craven estates by buying the manor of Carleton in Craven and associated land from William Singleton . |
| 14 | He is known to have resided there and in 1480 he extended his Craven estates by buying the manor of Carleton in Craven and associated land from William Singleton . |
| 15 | In 1876–7 he made his first visit to Japan and this confirmed his admiration for oriental design and inspired much of his best work , as well as a book , Japan : its Architecture , Art , and Art Manufactures ( 1882 ) . |
| 16 | In 1920 he married his former secretary , Olive , daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Roddam . |
| 17 | In 1920 he published his first article , on the Hall 's history , in the first issue of its magazine , which he had launched , and in 1927 he produced a pioneering , scholarly study , An Oxford Hall in Medieval Times . |
| 18 | In 1975 he wrote his open letter to President Husak about the price that would have to be paid for delivering their country into the hands of an ‘ entropic ’ regime which depended ‘ solely on the ruling minority 's instinct of self-preservation and on the fear of the ruled majority ’ , a regime which positively required the suppression of truth and history for its surival . |
| 19 | When in 1831 he published his second novel , The Young Duke , the faults of the aristocracy lacked their social dimension . |
| 20 | In 1859 he produced his last print ‘ Dogs of St. Bernard ’ , and in 1865 he was declared bankrupt . |
| 21 | He served in Edward 's Welsh wars , but his interests increasingly centred upon Ireland : in 1283 he granted his English lands to his son Peter . |
| 22 | In 1853 he married his first cousin , Henrietta Elizabeth , daughter of Samuel Wood . |
| 23 | In 1899 he extended his earlier theory to wave behaviour at the interface between two different types of rock . |
| 24 | In 1899 he lost his much-loved daughter , Josephine , and this sad event may have been in his mind when he wrote the emotive story , They . |
| 25 | In 1922 he published his first book , Le Dragon de bambou , ridiculing the reforms in Annam . |
| 26 | Another important development was his growing attraction to his landlady ; in 1922 he divorced his teenage bride and married Inggit Garnasih . |
| 27 | In 1715 he published his own writing rules , rigid and meticulous in form , entitled The Standard Rules of the Round and Round-text Hands . |
| 28 | For instance , when Petrarch met the Emperor Charles IV at Mantua in 1354 he gave him some Roman coins with the words , ‘ Look , Caesar , on those whom you have succeeded ; look on those you should strive to emulate . ’ |
| 29 | In 1305 he found it expedient to issue an Ordinance of the Forest recognizing the disafforestments already carried out , but he declared that the inhabitants of such districts had forfeited their rights of common within the forest , and that the royal demesne should be kept in statu quo . |
| 30 | In 1818 he published his longest work , a study of the Pacific , which he had never visited : A Summary View of the Statistics and Existing Commerce of the Principal Shores of the Pacific Ocean . |