Example sentences of "[num] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he instituted the National Art Survey to record all pre-eighteenth-century buildings . |
| 2 | In 1895 he entered the alkali business . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In 1465 he received the most valuable component of his early endowment , the duchy lordships of Bolingbroke ( Lincs . ) , |
| 5 | In 1465 he received the most valuable component of his early endowment , the duchy lordships of Bolingbroke ( Lincs . ) , |
| 6 | In 1876 he said the nationality problem in Eastern Europe was not ‘ worth the healthy bones of a Pomeranian musketeer ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was particularly interested in infectious diseases and public health , and in 1881 he took the Cambridge University diploma in public health . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In 1802 he joined the Marylebone Cricket Club at its Dorset Square venue . |
| 14 | In 1630 he entered the service of Richelieu , despite the difference in their religious convictions . |
| 15 | In 1801 he wrapped the plain and pleasing ashlar face around what little he decided to retain of the earlier house . |
| 16 | In 1867 he joined the Independent Order of Good Templars , a fraternal society for teetotal men and women which , unlike most fraternal societies , offered no mutual aid financial scheme . |
| 17 | Late in 1867 he found the gate and the road . |
| 18 | Writing in Artificial Intelligence magazine in 1985 he said the AI community in NASA and beyond were arrogant in their refusal to examine ‘ anything more than a couple of centuries old . |
| 19 | In 1985 he wrote the famous No Turning Back pamphlet and was a member of the Adam Smith Omega Project which drafted the privatisation blueprint for the second Thatcher government . |
| 20 | In 1780 he entered the Royal Navy as surgeon 's mate , becoming full surgeon in 1782 . |
| 21 | 2 He delivers the side thrust kick to the chin , pushing the hips into the kick . |
| 22 | In Section 2 he rejects the suggestion , conveyed by the exclamation , ‘ Surely a similarity must strike us , or we should n't be moved to use the same word ’ , that some act must precede the act of using the word ; and in Sections 5 and 10 he talks about the ‘ mistake ’ labelled by the word ‘ to make ’ as it occurs in the question , ‘ What made you call this ‘ red ’ ? ’ ) |
| 23 | 2 He lifts the knee while turning , thrusting the hips into the kick . |
| 24 | 2 He throws the hips into the kick . |
| 25 | In 1902 he was also runner-up , but in 1903 he won the championship for the fourth time . |
| 26 | In 1903 he joined the royal commission on the coal supplies of Great Britain ( 1901–5 ) . |
| 27 | His first patent was taken out in 1875 ; he constructed dynamometers which won a medal at the 1878 Paris exhibition ; and in 1879 he invented the liquid microphone . |
| 28 | In 1879 he passed the examination for county inspector and was appointed to Donegal . |
| 29 | On Sept. 22 he dismissed the chiefs of the police and of the criminal investigations directorate Cerezo further claimed in early December that members of the ruling Arena party in El Salvador ( in particular Maj. Roberto d'Aubuisson , the founder of Arena ) were supplying arms to violent right-wing elements in Guatemala . |
| 30 | In 1825 he induced the then foreign minister , the comte de Damas , to experiment with an essay competition as a means of choosing the most able young attachés for promotion to secretary of embassy or legation ; and in 1830 the Prince de Polignac , who had succeeded Damas , was persuaded to set up another training course . |