Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His childhood was spent in Cranleigh , and he was educated at Edgeborough School , Guildford , where he revealed precocious talents as artist , poet , and sportsman , and at Christ 's Hospital , London . |
| 2 | A graduate of Clare College , Cambridge , where he read mechanical sciences , he joined BNFL at Sellafield in 1981 . |
| 3 | At its farthest point , that spot where he hovered high in the air before the rope changed direction , he knew that he was suspended sixty feet above Mucky Beck and the perimeter wall . |
| 4 | In 1964 he founded the Glynn Research Laboratories , where he directed biochemical research until 1986 . |
| 5 | He was later Head of the Unemployment Benefit Service , which he managed with great skill , and where he made many friends . |
| 6 | A dreadful second shot from the perfect position in the middle of the 10th fairway had to be retrieved with a deft bunker shot ; he was deep in the trees at the 11th , where he took five , and bunkered at the 12th , though again at no cost to him . |
| 7 | The evening meal had been re-scheduled for 8.30 p.m. ; and with time to spare , after throwing his own large hold-all on to the counterpane of his single bed , Ashenden joined a few of the other tourists in the Residents ' Lounge , where he took some sheets of the hotel 's own note-paper , and began to write a letter . |
| 8 | A possible chance of an eagle , or certainly a birdie , went begging at the 13th , where he took three to get down from nowhere but from then on he became a different player . |
| 9 | He recorded a visit of several days to Thorndon , Lord Petre 's estate , where he collected many rare specimens and must have been delighted by the tapestry of exotic climbers woven through trellises at the back of the stoves ( see p. 55 ) . |
| 10 | The last one-man show he ever held in London was staged at the Leger Gallery ( 1943 ) , and the only art school to accept him as a teacher was the Borough Polytechnic , where he taught part-time from 1945 to 1953 . |
| 11 | Jaffray left them there , and battled across to the shore on his own where he summoned other help . |
| 12 | When he was thirteen , despite an erratic academic performance at King 's , Sorley gained an open scholarship to Marlborough College , where he developed two abiding sensual passions , for food and cross-country running . |
| 13 | During the war of 1914–18 he served in the food production department of the Board of Agriculture , where he developed sex-linked plumage variants as a means of sexing chicks ; this led to many of the commercial ‘ self-sexing ’ breeds . |
| 14 | Shortly afterwards Howard left Stoke Newington and moved back to central London , to St Pauls Churchyard , where he owned several houses in the neighbourhood . |
| 15 | After a childhood in Lanark , Scotland , where he attended preparatory school , Douglas went to Canada in 1819 in the employ of a firm soon absorbed by the Hudson 's Bay Company . |
| 16 | We went quietly up to the top floor , where he unlocked one of the small black doors . |
| 17 | Having a married sister in Cape Town , he sailed for South Africa in 1914 , where he painted some pictures , gave a series of lectures on modern art , and published a few articles and poems . |
| 18 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 19 | He was accused of rape and murder after attending a dance where he became intimate with a gardener 's daughter named Mary Ashford . |
| 20 | He was a physician who , after qualifying in medicine in 1912 , worked for a time at University College Hospital , London , where he became interested in bacteriology and the developing discipline of immunology . |
| 21 | He stayed on at the Cambridge biochemistry department as demonstrator until 1955 , when he moved to Edinburgh University as director of the chemical biology unit of the Department of Zoology , where he became senior lecturer and then Reader . |
| 22 | In 1920 , for example , the notoriously rotund producer G. B. Samuelson made a trip to Universal Studios , where he produced six pictures to learn what he could about the American way of doing things . |
| 23 | This time , he appeared in the heavyweight division where he produced similar results , throwing his three opponents in the preliminary rounds for ippon ( 10 points ) . |
| 24 | Joe Meek moved to North London and in 1960 he set up his own recording studios above a leather shop , where he produced dozens of hits … |
| 25 | The leader of another informal nationalist grouping , the Forum for the Peoples of Abkhazia , was elected to the Congress of People 's Deputies and to the new-style Supreme Soviet , where he expressed some reservations about the idea of strengthening the fifteen union republics at the expense , almost certainly , of the smaller national-territorial units that were subordinate to them . |
| 26 | He then moved to University where he spent eight years in research and development in Artificial Intelligence and particularly Expert Systems . |
| 27 | The Prince of Wales , he claimed , wanted money to support his horse racing ; the Duke of York to pay his bets and preserve his credit at Mucklow 's Tennis Court where he spent much of his time and lost a great deal of money estimated at £200,000 . |
| 28 | But Halling which he loved and where he spent fifteen happy years has no recognition of this great man . |
| 29 | Christopher , of Bognor Regis , Sussex , was rushed to hospital , where he spent five days recovering from his ordeal . |
| 30 | In 1948 , he was appointed to the St Mungo ( Notman ) chair of pathology in the University of Glasgow and consultant pathologist to Glasgow Royal Infirmary , where he spent six happy and productive years — at a critical time for the NHS — before accepting the invitation to the chair of pathology in Edinburgh . |