Example sentences of "[num] he [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1876 he took a similar position at the Blaenavon ironworks in Monmouthshire under the management of Edward Martin . |
| 2 | In 1876 he built a high water tower , topped for a time with a telescope . |
| 3 | In 1933 he suffered a complete ‘ moral and mental collapse ’ and departed the Colonial Service . |
| 4 | He was also a self-educated man , with a particular interest in astronomy , and in 1933 he discovered a white spot on the surface of Saturn . |
| 5 | By the age of twenty-one he had a managerial post in charge of fifteen people . |
| 6 | In 1801 he published a valuable pedagogical work , Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Piano Forte . |
| 7 | In 1962–63 he took a career-best 8 for 97 for NSW v Victoria at Sydney . |
| 8 | In 1867 he accepted a timely invitation to return to his former employer , and in the reassuring familiarity of his parents ' home in Bockhampton he was able to assess his career , temporarily rededicating himself to architecture while continuing to hope for success as a writer , if not of poetry , of popular novels . |
| 9 | In 167 he celebrated a three-day triumph . |
| 10 | In the summer of 1991 he proposed a new party programme which , in effect , would have brought it much closer into line with a social democratic party , competing with others on Western lines . |
| 11 | In 1892 he formed a limited liability company to take over his business.The memorandum of association of the new company was signed by Salomon , his wife and his five children , each signatory being issued with one share . |
| 12 | On June 10 he detailed a tortuous series of corrupt dealings between Papandreou and himself allegedly dating back to a threat made in 1985 by Papandreou 's Pasok party to nationalize the Bank of Crete . |
| 13 | With the introduction of the Model Engineer and Amateur Electrician magazine in 1898 he became a regular contributor and was a founder-member of the Society of Model Engineers . |
| 14 | In 1898 he became a diocesan lay reader . |
| 15 | In October 1718 he published a long mock-heroic poem , The Chevalier de St. George . |
| 16 | In 1888 he joined a Wild West circus and toured the United States for about two years , then sailed to England and established a music-hall act as a sharpshooter . |
| 17 | In 1888 he published a definitive edition of his own texts in Hymns Original and Translated . |
| 18 | In 1333 he made a rare journey abroad to deliver the new archbishop , John Stratford , his pallium . |
| 19 | In 1984 he married a French woman , and the following year travelled to France to try his hand at the colour photography which seemed so popular in European magazines . |
| 20 | He had become the representative voice of the nation under threat , and in the early months of 1940 he wrote a patriotic poem , " Defence of the Islands " , to accompany an exhibition of British war photographs at the New York World 's Fair . |
| 21 | Lieutenant Roger Courtney joined No. 8 Commando at the same time as Stirling , and during the training period in the latter part of 1940 he organized a small group to train in the Scottish lochs with folding canoes . |
| 22 | In September 1692 he produced a Whiggish Jacobite tract in which he rehearsed all the traditional charges against William ( adding to the list the recent massacre at Glencoe ) , and argued that " If it was to preserve our Liberties from the insults of King James , we placed the Prince upon the Throne , we have certainly either mistaken the Disease or the Cure " . |
| 23 | But his gloomy prognostications were also of a more general kind , and in January 1946 he described a public world which was becoming more " incredible " and a private world which was more " intolerable " . |
| 24 | In 1946 he undertook a triple portrait of Bobby , Oska and Eric Verrico ( plate 13 ) from a drawing now in the Victoria and Albert Museum . |
| 25 | He was already feeling ill by Christmas , but nevertheless he was writing extraordinarily rapidly and by 1 January 1941 he sent a first draft of the poem , tentatively entitled " Dry Salvages " , to John Hayward . |
| 26 | His promotion through the army ranks had been rapid and by 350 he commanded a select corps of Ioviani and Herculiani , the new type of legion earlier created by Diocletian . |
| 27 | In 1859 he took a leading part in the promotion of the Boiler Insurance and Steam Power Company , becoming chairman in 1865 . |
| 28 | The same year he resigned from teaching and , helped by influential friends made while collecting material for his museums , undertook a variety of part-time jobs and published his first books , until in 1862 he became a civil servant on the staff of the India Museum , where he remained until 1880 . |
| 29 | In 1862 he won a minor scholarship to Trinity College , Cambridge , and graduated third wrangler in 1866 . |
| 30 | But at this high point in his career his health began to fail under the heavy pressures , and in 1917 he suffered a major breakdown . |