Example sentences of "[num] he [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he entered the alkali business . |
| 2 | In April 1895 he discussed the construction of the Bat with Otto Lilienthal , the German hang-gliding pioneer , and learned a great deal about the practical problems of controlling hang-gliders in the air . |
| 3 | In 1876 he said the nationality problem in Eastern Europe was not ‘ worth the healthy bones of a Pomeranian musketeer ’ . |
| 4 | In 1540 he transformed the office of Wards , formed in 1503 , into the Court of Wards , to which was joined the office of Liveries in 1542 . |
| 5 | He was particularly interested in infectious diseases and public health , and in 1881 he took the Cambridge University diploma in public health . |
| 6 | In 1802 he joined the Marylebone Cricket Club at its Dorset Square venue . |
| 7 | In 1630 he entered the service of Richelieu , despite the difference in their religious convictions . |
| 8 | In 1801 he wrapped the plain and pleasing ashlar face around what little he decided to retain of the earlier house . |
| 9 | Late in 1867 he found the gate and the road . |
| 10 | Writing in Artificial Intelligence magazine in 1985 he said the AI community in NASA and beyond were arrogant in their refusal to examine ‘ anything more than a couple of centuries old . |
| 11 | 2 He delivers the side thrust kick to the chin , pushing the hips into the kick . |
| 12 | In Section 2 he rejects the suggestion , conveyed by the exclamation , ‘ Surely a similarity must strike us , or we should n't be moved to use the same word ’ , that some act must precede the act of using the word ; and in Sections 5 and 10 he talks about the ‘ mistake ’ labelled by the word ‘ to make ’ as it occurs in the question , ‘ What made you call this ‘ red ’ ? ’ ) |
| 13 | 2 He lifts the knee while turning , thrusting the hips into the kick . |
| 14 | 2 He throws the hips into the kick . |
| 15 | In 1902 he was also runner-up , but in 1903 he won the championship for the fourth time . |
| 16 | In 1879 he passed the examination for county inspector and was appointed to Donegal . |
| 17 | On Sept. 22 he dismissed the chiefs of the police and of the criminal investigations directorate Cerezo further claimed in early December that members of the ruling Arena party in El Salvador ( in particular Maj. Roberto d'Aubuisson , the founder of Arena ) were supplying arms to violent right-wing elements in Guatemala . |
| 18 | His map of Cheshire , begun in 1774 , must have been completed by assistants , for early in 1775 he entered the service of the margrave of Baden , leaving a wife with his considerable debts . |
| 19 | In 1894 he joined the Wilson Line in Hull as second mate of the SS Draco and three years later a chance meeting with the Norwegian explorer H. Borchgrevink , a passenger in his vessel , the Montebello , led to Colbeck 's joining the Southern Cross expedition ( 1898–1900 ) as magnetic observer , following an intensive course of instruction at Kew Observatory . |
| 20 | But he was not always a parliamentary loner : in 1586–7 he supported the clamour for Mary 's execution , and he also wanted to urge the queen to accept sovereignty of the Netherlands in the struggle against Spain . |
| 21 | So in March 1991 he negotiated the sale of the house for £283,000 , though the amount needed to redeem the mortgage was by then £358,587 . |
| 22 | One of the recent visitors to Giverny was Roy Lichtenstein , who in 1969 had used Monet 's Rouen and Haystack series as the basis for a series of lithographs. then in 1991 he used the water-lilies theme of the Nymphéas for a series of works employing a new technique , the decorative machine turnings made by abrading metal in shining whirls , which , while looking like water have the reflectiveness of stainless steel . |
| 23 | After a meeting with Yeltsin on Dec. 26 he withdrew the threat . |
| 24 | In 1695 he built the west tower on his local church at Frampton , in a mixture of classical and traditional taste , then he built Forston in 1698 , before rebuilding his own house , Frampton Court , in 1704 . |
| 25 | In 1828 he became the partner of his friend and younger rival , James Muspratt [ q.v. ] , who had emigrated to Lancashire in 1822 , in building a Leblanc-process soda works on the St Helens canal . |
| 26 | In 1892 he bought the Pall Mall Gazette , a Liberal evening daily newspaper which he turned into a Conservative organ . |
| 27 | After becoming a professor at Königsberg in 1892 he obtained the chair at Göttingen in 1895 , a position held until his retirement in 1930 . |
| 28 | In 1621 he criticized the Speaker , Sir Thomas Richardson [ q.v. ] , for being ‘ too courteous ’ to the Lords at his first conference , and he clashed with Sir Edward Coke [ q.v. ] over empowering a subcommittee to discuss the impeachment of Sir John Bennet [ q.v. ] with the Lords , because ‘ then the young lawyers shall be put with the judges ’ , the Lords ' assistants . |
| 29 | In 1929 he reached the pinnacle of educational success when he passed the agregation at the Ecole Normale Superieure in the company of Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir . |
| 30 | In 1929 he married the actress Elsa Lanchester , daughter of James Sullivan , an Irish worker in a black-lead factory , and Edith Lanchester , a Cambridge graduate and active speaker and member of the Social Democratic Federation . |