Example sentences of "[coord] in [adj] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a couple of fine LPs , among them ‘ The Most Of ’ , Edwards clicked more as a writer than a singer , and in 1966 he gave two songs to the Spencer Davis Group , ‘ Keep On Running ’ and ‘ Somebody Help Me ’ , both of which hit Number One . |
| 2 | In 1895 she left the mission to found the Esperance Working Girls ' Club with Mary Neal , and in 1897 she founded the Maison Esperance , a co-operative dressmaking business . |
| 3 | She died in 1894 , and in 1897 he married Bertha Ison . |
| 4 | She died in 1893 and in 1897 he married Ida , daughter of Judge Meadows White . |
| 5 | William had been involved with Clydesdales since his boyhood and in 1897 he bought two good mature stallions and a fine brood mare with which he established Dunure Mains as a stud . |
| 6 | A college for women had been Mrs Reid 's dream from childhood , and in 1849 she put up the money to found Bedford College , hoping for hundreds of applications but in fact receiving at first only a few dozen , including those of her own friends . |
| 7 | In 1845 , however , he recognized the privileges of the German barons in a two-volume collection of local laws , and in 1849 he subjected the Slavophile , Iurii Samarin , to twelve days in the Peter and Paul Fortress and a personal interrogation for inveighing against the German hegemony in privately circulated " Letters from Riga " . |
| 8 | In 1846 he sat on one of the tsar 's many secret committees on peasant affairs , in 1848 he chaired another , and in 1849 he succeeded his uncle , the Grand Duke Mikhail , as head of the empire 's military schools . |
| 9 | In 1800 he became assistant to the latter , who at the same time gave him a post in the Office of Works as labourer in trust at Carlton House and also employed him in connection with his work as surveyor of the ordnance ; his first recorded works — minor country-house commissions in Staffordshire , of 1803–5 — were designed in James 's office for execution by the Wyatt family building business ; and in 1805 he submitted designs for Downing College , Cambridge , after those by James had been severely criticized by Thomas Hope [ q.v. ] , perhaps in an attempt to salvage the commission for the family . |
| 10 | He evidently resented the fact that the name ‘ diesel ’ had come to be applied to virtually every type of oil engine , hot-bulb ( ignition ) as well as compression-ignition , and in 1923 he asked the Institution to declare that henceforth the word ‘ diesel ’ should only be used to describe oil engines operating on the compression-ignition principle , hot-bulb engines to be known as ‘ akroyds ’ . |
| 11 | In the 1860s Spence became interested in copper smelting , and in 1866 he set up a company in Gode to develop his ideas . |
| 12 | In 1988 it was selected from a session and in 1989 it won people over again when it was included on the LP . |
| 13 | The administration was always poor and in 1991 it became chaotic . |
| 14 | In 1286 he joined Edward in Gascony , after an embassy to the papal curia , and in 1289–90 he journeyed once again to the curia to discuss , inter alia , the granting of a papal dispensation for the marriage of Edward of Carnarvon , Edward 's son , to Margaret of Scotland , the Maid of Norway [ q.v. ] , and Edward 's projected crusade . |
| 15 | In 1966 , at the age of 28 , he was made a partner in the Glasgow office , and in 1974 he became joint senior partner of both Glasgow and Edinburgh with John Kirkpatrick ( later chairman of the International Accounting Standards Committee ) . |
| 16 | By 1925 it was down to 7 per cent and in 1971 it stood at around 4.1 per cent . |
| 17 | He did this by undertaking a tour giving literary lectures and talks on elocution and in 1909 he published " A Literary Tour of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland . " |
| 18 | The business eventually declined , and in 1886 he returned to private practice , in partnership with his brother B. E. R. Newlands . |
| 19 | In fact he enjoyed the commercial side of PR , especially after joining Alloa Brewery , and in 1979 he joined Grant Forrest , the advertising agency , as an account manager on its fledgling PR wing with just two clients , Barratt Scotland and Schlumberger ( Barratt is still with him ) . |
| 20 | Mr Hills , 55 on Thursday , was awarded a commendation in 1973 for showing initiative and bravery when dealing with a dangerous psychiatric patient , and in 1979 he won the police long service and good conduct medal . |
| 21 | While he was in Paris he had been encouraged by Émile Zola to write novels , and in 1891 he published Guilty Bonds , a melodramatic story of conspiracy in Russia ; this was banned in that country , but it was the first of over 130 novels and biographies concerned with murder , espionage , and the occult . |
| 22 | The Gold Coast was notable for the high mortality rate suffered by Europeans , and in 1891 he contracted black-water fever and was invalided home . |
| 23 | Lunn was later promoted to General Assistant and in 1891 he started to take geological photographs in the field . |
| 24 | In the 1580s the Turkey Company and the Venice Company were founded , and in 1592 they combined to form the Levant Company , which learned enough about the riches of the Indies for various members of it to organize the East India Company , which had about £68,000 trading capital for its first voyage and a charter granted on 31 December 1600 . |
| 25 | They were divorced and in 1931 he married Irene Ruth Marden , daughter of Oliver Hawkshaw , gentleman of independent means . |
| 26 | His early interest in international co-operation drew him to Geneva and in 1931 he joined the International Labour Office . |
| 27 | It is no secret that Keynes was a highly intuitive thinker who often changed his mind : in 1930 he defended the gold standard , which he had previously attacked , and in 1931 he abandoned the principle of free trade , which he had previously upheld . |
| 28 | In the mid-1680s Coxe began to acquire property in West New Jersey , and in 1687 he purchased the proprietary rights of the province from the heirs to Edward Byllynge . |
| 29 | The management of the Ben Franklin chain , though , was unimpressed by Walton 's suggestion , and in 1962 he left to open the first Wal-Mart Discount City at Rogers , Arkansas . |
| 30 | Mr Rafferty moved to Belfast and joined the Irish News in the 1950s and in 1962 he began work as a sub-editor with the Belfast Telegraph . |