Example sentences of "[num] he [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | For instance , when Petrarch met the Emperor Charles IV at Mantua in 1354 he gave him some Roman coins with the words , ‘ Look , Caesar , on those whom you have succeeded ; look on those you should strive to emulate . ’ |
3 | In 1305 he found it expedient to issue an Ordinance of the Forest recognizing the disafforestments already carried out , but he declared that the inhabitants of such districts had forfeited their rights of common within the forest , and that the royal demesne should be kept in statu quo . |
4 | President Borja ended months of hostility between the government and the Quechua , Achuar and Shiwiar tribes , representing 148 communities and an estimated 20,000 indigenous people , when on May 13 he granted them legal title to more than 3,000,000 acres of homelands in the eastern province of Pastaza . |
5 | ‘ I remember when in 1987 he took us all to a castle near Como , ’ says Adriano Galliani , Milan 's managing director . |
6 | When Richard Earl of Cornwall was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1257 he found it useful to have cameos and intaglios dating from Classical antiquity inserted in his crown as well as precious stones ( fig.36 ) . |
7 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
8 | Because , now Lyndsey joined it and he , he said like when he was eighteen he knew it all , and he says you were watching men of twenty who 'd just joined at training |
9 | In 1854 he felt it desirable to acquire a source of good Yorkshire iron for the Airedale foundry and established the Monk Bridge ironworks nearby , which was managed by his sons , Frederick William and James ( later first Baron Airedale , q.v. ) , the former having previously been principal locomotive designer at Airedale . |