Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] [art] [noun] " 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 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 | From this he took a photograph which he passed across to Mrs Wilson . |
| 5 | After what seemed like a good twenty minutes of this he took a handful of rice from a gourd at his belt and scattered it over the waters . |
| 6 | He was still confronting me in a pugnacious attitude , but at this he took a step back . |
| 7 | In this he had the agreement of the ‘ new philosophers ’ of his century . |
| 8 | To this he added a determination that existing regulations which restricted the number and quality of foreign seamen employed on British ships should he enforced and strengthened , drawing attention to the abuse whereby shipowners discharged British seamen at foreign ports and hired cheaper foreign crews to replace them and to the need to repeal the Indian Merchant Shipping Act which permitted owners to employ lascars on worse terms than British seamen . |
| 9 | By this he meant the career structures and sheer institutional inertia which kept thousands of the industry 's boffins stuck to their nuclear portfolios . |
| 10 | From this he ran a fuse through the floor and out of an air vent into the garden outside . |
| 11 | The Colonel inspected the guard and then received from the architects a gold key inscribed " Stockport Grammar School , 1487 " ; with this he unlocked the west door and declared the buildings open . |
| 12 | My understanding is that in 1977 Willy De Roos achieved this under sail in one season , and for this he received a Krug Award for Excellence . |
| 13 | To pay for this he raised a mortgage of £500 on his house . |
| 14 | With this he faced the world , soon gravitating to Soho and the French pub , where he spent his last pennies . |
| 15 | Out of this he drew a Cellophane packet . |
| 16 | However , he had one final argument , more crushing than any he had yet delivered , and for this he needed no words . |
| 17 | From this he calculated the time it would take a sated bat to starve to death , the time it would take an empty bat to starve to death , and all intermediates . |
| 18 | After this he joined the fire service and works today for the Shropshire Fire Brigade . |
| 19 | In addition to this he held a government post as inspector of science and arts for Irish schools from 1894 . |
| 20 | You will recall that when we talked about the libido theory , I said that there were erm different one of the reasons why Freud had to introduce the libido theory was he wanted to get away from the narrow biological reproductive concept of sex to do with genitals and reproduction which is of course he 'd want to expand it to include psychological never seen before er or never seen before so clearly , such as erm love of the self and , and this he gave the name narcissism , well he did n't actually , somebody else invented it not long before and he took it over very quickly . |
| 21 | In addition to this he favoured a condom made from a sheep 's intestine and a collection of two-ounce gold balls which seemingly brought security and immense satisfaction to his partners . |
| 22 | In 1876 he said the nationality problem in Eastern Europe was not ‘ worth the healthy bones of a Pomeranian musketeer ’ . |
| 23 | in 1876 he became a research assistant to P. G. Tait [ q.v. ] , professor of natural philosophy . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In March 1972 he made a £360 million offer for the Red Barrel brewer , winning control three months later . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |