Example sentences of "[num] he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in 1876 he became a research assistant to P. G. Tait [ q.v. ] , professor of natural philosophy . |
| 2 | Mill Reef returned to Longchamp the following spring to notch up a ten-length victory in the Prix Ganay , but after a lacklustre display when beating Homeric a neck in the Coronation Cup at Epsom he did not race again : he was being prepared for a second Arc when on 30 August 1972 he fractured a foreleg on the gallops , and was retired to stud . |
| 3 | In March 1972 he made a £360 million offer for the Red Barrel brewer , winning control three months later . |
| 4 | In 1972 he opened a shop in the Kings Road , at first selling teddy-boy schmutter , much later , in premises renamed Sex , rubber and leather bondage clothing . |
| 5 | Charles McCall began life as a clerk to a firm of lawyers in Edinburgh , but in 1933 he won a scholarship to Edinburgh College of Art , where he studied under DM Sutherland and SJ Peploe . |
| 6 | In 1885 he became a founder-member of council of the Manchester Photographic Society , where he met some of the most notable pioneers of early photographic techniques , and in the same year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 7 | In 1881 he took a job at Hale Farm Nurseries ; then , not long after , in order to start experimenting with his ideas on design , accepted a partnership with a firm of contractors . |
| 8 | About 1881 he tried a change of policy by having some mapping done on the one-inch scale in order to speed up the surveying . |
| 9 | At the age of twenty-one he became a captain of his father 's ships and remained at sea until 1818 , acquiring a worldwide knowledge of shipping and navigation . |
| 10 | Parts I-IV consist of double-choral pieces for eight , but sometimes twelve , voices ; with Part V he began a systematization according to category , with motet-settings of Festlieder , and went on to produce three volumes — 746 pieces to 458 different texts — of straightforward four-part settings for congregational use plus a few organ ‘ variations ’ in VII ; in IX he again set the hymns of I-IV but for two or three voices and even contemplated doing them yet again ‘ motet-wise in the style of Lassus ’ , ‘ madrigal-wise in the style of Marenzio ’ , and per choros in the style of Victoria . |
| 11 | In 1789–90 he made a book of plans of the Earl of Eglinton 's estates in Ayrshire , one of the treasures of the Scottish Record Office . |
| 12 | His autobiography was published on September 28 and , on October 2 he gives a talk at the National Theatre . |
| 13 | About 1560 he became a Protestant , as Janequin and Certon never did , and made a four-part setting of the complete Marot-de Beze Psalter in lightly ornamented note-against-note counterpoint with the melodies generally in the highest part ( Paris , 1564 ) . |
| 14 | In 1903 he launched a paper , West African Mail ( later the African Mail ) , as a vehicle for his campaign , and in 1904 also founded the Congo Reform Association with ( Sir ) Roger Casement [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | In 1903 he addressed a conference in Liverpool where he made ‘ a Plea for a Worshipful Church ’ . |
| 16 | In 1728 he established a farm at Kingsessing near Philadelphia , with six acres sloping away to the river in the south-west for a garden and where horticultural work in due course supplanted his pursuit of agriculture . |
| 17 | In 1879 he became a Derby town councillor and in 1886 was made a JP for the borough . |
| 18 | In 1879 he won a mathematics scholarship to Hertford College , Oxford , and was awarded a second in mathematical moderations ( 1880 ) and a third class in mathematics ( 1882 ) . |
| 19 | In 1697 he became a director of the bank and served continuously ( with statutory intervals ) down to his death . |
| 20 | Around 1825 he took a post in Carlisle as manager of a small ironworks , and in 1832 he was appointed mill manager for Losh , Wilson , & Bell 's Walker Ironworks near Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 21 | In 1678 he established a workshop on the rue de Harlay , where his two sons , Jean aîné and Jacques le Romain , joined him in instrument-making . |
| 22 | In October 1991 he announced a £54M capital raising to support and complete rescue strategy . |
| 23 | Compaoré had earlier sought to appease opposition figures when on July 26 he brought a number of them into the transitional government . |
| 24 | In January 1660 he became a captain in the regiment ( formerly Fleetwood 's ) of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper ( later first Earl of Shaftesbury , q.v. ) , and the connection continued after the Restoration , when Lord Ashley ( as he had become ) was chancellor of the Exchequer , and Warcup , among other financial concessions , was a farmer of the excise in Wiltshire and Dorset . |
| 25 | In 1654 he led a squadron to Newfoundland , though a storm disabled his ship and forced him to turn back . |
| 26 | Before moving to London permanently in 1757 he produced A Plan of the River Nene , from Thrapston to Northampton , with the Mills and Locks necessary for the Navigation ( 1754 ) , and A Plan of the Road from Towcester in the County of Northampton , to Weston Gate in the County of Oxford ( 1756 ) . |
| 27 | In 1924 he got a chapter to himself in Harold Begbie 's The Conservative Mind , a best-selling effort by a popular journalist to identify a Tory tradition representing the best in English life . |
| 28 | In 1924 he became a fellow of King 's College , Cambridge ( only the second non-Kingsman to do so ) , and in 1926 a university lecturer in mathematics , a post he held until his death . |
| 29 | In 1924 he became a commander of the Legion of Honour . |
| 30 | When the late Shah 's father ( Reza Shah Pahlavi ) came to power in 1924 he began a programme of sponsorship aimed at elevating the Persian rug industry to levels of excellence that had not been seen since the Golden Age of the 16th and 17th centuries . |