Example sentences of "[vb past] in [adj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demobilized in 1919 he was appointed a chaplain to the king . |
| 2 | The 19 per cent who thought in 1987 he would make the best Prime Minister compares with 28 per cent today . |
| 3 | When Shaw died in 1950 he was a very rich man — the net value of his estate was eventually assessed at around £6,250,000 in terms of today 's money ; and the closest Holroyd comes to a sustained narrative is in tracing the fate of his various bequests . |
| 4 | When the last de Burgh Earl of Ulster died in 1333 he left only a daughter , Elizabeth Countess of Ulster in her own right , whom the king married to his second son , Lionel of Antwerp , created Duke of Clarence in 1362 . |
| 5 | When he died in 1751 he was succeeded by his son William V , then a child of three . |
| 6 | Samuel Fox Esq was born in 1815 , and when he died in 1887 he was the first person to be buried in the cemetery attached to the church . |
| 7 | While there is evidence to support some of Peckham 's accusations , especially over appropriations , they were made when Roger was already a sick man in decline : when he died in 1295 he was described as of great age . |
| 8 | When the Earl of Surrey died in 1347 he left no direct heir . |
| 9 | Sir William Pickering was Knight Marshal to Henry VIII , and when he died in 1542 he left Oswaldkirk to his 24-year-old son , an extremely handsome and distinguished courtier and diplomat , brave and wise as well , and considered at one time as a suitor for Queen Elizabeth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | After his father died in 1859 he was sent to a Huguenot school in Friedrichsdorf . |
| 15 | No one was ever convicted of Edward 's murder , though when Mortimer fell in 1330 he was accused of procuring the king 's death . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But when the fever struck in 1756 he was obliged to give up the periodical work by which he made a living in London . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When Joe Davis finally retired in 1964 he said ‘ snooker has no future ’ . |
| 20 | Before he retired in 1939 he had played a key role in the establishment of archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge . |
| 21 | 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 . |