Example sentences of "[num] he [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , however , Origen himself came to write a commentary on Matthew 19 : 12 he strenuously opposed a literal exegesis . |
| 2 | Thereafter during the 1820s and 1830s he greatly expanded the firm 's architectural side — following his father 's death in 1827 he devoted his time entirely to architecture , leaving the management of the marble works to his younger brother Francis — and established a substantial practice in the north-west and the adjacent parts of Yorkshire . |
| 3 | In December 1991 he often visited a nearby farm landing strip and talked to microlight owners and examined their aircraft . |
| 4 | In February 1929 he actually accused the majority of the Central Committee of creating a ‘ military-feudal exploitation of the peasantry ’ . |
| 5 | In 1762 he even secured a royal edict which compelled the clergy to contribute a fifth of their income to charitable purposes , though this soon had to be withdrawn . |
| 6 | During this time Alcock had begun the long process of memorising the night sky ; by 1932 he already knew the position of most stars that can be seen by the naked eye . |
| 7 | In 1564 he also concluded an agreement with the Augsburg firm of Haug , Langnauer & Co. to finance the enterprise with himself as manager , and to invite English participation . |
| 8 | In late 1909 he also published a pamphlet , The One Life . |
| 9 | In World War II he immediately joined the Ministry of Supply and went to the chemical defence experimental station in Porton , near Salisbury . |
| 10 | For in 1918 he just missed a scholarship to Winchester College ; and in those days the scholarship at Winchester was regarded as the crown for the cleverest boys in England . |
| 11 | In August 1648 he suppressed Royalist activity in the area and in August 1651 he firmly rebutted the entreaties of Charles Stuart and his army . |
| 12 | On Jan. 16 he called again for an intensification of the armed struggle , but on Jan. 18 he reportedly told the executive council meeting that currently " we do not have the capacity within our country to intensify the armed struggle in any meaningful way " , that the ANC must " begin without delay to prepare our negotiating position " , and that in the event of its being unbanned it would have to decide whether to operate only as a legal movement or , alternatively , to maintain underground units . |
| 13 | But when the rising began on 24 April 1916 he promptly joined the rebel garrison in Jacobs ' factory . |
| 14 | When he was sacked from the manager 's job at Preston in 1981 he immediately told the press . |
| 15 | Indeed , at Sheffield in May 1930 he almost erected the contrary view into a principle : |
| 16 | He also experimented with lighter-than-air flight : he wrote three papers on airships in the Philosophical Magazine ( February 1816–July 1817 ) of Alexander Tilloch [ q.v. ] , and in 1820 he successfully flew a model airship at Brompton . |
| 17 | In 1949 he narrowly escaped the first of three attempts on his life . |
| 18 | ‘ I would put Schmeichel in that group and at 27 he still has a lot of time to improve . ’ |
| 19 | The Black Boy though now a public house was at one time also a farm for when Robert Hearnden ran the public house in 1840 he also farmed a considerable amount of land , where the large pit is now situated and down into the village . |
| 20 | In 1961 he finally pulled a deal together with the Ford Motor Co and AC Cars Ltd , and early in 1962 the Cobra was born . |
| 21 | After the Italian surrender in the summer of 1943 he privately reckoned the chances of a similar German collapse at six to four against ; and he recognised , partly under pressure from Attlee and others on the Labour side , that he ought to appoint a senior Minister to co-ordinate the planning of reconstruction . |
| 22 | In July 1943 he publicly accepted the commitment to legislate by publishing the White Paper , Educational Reconstruction . |
| 23 | In 1659 he similarly petitioned the recalled Rump Parliament to remember ‘ The Good Old Cause ’ , and initiate reform ; and in June 1660 he addressed a ‘ warning ’ to the newly restored Charles II , explaining that like King David he must govern the faithful justly . |
| 24 | Subsequently Sidonius seems to have retired from the limelight until the fall of Majorian , and the elevation of Anthemius , for whose first consulship in 468 he also delivered a panegyric . |
| 25 | The great propagandist for agricultural capitalism naturally fav-oured high cereal prices , but in 1771 he also made the link with high wages , insisting that " great earnings " caused many workers to offer only four or five days ' labour . |
| 26 | Having got to within two of his fifty he slightly misjudged the next short one from Thommo , and had to jerk his head rapidly out of the line of the ball . |
| 27 | When Mehmed the Conqueror took the city of Byzantium in 1453 he personally invested the new patriarch , Gennadios II . |
| 28 | In 1880 he successfully moved the Buckland yew , with a documented age of 800 years . |
| 29 | On 3 September 1939 he still had no criminal record , though his name occurred with some frequency in the secret reports of the Special Branch and M15 . |
| 30 | For the remainder of his until his death in June 1989 he nevertheless remained an active and devoted supporter . |