Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Association with the cloth trade was a necessary step towards getting to the top in Coventry , and when wealthy baker Thomas Astelen became mayor in 1529 he was described as a clothier . |
| 2 | When Elizabeth I visited Rochester in 1573 she was entertained by Watts , and when he expressed regret that he had not better accommodation to offer her she replied , ‘ Satis ’ ( Lat. ‘ enough , satisfactory ’ ) , by which name the house was ever afterwards known . |
| 3 | When Franz Gall , phrenology 's founding father and Spurzheim 's teacher in Vienna , visited England in 1823 he brought with him a selection of some 3000 skulls , plus drawings of the great men of the past . |
| 4 | He so impressed Kolbe that when the great German chemist , A. W. von Hofmann , professor at the Royal College of Chemistry in London , visited Marburg in 1858 he recommended Griess for a position in Hofmann 's laboratory . |
| 5 | His ecumenical spirit was such that when two Spanish vessels visited Sydney in 1793 he ‘ outdid himself in his sociable gestures , particularly toward our chaplain fathers approaching them with a kindness and humility and a simplicity that was truly evangelical ’ ( The Spanish at Port Jackson , Australian Documentary Facsimile Society , 1967 ) . |
| 6 | For instance when he visited Manchester in 1814 he wrote 9th September — an exceedingly pleasant ride all the way from Leicester to Manchester … we found my poor mother ( actually his step-mother ) surprisingly well for a person of 80 — dined at Brother 's and drank tea with my mother and Aunt Weston ’ , and on ‘ Sunday , I went to my mother 's and walked back with Aunt Evans to my brother 's , she walked wonderfully for a person of 82½ — drank tea again at my mother 's . |
| 7 | When Flora Tristan , the French feminist and socialist , visited London in 1839 she noted not just the extent of prostitution but the complex ritualization of male debauchery . |
| 8 | ‘ American blues artists did n't tour Australia back then ; it was only when I visited London in 1972 I saw BB King — that justtook me apart . |
| 9 | From 1922 until it ceased publication in 1951 he edited Y Llenor , the highly successful Welsh quarterly journal , to which many of the leading Welsh writers of the period frequently contributed . |
| 10 | When I joined CCG in 1982 it was to provide services during the construction phase of the South Morecambe Terminal . |
| 11 | Similarly , when I joined AIB in 1955 I had already flown automatic coupled approaches for some months on scheduled passenger services in the Convair 340 with the auto-pilot coupled to the instrument landing system . |
| 12 | Oswiu died on 15 February 670 , according to Bede ( HE IV , 5 ) , reckoning a reign of twenty-eight years ( HE 111 , 14 ) from an accession in 642 , but if Oswiu became king in 643 he would have died in 671 ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.3 ) . |
| 13 | When BNB began publication in 1950 it relied upon the fourteenth edition of DC . |
| 14 | His critics agreed in their analysis : to the Earl of Rosebery who heard Spurgeon in 1873 he was the ‘ apostle of the grocers ’ , echoing George Eliot 's view that he had ‘ the most superficial grocer 's back-parlour view of Calvinistic Christianity ’ . |
| 15 | When he seized power in 1483 he did so not from outside the prevailing political structure but from its heart . |
| 16 | When he seized power in 1483 he did so not from outside the prevailing political structure but from its heart . |
| 17 | From the day he seized power in 1911 he thought of nothing but his own amusement and he was frequently absent from Addis Ababa , which he detested , for months on end . |
| 18 | However , despite being framed as a negative provision , the House of Lords held that the clause was unenforceable as it lacked certainty in that it was not for a fixed period of duration . |
| 19 | When Lord Rosebery toured America in 1873 he went to Plymouth Church and was ‘ greatly disappointed ’ . |
| 20 | When I left university in 1964 I went to live in Hackney in North East London . |
| 21 | By the time he left Liverpool in 1873 he had been appointed consulting and superintending engineer to a number of shipping companies , including the Flower Line , the Castle Line , and the Eastern Telegraph Company . |
| 22 | When he left Serbia in 1813 he joined the South Slav community in Vienna , where he came to the notice of the imperial censor for Slavonic languages as a result of an article he wrote for the newspaper Srpske Novine ( Serbian News ) . |
| 23 | When she left school in 1927 she had n't gone into the sheds . |