Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] year he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 2 | Chief Superintendent McLean says that last summer the resources he allocated to the protection of the Ks were greater than those given to anything , other than really serious crimes such as murder , in the two years he had been in charge of Hounslow division . |
| 3 | In the new year he sent Sixsmith a series — one might almost say a sequence — of screenplays on group-jeopardy themes . |
| 4 | In the first years he had easy-going jailers . |
| 5 | In the following year he received 1416 parcels of seed from correspondents and collectors employed by him . |
| 6 | In the following year he received a major grant of land in Northamptonshire formerly held by Isabel Peche ( died 1479 ) . |
| 7 | In the following year he had succeeded in attracting so much public attention that the government was obliged to hurry through parliament a new Merchant Shipping Act setting a fixed load line for ships — the " Plimsoll Line " . |
| 8 | The final partition of the inheritance in 1474 also brought him Chesterfield and Scarsdale ( Derbs. ) and Bushey ( Herts. ) which in the following year he exchanged with the crown for more land in Yorkshire : a further piece of Cottingham ; the royal castle and lordship of Scarborough ; and land in Falsgrave , with the fee farm there . |
| 9 | The final partition of the inheritance in 1474 also brought him Chesterfield and Scarsdale ( Derbs. ) and Bushey ( Herts. ) which in the following year he exchanged with the crown for more land in Yorkshire : a further piece of Cottingham ; the royal castle and lordship of Scarborough ; and land in Falsgrave , with the fee farm there . |
| 10 | In the following year he crossed Manchuria from Statensk in Siberia to Vladivostok , and during his time as Far Eastern correspondent of The Times he visited every province of China except Tibet . |
| 11 | Then in the following year he gave Lewis £200 , to finance a trip to Sweden where he was to receive X-ray treatment for his deteriorating eyesight . |
| 12 | In the following year he invaded Pictish territory , where he was defeated and killed at Nechtansmere , now Dunnichen Moss , near Forfar , on 20 May 685 . |
| 13 | In the following year he published a volume of twenty coloured aquatint views of St Petersburg , and the reference in his will to jewellery presented to him by the emperor of Russia may be connected with these events . |
| 14 | In the following year he published An Observer in the Near East , and in 1911–12 returned to journalism as correspondent for the Daily Mirror covering the Balkan war . |
| 15 | In the following year he won the 100 yards AAA title ; he had for a while reigned as the British number one high jumper . |
| 16 | In the following years he began to propound diffusionism , the doctrine that cultural traits were not independently invented but carried from one area to another . |
| 17 | In the following years he took the diploma of ARCS and B.Sc. |
| 18 | In the nine years he remained at school his closest companions were to include Bob Allen , Val le Grice , and Thomas Middleton ; but no friend proved more lasting or dependable than the gifted , tongue-tied Charles Lamb , son of a minor official at the Inner Temple . |
| 19 | In 1705 he wrote that he doubted whether he would see the winter through and early in the next year he died , leaving a last , unfinished letter to his young friend . |
| 20 | In the next year he had custody of Rochester Castle . |
| 21 | In November 1251 Henry III granted to the men of Archenfield in Herefordshire freedom from the Forest jurisdiction , and in the next year he ordered the sheriff : |
| 22 | In the next years he translated Weiss on the Psalms , published an introduction to Barth 's Church Dogmatics and continued to write . |
| 23 | In the 3 years he 's been there , he 's had 2 burglaries and this is the second van that 's been taken . |
| 24 | In the past year he had been restraining the army and trying for a political settlement ; and there have been signs that Tamil extremists may be prepared to talk about autonomy rather than secession . |
| 25 | But in the past year he has slipped quietly into the background as team manager Micky Stewart and captain Graham Gooch have dominated selection . |
| 26 | If this elevation to the highest level reflected John 's standing with his fellow magnates , in the ensuing years he gained and retained the confidence of the king . |
| 27 | In the same year he made his first parachute jump from an airship . |
| 28 | In the same year he married the King of France 's sister , Henrietta Maria ; a secret clause in the marriage treaty bound Charles to allow open freedom of worship to English Roman Catholics , a condition which would have been quite unacceptable to Parliament . |
| 29 | This marriage , of which there were no children , was dissolved in 1924 and in the same year he married Edith Dora Hodges , singer , daughter of Joseph Hodges , butcher of Tooting ; they had three sons and one daughter . |
| 30 | They were divorced in 1937 and in the same year he married Margaret Cairns White , daughter of a Lancashire textile-warehouse manager of Irish descent . |