Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made major contributions to the geology of Dalradian rocks along the Highland border between Callander and Loch Lomond and in the Cowal district of Argyllshire . |
| 2 | In his will , made as a parishioner of St Olave Jewry , London , dated 7 January , and proved 28 February 1633 , he made monetary bequests to his four daughters and two sons , allowed the use of his professional papers to his apprentices , and gave a two-volume book of statutes to ‘ my noble friend Sir William Paddy [ q.v. ] … to be by him put and given to the library of St John 's College in Oxford ’ . |
| 3 | He made annual visits to Spain and Portugal in connection with his business and he normally lived several months a year in London . |
| 4 | Waller 's research interests started in the emerging field of electro-physiology , in which he made useful contributions to the study of fatigue in muscle and the nature of cardiac potentials . |
| 5 | ROCK drummer Mitch Mitchell won substantial libel damages in the High Court yesterday after a book claimed he made racist comments to Jimi Hendrix when he played in his band , the Experience . |
| 6 | He made outstanding contributions to all branches of children 's surgery but his lifelong interest was the aetiology of malformations . |
| 7 | I 'm a boody man , ’ he made playful sallies to left and right while everybody pretended to back away , shouting and laughing . |
| 8 | Also in 1875 Townsend made his first tour to the Continent ; throughout his life he made regular visits to Europe , especially to northern Italy , where he developed a lifelong interest in architectural mosaics . |
| 9 | From there he made frequent visits to Jefferies ' Coate Farm and Reservoir , to well-off Townsend cousins in Clifton , and to the neighbouring Downs . |
| 10 | He made frantic signs to Angalo . |
| 11 | ‘ They were able to speak to each other on the phone — he made gurgling noises to her . |
| 12 | As dean of Winchester he was an active servant of James I. Between 1616 and 1621 he made repeated visits to Scotland on royal business , accompanying the king in 1617 , and attending the general assembly in Perth ( 1618 ) in support of the king 's ‘ Five Articles ’ of ceremonial reform . |
| 13 | His work was always informed by a strong historical sense , and he made distinguished contributions to the history of both logic and philosophy . |
| 14 | The Greenlys moved to Clevedon for some time , in which district he made valuable contributions to Pre-Cambrian , Palaeozoic , and Quaternary geology . |
| 15 | He gave parties at which a great deal of champagne was consumed ; he attended other parties ; he entertained young women to luncheon-parties in his rooms — women whose fashionable faces Mr Bullins recognised from society magazines such as the Tatler , which formed his own favourite bedtime reading . |
| 16 | He battered 43-year-old Jane to death with a bottle at their £275,000 weekend home at Middleton-on-Sea , Sussex . |
| 17 | He lent considerable sums to the crown , perhaps as much as £50,000 between 1373 and 1376 . |
| 18 | And last night top U.S. military commander General Colin Powell said he expected Western jets to be enforcing the zone within two weeks . |
| 19 | After 9 years in which he applied microbial biochemistry to industrial manufacturing problems , he returned , in 1929 , to academic work as professor of biochemistry at the London School of Hygiene , where he continued to identify the chemical constituents of fungi and discover their functions . |
| 20 | And Salsburg found that , when he applied statistical tests to the NCI data , between 3 and 70 per cent of the compounds either caused or protected against cancer , depending on the stringency of the decision rule used . |
| 21 | He applied cold poultices to the sufferer 's forehead , which sent him into a coma . |
| 22 | Three years later he returned to Manchester New College , and in 1888 he became assistant minister to Philip Wicksteed in Little Portland Street , London . |
| 23 | After occupying junior ministerial office from his first year in Parliament , he became Economic Secretary to the Treasury in 1955 . |
| 24 | In April 1908 he became financial secretary to the Treasury , and in October 1911 gained a place in the cabinet as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . |
| 25 | After a short period as a private tutor , he became private secretary to the Liberal industrialist MP , Sir John Brunner [ q.v . ] . |
| 26 | In 1947 he became private secretary to Hector McNeil [ q.v. ] , minister of state at the Foreign Office , and despite his drunkenness and unreliable behaviour he not only survived but was promoted . |
| 27 | He became special assistant to Syme for five years and was held in high esteem by his master and mentor . |
| 28 | He became scientific adviser to the firm of telegraph engineers founded by his father , in partnership with Josiah Latimer Clark [ q.v. ] , in about 1869 , working on the development of techniques for duplexing signals in submarine telegraph cables , and making precision measurements of resistance and capacity . |
| 29 | He retired in 1939 , but with the outbreak of war he became scientific adviser to the Iron and Steel Research Council and then entered the steel industry , becoming in 1943 director of research of Richard Thomas & Co . |
| 30 | Harold Wilson 's words are remembered today , 25 years after he led Labour back to power , from 13 wilderness years . |