Example sentences of "[adj] he take [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1876 he took a similar position at the Blaenavon ironworks in Monmouthshire under the management of Edward Martin . |
2 | In 1962–63 he took a career-best 8 for 97 for NSW v Victoria at Sydney . |
3 | If it was unavailable he took the dry and mixed that with sugar to achieve the same effect . |
4 | In 1859 he took a leading part in the promotion of the Boiler Insurance and Steam Power Company , becoming chairman in 1865 . |
5 | It was to be the last triumph Chapman was to see at Elland Road , for in the summer of 1916 he took a managerial job at a munitions factory at Barnbow , near Leeds . |
6 | In January 1978 he took an elaborate escape route with his family to Britain , as recounted in the 1987 film Cry Freedom , in which Steve Biko 's story was also told . |
7 | At first he took an exuberant delight in the books and in embellishing them with fantastic quasi-scientific detail , for , after the slapstick of his first book with its visit to the comic African court of the Jolliginki where the black Prince Bumpo yearns to be white , the tone is increasingly sophisticated and inventive . |
8 | He it was who inaugurated Continental excursions , for in 1925 he took a dozen boys to Bruges for eight days on an educational visit . |
9 | In 1901 he took a good second-class BA in English , French , and Irish , won an exhibition , and was called to the bar , having studied for a BL at Trinity College , Dublin , and the King 's Inns . |
10 | In 792 he took a new wife , Aelfflaed ( ASC D , s.a. 792 ) , daughter of Offa , king of the Mercians , marrying her at Catterick where his own parents had been married . |
11 | When he started at the NHS in Scotland in 1989 he took the same approach . |
12 | In 1846–7 he took a leading part in the foundation of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , and in 1848 he was elected a member of council . |
13 | Louis the Pious seemed to have the situation firmly under control when in the autumn of 829 he took the six-year old Charles to make a kind of joyeuse entrée into his intended realm . |
14 | In 1910 he took the first division examination for the Civil Service and secured a place in the Home Office , which he joined in 1911 . |
15 | In 1545 he was one of those appointed to devise new means of tackling the problem and in the 1550s he took a leading part in drawing up constitutions for the city 's new or refounded hospitals . |
16 | Together with Aymer de Valence , Earl of Pembroke [ q.v. ] ( often his partner in these years ) , he led an expedition to the north in 1315 ; in 1316 he took a major role in the suppression of the Welsh rising of Llywelyn ab Rhys ( Llewelyn Bren ) [ q.v. ] and of the revolt at Bristol ; and in the same year he was among the committee of bishops and magnates appointed to reform the royal household . |