Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he entered the alkali business . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In this he had the agreement of the ‘ new philosophers ’ of his century . |
| 4 | By this he meant the career structures and sheer institutional inertia which kept thousands of the industry 's boffins stuck to their nuclear portfolios . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | With this he faced the world , soon gravitating to Soho and the French pub , where he spent his last pennies . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | After this he joined the fire service and works today for the Shropshire Fire Brigade . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In 1876 he said the nationality problem in Eastern Europe was not ‘ worth the healthy bones of a Pomeranian musketeer ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was particularly interested in infectious diseases and public health , and in 1881 he took the Cambridge University diploma in public health . |
| 13 | Ferguson brushed aside what he called ‘ innuendo and criticism ’ and made it clear he regarded the acquisition of the French striker as a huge stepping stone towards winning the title . |
| 14 | Finding nothing edible he closed the cupboard door . |
| 15 | In 1802 he joined the Marylebone Cricket Club at its Dorset Square venue . |
| 16 | In 1630 he entered the service of Richelieu , despite the difference in their religious convictions . |
| 17 | In 1801 he wrapped the plain and pleasing ashlar face around what little he decided to retain of the earlier house . |
| 18 | Certainly to some he made the point that a government defeat would raise potential constitutional problems — the Lords could not lightly defy the will of a democratically elected House of Commons . |
| 19 | Late in 1867 he found the gate and the road . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In 1902 he was also runner-up , but in 1903 he won the championship for the fourth time . |
| 22 | In 1879 he passed the examination for county inspector and was appointed to Donegal . |
| 23 | In another he riveted the attention of his hearers with the statement , ‘ Samson was the weakest man in the Bible ! ’ |
| 24 | It was for this reason that in Du Contrat Social he mocked the English by contending that the English people " is free only during the election of Members of Parliament ; as soon as the Members are elected , the people is enslaved ; it is nothing . " |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | His map of Cheshire , begun in 1774 , must have been completed by assistants , for early in 1775 he entered the service of the margrave of Baden , leaving a wife with his considerable debts . |
| 27 | In 1894 he joined the Wilson Line in Hull as second mate of the SS Draco and three years later a chance meeting with the Norwegian explorer H. Borchgrevink , a passenger in his vessel , the Montebello , led to Colbeck 's joining the Southern Cross expedition ( 1898–1900 ) as magnetic observer , following an intensive course of instruction at Kew Observatory . |
| 28 | But he was not always a parliamentary loner : in 1586–7 he supported the clamour for Mary 's execution , and he also wanted to urge the queen to accept sovereignty of the Netherlands in the struggle against Spain . |
| 29 | So in March 1991 he negotiated the sale of the house for £283,000 , though the amount needed to redeem the mortgage was by then £358,587 . |
| 30 | One of the recent visitors to Giverny was Roy Lichtenstein , who in 1969 had used Monet 's Rouen and Haystack series as the basis for a series of lithographs. then in 1991 he used the water-lilies theme of the Nymphéas for a series of works employing a new technique , the decorative machine turnings made by abrading metal in shining whirls , which , while looking like water have the reflectiveness of stainless steel . |