Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he instituted the National Art Survey to record all pre-eighteenth-century buildings . |
| 2 | In this he made the Black Panthers the first significant radical group to recognize gay liberation as a valid political movement , and did so in terms which provoked hostility from some in his own party : ‘ maybe I 'm injecting some of my prejudices by saying that ‘ even a homosexual can be revolutionary' ’ . |
| 3 | Within this he pinned the official announcement that sentence of death had been carried out . |
| 4 | With this he struck the first blow , and broke it in striking . ’ |
| 5 | In this he initiated the Great Debate by exhorting teachers to ‘ satisfy parents and industry that what you are doing meets their requirements and the needs of their children ’ . |
| 6 | After this he ranked the great road north to Barnet , then that to Kent and those to Chelmsford and Uxbridge . |
| 7 | From this he reckoned the underground passage was now clear of the house foundations and heading out towards the outer fence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | From Rozanov 's expression it was clear he felt the same . |
| 12 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In 1780 he entered the Royal Navy as surgeon 's mate , becoming full surgeon in 1782 . |
| 16 | In 1903 he joined the royal commission on the coal supplies of Great Britain ( 1901–5 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If it was unavailable he took the dry and mixed that with sugar to achieve the same effect . |
| 20 | On May 26 he won the Darbakalan by-election , easily defeating his Congress ( I ) opponent by 53,000 votes . |
| 21 | In 1711 he became the official printer of the London Gazette and the South Sea Company . |
| 22 | In 1874 he entered the Royal ( ‘ Dick ’ ) Veterinary College , Edinburgh , and in 1876 became MRCVS . |
| 23 | Holroyd Smith was indeed keen to demonstrate the relative success of his new traction system : on June 29th he operated the first test runs in Princess Street , using one of the experimental Manchester cars . |
| 24 | In 77/78 he relinquished the hot seat to former Grundle Ferry Dynamo boss , Roy Alderman , and then the following season to Rabbi Lionel Cohen , who never attended a Saturday match on religious grounds . |
| 25 | In 1898 he presented the fine site overlooking Aberystwyth on which the National Library of Wales was built . |
| 26 | In the first and second he recognised the papal authority because the Queen and Parliament had accepted it . |
| 27 | He told the villa 's owner Count Robert de Beaumont how much he loved the sun-soaked Costa high life . |
| 28 | This was a puzzlement , and he was glad he had the soothing spectacle of Midnight Mass to distract him from it . |
| 29 | In his Collins lecture of 1984 he described the cultural authoritarianism of Samuel Johnson 's Dictionary of the English Language , whose acuity and precision of definition should not blind us to the fact that ‘ it accomplished the reduction of the language to the written and the written to the literary . ’ |
| 30 | In 1920 he joined the newly-formed Royal Signals ( TA ) , and then transferred to the Supplementary Reserve in 1925 . |