Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the firm became Bell Lawrie in 1986 he became managing director and the firm changed simultaneously from being a partnership to a limited company . |
| 2 | Eastern Bengal 's broad engine works at Saidpur feature two superb examples of inter-war Stephenson 0–6–0 tender heavy goods locos , slightly modified in West Bengal in 1936 I was reliably assured by the works ' superintendent that both of the black-painted engines were recently in steam . |
| 3 | Gilbert Edelson In 1962 I was an associate working with the law firm where the late Ralph Colin was a managing partner . |
| 4 | In Pakistan in 1983–4 he took over again when Willis had to return home sick and gained two creditable draws , after which he was officially appointed to lead England against the West Indies in 1984 , at the age of 27 . |
| 5 | He concerned himself with alleviating the slave-like conditions of negroes in the West Indies , and when war broke out in the United States in 1861 he worked at getting financial and material support for emancipated negroes . |
| 6 | This network was so well developed that when Captain Hugh Clapperton ‘ discovered ’ Kano in 1824 he was able to obtain cash from a local merchant in return for a bill of exchange on the British consul at Tripoli . |
| 7 | For the past seven years , Bates has been the one constant factor in the British Davis Cup team for since his debut against Portugal in 1985 he has never missed a match and has played singles on every occasion . |
| 8 | When the family moved to Wargrave Hill in Berkshire in 1868 she supervised every aspect of the renovations . |
| 9 | Still with Renault in 1982 he won the opening two rounds in Argentina and Brazil , after the disqualification of Piquet and Rosberg , but , sadly , they turned out to be his only successes . |
| 10 | He had started his career in the law , but while attending court at Jedburgh in 1792 he met and became friends with Robert Shortreed , Sheriff-Substitute of Roxburghshire , and was invited on expeditions into Liddesdale to listen to old tales and verses . |
| 11 | It was for the Bank team that he performed his most noteworthy cricket feat , when against Earlswood CC in 1981 he performed the hat trick with his slow off-spinners at the age of 76 . |
| 12 | On returning to Cape Town in 1938 she could remember many of the standard ballets . |
| 13 | However , his permanence at The Oval was assured , and following his handover of the captaincy to Peter May in 1957 he gave a further 22 years ' continuous service to Surrey , being Chairman of the Cricket Committee from 1968 to 1973 , culminating his year of the Presidency in 1982 . |
| 14 | San Gimignano is slightly apart from the other cities of Tuscany in that it seems to have had a relatively small element of hereditary feudal warriors among its citizens or in its contado . |
| 15 | When Elizabeth I came to the throne of England in 1558 she and her government in London ruled less land than her predecessors had done for hundreds of years . |
| 16 | When Franz Gall , phrenology 's founding father and Spurzheim 's teacher in Vienna , visited England in 1823 he brought with him a selection of some 3000 skulls , plus drawings of the great men of the past . |
| 17 | When she arrived in England in 1568 she claimed to be seeking the protection of her cousin Elizabeth , but at the same time began scheming for support in her claims to both thrones , having earlier told a priest that she ‘ trusted to find many friends when time did serve , especially among those of the old religion ’ . |
| 18 | After his return to England in 1827 he worked with his brother Henry Rome Stutchbury ( 1796–1853 ) , a dealer in natural history specimens , until in 1831 he was appointed curator of the museum of the Bristol Institution . |
| 19 | ‘ If there was anywhere safe in England in 1943 you 'd have thought that was . ’ |
| 20 | In England in 1226 it had been made clear to the king that he could not tax the clergy diocese by diocese ; such an attempt in that year had been frustrated by the request of the Salisbury cathedral chapter for consultation with the clergy of other sees ; the proctors of the cathedral and collegiate clergy subsequently attended a provincial council armed with instructions from their ‘ constituents ’ . |
| 21 | On his return to England in 1808 he rebuilt and operated the family water-mill at Horley and pursued a career as an engineer . |
| 22 | I Admittedly if we stay in the rural districts of England in 1700 we will discover that forty to fifty years is not unrealistic , but old age is rare . |
| 23 | Now although the only known brother of Æthelred named Edmund died in the early 970s , when Thietmar of Merseburg describes events in England in 1016 he tells how , after a battle in which Edmund was killed , the Danes fled from before London because they had heard that help was on the way from Edmund 's brother Æthelstan and the Britannis . |
| 24 | Weavers and combers might at most times make common cause against clothiers , but when the import of ready-combed Irish wool was the issue at Tiverton in 1749 they came to blows . |
| 25 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 26 | When he started at the NHS in Scotland in 1989 he took the same approach . |
| 27 | First licensed by Bishop Lacey of Exeter in 1436 it was used for special intercession by barren women seeking fertility . |
| 28 | What is tolerably certain is that he was still alive when he either entered into confraternity with Christ Church or Cnut gave them his name , and that when Cnut himself sailed for Denmark in 1019 it was to suppress trouble . |
| 29 | As a youngest son his own prospects had been poor — his sojourn abroad had been in the company of his rich younger cousin Francis Whithead , to whom he may initially have acted as tutor — but on the death of his only surviving brother Anthony in 1754 he unexpectedly succeeded to the family estates . |
| 30 | He so impressed Kolbe that when the great German chemist , A. W. von Hofmann , professor at the Royal College of Chemistry in London , visited Marburg in 1858 he recommended Griess for a position in Hofmann 's laboratory . |