Example sentences of "year he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Last year he ran a number of well known players very close , took Harry Russell to three sets at the Boat Club and beat Willie Noteman at Portrush . |
| 2 | Moreover for a year he shared a stage with one of the greatest and the best-loved English stage actors of the century . |
| 3 | In that year he married a Bristol woman and their only child , named Elizabeth after her mother , was born in 1811 . |
| 4 | Last year he reached a point when he knew he had to stop . |
| 5 | Later that year he suffered a breakdown of health following a severe attack of influenza . |
| 6 | In the same year he suffered a stroke , from which he slowly recovered ; he was able to resume work until he retired in 1867 . |
| 7 | But the fact that in this year he attended a party dressed as Dr Crippen suggests that there was a large element of conscious display and theatrical bravura in his creation of a character such as Harry . |
| 8 | Sir James Hanson 's Hanson Trust gave £82,000 to the cause the year he became a Lord . |
| 9 | Also during his retirement , in 1838 , Foulston published a volume of his designs , The Public Buildings erected in the West of England , as designed by J. Foulston , and in the same year he became a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects . |
| 10 | In September of the following year he made a trip to Furness Abbey to sketch , and recorded , ‘ I was treated in a more kind and liberal manner than I have been by any people in the North of Lancashire and Westmorland , by Mr. Atkinson , his mother and sisters ’ ! |
| 11 | Nietzsche 's capacity to stick to a plan , however , was no greater than before , and at or towards the end of the year he produced a spate of alternatives . |
| 12 | For 594 Fredegar notes a war between the Franks and the Bretons , and under the following year he mentions a victory over the Warni , who are probably to be equated with the Thuringians . |
| 13 | In the following year he published a volume of twenty coloured aquatint views of St Petersburg , and the reference in his will to jewellery presented to him by the emperor of Russia may be connected with these events . |
| 14 | In the same year he won a scholarship at Repton not far from Derby . |
| 15 | ‘ And the year he entrusted a document written in Catalan to Beatrix . |
| 16 | He specialises in the period between 1500 and 1675 and is also keen on art : last year he bought a Van Dyck from Althorp when the Spencers put it up for sale . |
| 17 | Mr John told me last year he paid a lot of money for all this and it 's still not bloody working ! |
| 18 | Earlier this year he caught a train North , groped his way to Shielfield and discovered that the match was fogged off . |