Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] he be " in BNC.
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1 | Already in 1610 he was one of ‘ a select number of the Lower House ’ who met with the lord treasurer , Robert Cecil , first Earl of Salisbury [ q.v. ] , son of his father 's patron , to discuss impositions . |
2 | Already in 1914 he was exhorting the readers of Poetry ( Chicago ) : |
3 | Already in 1928 he was protesting that his own pronouncements at the time of the Imagist manifesto were tailored to the specific needs of 1914 , and should not be taken as binding fourteen years later . |
4 | Finally in 1979 he was appointed department manager of the Colchester & East Essex Co-operative Society Ltd . |
5 | Early in 1916 he was commissioned as a camouflage officer in the Royal Engineers and served in France , Italy , and Belgium , reaching the rank of captain . |
6 | After returning to Bombay early in 1858 he was appointed the East India Company 's agent in Zanzibar and British consul , the previous consul having died at his post thirteen months previously . |
7 | Early in 1365 he was granted the post of master mason to Wells Cathedral , apparently through the influence of William of Wykeham [ q.v . ] . |
8 | Early in 1656 he was appointed rear-admiral of the fleet being sent against Spain under Generals Robert Blake [ q.v. ] and Edward Mountagu ( later first Earl of Sandwich , q.v. ) , and took part in the long blockade of Cadiz . |
9 | He was already in Paris on the king 's business during July 1258 , and early in 1263 he was one of Henry III 's proctors in the French royal court . |
10 | Early in 1344 he was charged with building the king 's new ‘ Round Table ’ at Windsor Castle , from 16 February until 27 November ; the work was then stopped , and later abandoned and destroyed . |
11 | Early in 1399 he was promoted master in Chancery . |
12 | In 1582 and 1586 he served Leicester in the Netherlands and later in 1586 he was returned to Parliament for Callington , Cornwall . |
13 | When later in 1823 he was once again arrested for debt , he watched fellow debtors in King 's Bench Prison perform a mock election which became the subject of a famous painting exhibited in 1828 and bought by George IV for £500 — ‘ baronets , and bankers , authors and merchants , painters and poets , dandies of rank in silk and velvet and dandies of no rank in rags and tatters , idiotism and insanity , poverty and affliction , all mingled in indiscriminate merriment , with a spiked wall twenty feet high above their heads ! ’ |
14 | There was never a vestige of evidence that he had passed information to the Russians , and eventually in 1962 he was rehabilitated . |
15 | Between 1888 and 1900 Aglen served in a number of posts in Peking , Amoy , Canton , and Tientsin ; in 1897 he was appointed to the rank of commissioner ; and shortly after the Boxer rising broke out in 1900 he was posted to Shanghai as officiating inspector-general while Hart was a refugee in the British legation under siege in Peking . |
16 | Soon after war broke out in 1914 he was asked to join ID 25 , the department of naval intelligence known as Room 40 , as a cryptographer . |
17 | In the thirties he took up abstract painting then in 1942 he was commissioned as a war artist , painting the bombed Coventry Cathedral . |
18 | In the thirties he took up abstract painting then in 1942 he was commissioned as a war artist , painting the bombed Coventry Cathedral . |
19 | He was director in Shillong , Simla , and Calcutta ; then in 1933 he was appointed surveyor-general and held this position until his retirement in 1937 . |
20 | Yet he knew , at least in this he was n't alone : the feeling , if it did n't pervade the camp , certainly pervaded his section . |
21 | Late in 1688 he was overthrown by a revolt in which most of the powerful men in the country rose against him , though they would probably not have rebelled if William of Orange , the ruler of the Netherlands who became William III of England , had not organized an invasion . |
22 | Late in 1868 he was invited by Colonel John Stewart Wood , the inspector-general of the RIC , to become his private secretary . |
23 | Late in 1774 he was presented to Weston Longville , Norfolk , a well-provided living worth some £400 a year . |
24 | When he did this again in 1564 he was received less amicably , and in 1568 he found a visiting fleet at San Juan de Ulloa hostile enough to alarm him . |
25 | What was much more important in the rise of MacGregor , he said , was that in private he was genial company and , more importantly , his ‘ decency ’ . |
26 | Soon afterwards in 1838 he was appointed engineer and manager on the construction of the Box tunnel on the Great Western Railway , acquitting himself so well that he attracted the favourable notice of Isambard K. Brunel [ q.v. ] , so that on the completion of the tunnel he joined the engineering staff of the GWR . |
27 | If Le Sacre du Printemps was important for the poem , significantly in 1924 he was thinking of a new ‘ strict form ’ of drama , akin to the Russian Ballet . |