Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In this he achieved a remarkable fluency without the benefit of grammar or vocabulary .
2 Over this he had a black mackintosh ; there were five belts strapped around his waist and a sort of grey linen nappy attached to the back of his trousers .
3 When he wondered this he felt a deep sadness .
4 For this he fought a hard ten-round contest .
5 For this he received a two-match ban .
6 Yet in spite of this he remained a convinced Catholic , regarding Voltaire and the Encyclopédie as profoundly dangerous .
7 While doing this he gave a wonderful imitation of his coal merchant and his wife .
8 In 1876 he took a similar position at the Blaenavon ironworks in Monmouthshire under the management of Edward Martin .
9 In 1876 he built a high water tower , topped for a time with a telescope .
10 In 1933 he suffered a complete ‘ moral and mental collapse ’ and departed the Colonial Service .
11 He was also a self-educated man , with a particular interest in astronomy , and in 1933 he discovered a white spot on the surface of Saturn .
12 Mr Moore had made it clear he wanted a sterner system .
13 By the age of twenty-one he had a managerial post in charge of fifteen people .
14 In 1801 he published a valuable pedagogical work , Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Piano Forte .
15 In 1962–63 he took a career-best 8 for 97 for NSW v Victoria at Sydney .
16 In 1867 he accepted a timely invitation to return to his former employer , and in the reassuring familiarity of his parents ' home in Bockhampton he was able to assess his career , temporarily rededicating himself to architecture while continuing to hope for success as a writer , if not of poetry , of popular novels .
17 In 167 he celebrated a three-day triumph .
18 In the summer of 1991 he proposed a new party programme which , in effect , would have brought it much closer into line with a social democratic party , competing with others on Western lines .
19 In 1892 he formed a limited liability company to take over his business.The memorandum of association of the new company was signed by Salomon , his wife and his five children , each signatory being issued with one share .
20 On June 10 he detailed a tortuous series of corrupt dealings between Papandreou and himself allegedly dating back to a threat made in 1985 by Papandreou 's Pasok party to nationalize the Bank of Crete .
21 With the introduction of the Model Engineer and Amateur Electrician magazine in 1898 he became a regular contributor and was a founder-member of the Society of Model Engineers .
22 In 1898 he became a diocesan lay reader .
23 In October 1718 he published a long mock-heroic poem , The Chevalier de St. George .
24 In 1888 he joined a Wild West circus and toured the United States for about two years , then sailed to England and established a music-hall act as a sharpshooter .
25 In 1888 he published a definitive edition of his own texts in Hymns Original and Translated .
26 In 1333 he made a rare journey abroad to deliver the new archbishop , John Stratford , his pallium .
27 Supporting the Chancellor 's decision not to raise the basic rate of income tax , he said : ‘ Despite the size of the PSBR , I am glad he introduced a neutral Budget .
28 In 1984 he married a French woman , and the following year travelled to France to try his hand at the colour photography which seemed so popular in European magazines .
29 He had become the representative voice of the nation under threat , and in the early months of 1940 he wrote a patriotic poem , " Defence of the Islands " , to accompany an exhibition of British war photographs at the New York World 's Fair .
30 Lieutenant Roger Courtney joined No. 8 Commando at the same time as Stirling , and during the training period in the latter part of 1940 he organized a small group to train in the Scottish lochs with folding canoes .
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