Example sentences of "[vb past] in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For all their mock grandeur , Regency Brighton 's buildings were poorly executed and when George IV ( as ‘ Prinny ’ had become ) died in 1830 he left a rather tatty urban memorial on the Sussex coast . |
| 32 | When his father died in 1846 he had to support the family , but his career took on a dramatic new turn when he was asked to undertake a contract to build a bridge over the River Severn near his home . |
| 33 | He consolidated the economic and political base of the Nemanjić dynasty , and when he died in 1227 he left behind a secure and well-organised state which was able to survive both the external pressures from the rising power of the revived Bulgarian empire and the internal quarrels of the subordinate Serbian županates . |
| 34 | For three generations the Spring family played a dominant part in this , and when Thomas Spring III died in 1523 he was wealthier than many of the nobility and was the richest commoner in England outside London ; he owned 26 manors in eastern England and held property in 130 parishes ( 82 , pp.13 , 94 , 152–3 ) . |
| 35 | Anne had four brothers , three of whom died young , and when the youngest brother Jeremy died in 1813 she inherited Shibden Hall ( now a folk museum ) , Halifax , and went to live there in 1815 with her aunt and uncle . |
| 36 | After his father died in 1859 he was sent to a Huguenot school in Friedrichsdorf . |
| 37 | When their mother died in 1778 she was sent away to Halifax , to stay with her mother 's cousin , Miss Elizabeth Threlkeld , for nine years ; she then lived at Penrith with her grand-parents , seeing William for only a short time , and from 1789 to 1794 was away from the Lake District again , in the care of her uncle and aunt at Forncett in Norfolk . |
| 38 | No one was ever convicted of Edward 's murder , though when Mortimer fell in 1330 he was accused of procuring the king 's death . |
| 39 | He instantly took in that I brought bad news and steered me at once into the noisy outside coupling space between the dayniter and the central dining car . |
| 40 | In an interview she gave in 1974 she explained that the goal of her fiction was to re-activate the language of conceptual knowledge through metaphor : |
| 41 | ‘ Although I emigrated in 1965 it must be more than 30 years since Keith and I celebrated our birthdays together , ’ he said . |
| 42 | By the time he left in 1931 it was clear to him that there was a need for the Dutch to establish trading and cultural links not only with Saudi Arabia but with the Yemen and Hadhramaut , and most of his subsequent career in Arabia was devoted to this end . |
| 43 | Ardiles said he began to mistrust Swindon Town 's former chairman Brian Hillier , who 's on trial with Macari , and former club accountant Vince Farrar.Ardiles said in 1990 he stopped offering the cash bonuses , and players were soon paid a monthly salary direct into their bank accounts.Macari , Hillier , and Farrar deny the charges , and the case continues . |
| 44 | In an article I wrote in 1970 I described the whirlpool of activity in the official curriculum : in syllabuses , in Institutes of Education , in curriculum centres , and I commented sadly that ‘ most of its impetus is at the centre , that some of it is circular , that its impetus decreases rapidly towards the perimeter and that the vast majority of primary schools lie in the stagnant water outside and are totally unaffected by its movement ’ . |
| 45 | But when the fever struck in 1756 he was obliged to give up the periodical work by which he made a living in London . |
| 46 | By 1983 the Task Force had become more institutionalized in that it had begun to deal with matters relating to mainstream local-authority funding programmes , Urban Programme submissions , derelict-land grant applications , and so on . |
| 47 | And he says while it may be understandable that Channel 4 is reluctant to see so much of their dirty linen washed in public he argues that it is in the public interest that this should happen . |
| 48 | When Joe Davis finally retired in 1964 he said ‘ snooker has no future ’ . |
| 49 | Before he retired in 1939 he had played a key role in the establishment of archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge . |
| 50 | Watson was elected a Fellow and Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1967 , and by the time he retired in 1979 he had guided it through its greatest period of change since its creation in 1818 , with dramatic increases in membership . |
| 51 | The company was formed on Albert Hill in 1864 and by the time it closed in 1879 it had been responsible for 40 bridges in Denmark , 20 bridges in Sweden all built in 1874 , all the viaducts on the Whitby-RedcarMiddlesbrough line including the Staithes Viaduct , Llandudno pier , a bridge in Syria , another over the Tay in Scotland and a footbridge over the Tees at Barnard Castle . |