Example sentences of "[num] he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the spring of 1167 he led an army into the Auvergne , right on the eastern border of Aquitaine , in order to lay waste the land of Count William of Auvergne , who seems to have dispossessed his nephew the young Count . |
| 2 | In 1895 he instituted the National Art Survey to record all pre-eighteenth-century buildings . |
| 3 | In 1895 he entered the alkali business . |
| 4 | In April 1895 he discussed the construction of the Bat with Otto Lilienthal , the German hang-gliding pioneer , and learned a great deal about the practical problems of controlling hang-gliders in the air . |
| 5 | In 1465 he received the most valuable component of his early endowment , the duchy lordships of Bolingbroke ( Lincs . ) , |
| 6 | In 1465 he received the most valuable component of his early endowment , the duchy lordships of Bolingbroke ( Lincs . ) , |
| 7 | In 1876 he took a similar position at the Blaenavon ironworks in Monmouthshire under the management of Edward Martin . |
| 8 | In 1876 he said the nationality problem in Eastern Europe was not ‘ worth the healthy bones of a Pomeranian musketeer ’ . |
| 9 | in 1876 he became a research assistant to P. G. Tait [ q.v. ] , professor of natural philosophy . |
| 10 | In 1876 he built a high water tower , topped for a time with a telescope . |
| 11 | Mill Reef returned to Longchamp the following spring to notch up a ten-length victory in the Prix Ganay , but after a lacklustre display when beating Homeric a neck in the Coronation Cup at Epsom he did not race again : he was being prepared for a second Arc when on 30 August 1972 he fractured a foreleg on the gallops , and was retired to stud . |
| 12 | In March 1972 he made a £360 million offer for the Red Barrel brewer , winning control three months later . |
| 13 | In 1972 he opened a shop in the Kings Road , at first selling teddy-boy schmutter , much later , in premises renamed Sex , rubber and leather bondage clothing . |
| 14 | It came from many quarters , both domestic and foreign , for his megalomaniac , as it was often characterized , insistence on Iran 's ‘ imperial vocation ’ of which in 1972 he celebrated the 2,500th birthday . |
| 15 | In 1933 he suffered a complete ‘ moral and mental collapse ’ and departed the Colonial Service . |
| 16 | He was also a self-educated man , with a particular interest in astronomy , and in 1933 he discovered a white spot on the surface of Saturn . |
| 17 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 18 | Charles McCall began life as a clerk to a firm of lawyers in Edinburgh , but in 1933 he won a scholarship to Edinburgh College of Art , where he studied under DM Sutherland and SJ Peploe . |
| 19 | In 1933 he joined the Old Vic Company for an impressive range of stage work ( Henry VIII again , The Cherry Orchard , Macbeth , Measure for Measure , The Tempest ) and in 1936 he was the first English actor ever to be invited to appear at the Comédie Française in Paris , where he played Molière 's Le Médecin Malgré Lui . |
| 20 | In 1885 he became a founder-member of council of the Manchester Photographic Society , where he met some of the most notable pioneers of early photographic techniques , and in the same year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 21 | In 1540 he transformed the office of Wards , formed in 1503 , into the Court of Wards , to which was joined the office of Liveries in 1542 . |
| 22 | In 1881 he took a job at Hale Farm Nurseries ; then , not long after , in order to start experimenting with his ideas on design , accepted a partnership with a firm of contractors . |
| 23 | He was particularly interested in infectious diseases and public health , and in 1881 he took the Cambridge University diploma in public health . |
| 24 | He came to regret the destruction for which he had been responsible in the name of church restoration under the unenlightened rules prevailing at the time , and in 1881 he joined the recently formed Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings , for which he worked quietly but assiduously into old age . |
| 25 | About 1881 he tried a change of policy by having some mapping done on the one-inch scale in order to speed up the surveying . |
| 26 | In 1802 he joined the Marylebone Cricket Club at its Dorset Square venue . |
| 27 | In 1776 he became an active member of the ( Smeatonian ) Society of Civil Engineers , the influential dining club of John Smeaton [ q.v. ] and other leading practical men of the day . |
| 28 | In 1776 he became an active partner in this firm , now styled Barclay , Bevan & Bening . |
| 29 | By the age of twenty-one he had a managerial post in charge of fifteen people . |
| 30 | At the age of twenty-one he became a captain of his father 's ships and remained at sea until 1818 , acquiring a worldwide knowledge of shipping and navigation . |