Example sentences of "in [adj] year he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that year he produced an outpouring of anti-royalist cartoons , with twenty-six lampoons of royalty being etched in all ( Hill , 1965 : 44 ) . |
| 2 | Returning to El Salvador in that year he merged the Nationalis Revolutionary Movement ( MNR , founded by Ungo in the mid-1960s ) into the Democratic Convergence coalition , standing as its presidential candidate in March 1989 [ see p. 36520 ] . |
| 3 | Also in that year he formed the Stamford Brazenose Society and at their first meeting they discussed astronomy and the latitude of Stamford , lunar maps , a remarkable wasps ' nest and a ‘ stone as big as a walnut , taken from out of the bladder of a little Dutch dog ’ . |
| 4 | In that year he married a Bristol woman and their only child , named Elizabeth after her mother , was born in 1811 . |
| 5 | In that year he received the title of Captain and Admiral-General and became Stadtholder of all the provinces . |
| 6 | Until 1892 Townsend 's practice was made up of minor domestic and ecclesiastical work , but in that year he won the competition for the design of the Bishopsgate Institute , the first of the three outstanding public buildings that were to make his reputation . |
| 7 | In that year he founded the Humanitarian League which became a channel for the promotion of his ideas . |
| 8 | But the fact that in this year he attended a party dressed as Dr Crippen suggests that there was a large element of conscious display and theatrical bravura in his creation of a character such as Harry . |
| 9 | At Dulwich and Oxford University he was an excellent athlete and Rugby Union Player , while in later years he became a good club cricketer and a member of I Zingari . |
| 10 | In later years he visited the four dominions , for each of which he established a graduate studentship ; and Melbourne and New Zealand followed St Andrews in conferring honorary degrees . |
| 11 | It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes . |
| 12 | In recent years he played a number of Shakespearean roles on stage , having earned enough from comedy to become a serious actor . |