Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he became secretary to the British Association seismological committee for study of earth tremors and the following year he and the seismologist John Milne [ q.v. ] , newly returned from his pioneering work in Japan , became joint secretaries of its newly established subcommittee for seismological investigation , until Davison retired from this position in 1899 . |
| 2 | In 1895 he became gas engineer and in 1900 transferred to a similar post on the Midland Railway at Derby , where he became assistant works manager in 1905 , works manager in 1907 , and chief mechanical engineer in 1909 . |
| 3 | In 1895 he married Ethel Louisa , daughter of John Robert Griffith , a solicitor , of Llanrwst , north Wales . |
| 4 | In 1895 he married Katherine Mary , daughter of Thomas McEwen , dominie of Baldernock School . |
| 5 | In 1895 he married Emmie Needham ( died 1934 ) , daughter of Philip Smith . |
| 6 | In 1895 he married Nellie Dacey , daughter of a Sheffield railway guard . |
| 7 | In 1895 he married Rhoda , daughter of Colin Gibb Lawrence , bookkeeper , of Brechin . |
| 8 | In 1895 he contested West Leeds as a Conservative against Herbert ( later Viscount ) Gladstone [ q.v. ] and was defeated by only ninety-six votes . |
| 9 | For this he cites Pinnel 's Case . |
| 10 | In this he resembled Bonamy Dobrée at Leeds , who reacted with the utmost dismay when his pet student , Robin Skelton , announced his engagement to a fellow-student . |
| 11 | From the latter , he derived the proposition that intent is the mens rea of rape and to this he added recklessness . |
| 12 | In this he followed Attaingnant , who had from his earliest days been printing gaillardes et pavanes for four instruments ( 1529 ) , basses danses garnies de recoupes for the lute ( 1529 ) , basses dances , branles , pavennes and gaillardes , nearly all in four instrumental parts ( 1530 ) , and gaillardes pavennes , branles et basses dances for keyboard ( 1531 ) , at least some of which were based on polyphonic chansons . |
| 13 | This he calls climatotherapy . |
| 14 | In all this he found time to address meetings for these and many other bodies , hold weekly classes for teaching the youth of his synagogue post-biblical history and related subjects , write articles for the Jewish press ( he founded an Anglo Jewish Journal called The Jewish Times later to be absorbed into the Canadian Jewish Chronicle ) . |
| 15 | When the Cid heard this he gave command to store all his Castles , and had them well repaired . |
| 16 | Spaak himself feared that the post-Messina negotiations might fail ; to avoid this he urged Britain to join in the negotiations currently being conducted by the Six . |
| 17 | In this he mirrors Eliza . |
| 18 | In 1876 he married Marian , daughter of John Deakin Heaton , physician , of Claremont , Leeds , but she died following the birth of their daughter in 1878 . |
| 19 | In 1972 he telephoned Vlitos , having read a scientific paper by Khan and Hough about the chlorinated sugars . |
| 20 | During the 1890s he attended dinners in Paris , moved in informed circles and had many friends in influential positions , amongst them the statesman Clemenceau ; he read newspapers , subscribed to journals and amassed a huge library ; he also kept abreast of political and cultural matters , having pronounced views on the Dreyfus Affair and initiating a subscription to acquire Monet 's Olympia for the nation . |
| 21 | In 1933 he produced Enquiries into Religion and Culture , in 1934 Medieval Religion , and in 1943 a very personal socio-political testament , The Judgment of the Nations . |
| 22 | However , in 1933 he coached Britain to a Davis Cup triumph . |
| 23 | On the king 's behalf in 1276 he urged Llewellyn , Lord of Snowdonia , to acknowledge Edward as his feudal lord , and in February 1277 he excommunicated Llewellyn for refusing an offer of mediation . |
| 24 | From 1583 he took part in the administration of Aldersgate ward in the City of London , where he lived ; from 1606 he was the ward 's senior common councilman . |
| 25 | In 1872 he married Elizabeth Mary , daughter of Alfred Smee [ q.v. ] , surgeon and metallurgist . |
| 26 | In 1872 he married Clara Maria , daughter of Swinton Boult [ q.v . ] , |
| 27 | In 1885 he married Catherine Alice , daughter of James Hall of Kynsal Lodge , Audlem , Cheshire . |
| 28 | In 1885 he married Alice Mary , daughter of George Palmer [ q.v . ] , |
| 29 | In 1885 he married Fanny Marian , daughter of the painter John Callcott Horsley , RA [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | In 1885 he married Mary , eldest daughter of the Revd James Main Dixon , minister of Free Martyrs church , Paisley ; they had one son and three daughters . |