Example sentences of "[prep] [num] he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During 1701–2 he added his Observations Concerning the Seates in Myddle and the Familyes to which they Belong , in which he systematically recorded the personal histories of each family in the parish . |
| 2 | During England 's tour of 1989–90 he celebrated his hundredth Test by scoring his eighteenth century , passing 7,000 runs in the process , and at the end of the series his total stood at 7,134 at an average of 46 . |
| 3 | At the age of twenty-one he joined his father 's lace business , and in the following year ( 1881 ) he married Annie Maria Winlaw , the daughter of a baker , with whom he had four daughters and three sons . |
| 4 | In the summer of 1888 he took his family on holiday to Bournemouth and there died of a heart attack , 30 August 1888 , frustrating his desire to retire to Kirchhosbach when his children 's education was complete . |
| 5 | At the age of twenty-eight he established his own printing business . |
| 6 | So in the spring of 1904 he left his homeland , never to return . |
| 7 | But sleep did n't come and round about half past three he realised it was n't going to come . |
| 8 | Wordsworth worked from observation — ‘ The incident occurred in the village of Holford , close by Alfoxden ’ , — but in a letter of 1836 he makes it clear that it was a friend who actually saw the man . |
| 9 | At the age of 17 he found himself manning an anti-aircraft gun aboard the light cruiser , HMS Scylla . |
| 10 | During the revolutions of 1848 he used his seemingly impregnable position to repress rebellion in Romania , to restore Habsburg control in Hungary , and to prevent constitutional change in Germany . |
| 11 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 12 | In the early months of 1830 he broadened his vision with the establishment of the National Association of United Trades for the Protection of Labour ( NAPL ) and during the next four years he was at the centre of the many radical and union initiatives that were such a notable feature of the period . |
| 13 | When Jeremy Bentham , the radical jurist , philosopher and founder of University College , London , died in 1832 at the age of eighty-four he bequeathed his body to Dr Southwood Smith , an anatomist and author of Uses of the Dead to the Living , in which it was suggested that the difficulties experienced by medical schools in acquiring bodies for dissection could be alleviated if people chose to bequeath their bodies to them . |
| 14 | He opted for the latter and at the end of 1989 he launched his debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ which sold very well , got a lot of radio play , and , most important of all , it introduced the songs he had been composing and singing at concerts to a wider public . |
| 15 | In 1869 he sold his business and began preaching throughout Britain . |
| 16 | In 1869 he married his cousin , Maria Sarah ( died 1910 ) , daughter of Gordon Forbes of Ham Common . |
| 17 | In 1934 he made his Warwickshire debut , and quickly caught the eye as a hard-hitting middle-order batsman . |
| 18 | In 1635 he turned his attention to the internal posts . |
| 19 | In 1971 he thought he could help his brother in his illness by writing about their childhood . |
| 20 | In 1850 he resigned his curatorship to take up the post of mineral surveyor for New South Wales , an appointment that provoked the hostility of W. B. Clarke [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | In 1829 he produced his first coloured print , ‘ Butterflies ’ , and achieved popular acclaim in 1834 with the coloured plates for Feathered Tribes of the British Islands by Robert Mudie [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | When he returned he joined the local carpenters ' union , and in 1861 he persuaded his Sheffield union to become part of the newly established Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners ( ASCJ ) . |
| 23 | In 1893 he extended his theatrical pursuits well beyond dance arranging when he became producer of the summer season show at the Palace Theatre , Isle of Man . |
| 24 | The geographers were , however , never far from his thoughts , and in 1893 he produced his admirable Selections from Strabo , still the most sympathetic introduction to Strabo , to be followed in 1897 by A History of Ancient Geography , which remains one of the best , if not the best , handbook on both ancient geography and geographical writers , Greek and Latin , down to the end of the western Empire . |
| 25 | In 1925 he published My Reminiscences , a short autobiographical account of his sporting career , which gives little information about his personal life . |
| 26 | In 1808 he received his last assignment when he went to Sweden as minister . |
| 27 | In 1885 he obtained his doctorate with at thesis on the theory of invariants . |
| 28 | In 330 he inaugurated his new eastern capital , the ‘ city of Constantine ’ at Byzantium on the Bosphorus , planned as a ‘ New Rome ’ . |
| 29 | In 1802 he joined his elder brother Daniel in founding a drapery business at 3 North Street , Brighton , where he drew and published ‘ A New and Correct Plan of Brighthelmstone ’ . |
| 30 | In 1881 he married his first cousin , Eliza , daughter of Franklin Stanley Cripps , a small shopkeeper in Wisbech . |