Example sentences of "in [adj] year he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In eight years he built his television services company , Carlton Communications , to a value of £1 billion . |
| 2 | In that year he extended his syllabus by adding architecture , magnetics , and astronomy to the standard topics of mechanics , hydrostatics , pneumatics , and optics . |
| 3 | In that year he produced an outpouring of anti-royalist cartoons , with twenty-six lampoons of royalty being etched in all ( Hill , 1965 : 44 ) . |
| 4 | In that year he passed into the service of Richard de Clare , seventh Earl of Gloucester [ q.v. ] , as his steward and went round the earl 's estates hearing complaints against the earl 's officials . |
| 5 | Returning to El Salvador in that year he merged the Nationalis Revolutionary Movement ( MNR , founded by Ungo in the mid-1960s ) into the Democratic Convergence coalition , standing as its presidential candidate in March 1989 [ see p. 36520 ] . |
| 6 | Also in that year he formed the Stamford Brazenose Society and at their first meeting they discussed astronomy and the latitude of Stamford , lunar maps , a remarkable wasps ' nest and a ‘ stone as big as a walnut , taken from out of the bladder of a little Dutch dog ’ . |
| 7 | In that year he succeeded Jean Ludet as ‘ Basse de Hautbois et taille de violon ’ ; Ludet had assumed that position on 10 April 1682 at the retirement of Michel Rousselet ( Arch . |
| 8 | His first marriage , in 1927 , to the operetta singer , Carlotta Vanconti , was unsuccessful and led to protracted divorce proceedings , which were not finalized until 1936 ; in that year he married his second wife , the English stage and film actress , Diana Napier , and settled in England . |
| 9 | In that year he married a Bristol woman and their only child , named Elizabeth after her mother , was born in 1811 . |
| 10 | Where or with whom James received his training is not known , but by 1783 he was established in London ; and in that year he announced himself by publishing a pamphlet on A Method of Constructing Vapour Baths , and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy . |
| 11 | In that year he began campaigning against the brutal system of forced labour employed by Leopold II , king of the Belgians , as absolute personal ruler of the Congo Free State , even though this forced him to leave Elder Dempster , where he had become head of the Congo department . |
| 12 | In that year he became GCMG . |
| 13 | In that year he received the title of Captain and Admiral-General and became Stadtholder of all the provinces . |
| 14 | Later in that year he had taught for seven weeks in the school ( a replacement master could not start immediately ) and had been paid £7 . |
| 15 | Until 1892 Townsend 's practice was made up of minor domestic and ecclesiastical work , but in that year he won the competition for the design of the Bishopsgate Institute , the first of the three outstanding public buildings that were to make his reputation . |
| 16 | In that year he founded the Humanitarian League which became a channel for the promotion of his ideas . |
| 17 | By 1820 , not only did he own Freames , but he was apparently also the owner of neighbouring Pitts Mill , for in that year he leased both to Nathaniel Samuel Marling . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But there was also a sense in which he despised fame even as he obtained it , and when in this year he described Mark Twain as a man who wanted success or reputation and yet at the same time " resented their violation of his integrity " , there can be little doubt that once again he was expressing his own feelings through the agency of another 's . |
| 20 | He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations . |
| 21 | In these years he published on American history and established his own private press , the Guyon House Press , which , however , came to an end in the air raids of December 1940 . |
| 22 | In these years he remembered , too , his early concern with the city , recording his debts to Thomson and Davidson . |
| 23 | In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze ‘ so as to avoid making an invidious distinction ’ . |
| 24 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 25 | In later years he drifted away from his original Liberalism and his later Labour ties , and in 1910–11 served as a Conservative nominee as alderman on the London county council . |
| 26 | In later years he thought that twice in his life , and twice only , he seriously wondered whether Frank was right , and he wrong , about religion . |
| 27 | At Dulwich and Oxford University he was an excellent athlete and Rugby Union Player , while in later years he became a good club cricketer and a member of I Zingari . |
| 28 | Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time . |
| 29 | In later years he turned to golf and became one of the most successful amateur players in the history of the sport in Canada . |
| 30 | In later years he rose to the position of shipping manager and had about four small steamers and a score of sailing barges to supervise . |