Example sentences of "[adj] he served [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1888 he served on the new Cumberland county council , opposing the construction of roads over Lakeland passes , reducing mining pollution , and organizing the proper signposting of footpaths . |
| 2 | During World War II he served in the Royal Artillery and the Army Bureau of Current Affairs , the latter foreshadowing his immediately postwar position as head of the department for the exchange of information in Unesco , where he worked towards universal bibliographical control . |
| 3 | Between September 1915 and November 1918 he served in the 21st , 39th , and 47th divisions of the Royal Engineers in France and Belgium , and fought in the battle of Pilckem ridge in 1917 . |
| 4 | In World War I he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as temporary captain in charge of the base laboratory at Salonika ( 1916 ) , and later in Northern Ireland as bacteriologist ( 1918 ) . |
| 5 | From 1942 to 1945 he served in the Royal Air Force , first as a general-duties medical officer in Bomber Command , then as a neuropsychiatry specialist , when he was much influenced by ( Sir ) Charles Symonds [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | Between 1643 and 1645 he served in the parliamentary army as chaplain to Colonel Valentine Walton [ q.v. ] , governor of King 's Lynn . |