Example sentences of "in [num] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot had known Lawrence 's work for some time , but in 1931–2 he had grown particularly interested in that writer , whose ‘ travels to more primitive lands ’ and use of Mexican divinities in The Plumed Serpent were physical embodiment of Eliot 's anthropological reading and a likely reason for that title , After Strange Gods . |
| 2 | Although this was an extremely delicate operation for Nizan to perform , given that in 1934 he had carried out the rather complex act of ideological rehabilitation designed to demonstrate that Gide 's intellectual itinerary was such as to lead him inevitably to a commitment to communism , he none the less succeeded in combining professional respect for Gide 's qualities as a writer with penetrating criticism of what he considered to be Gide 's superficial analysis and hasty dismissal of the Soviet state . |
| 3 | By the peace of Paris , the inhabitants of ‘ Gascony beyond the Garonne ’ had become arrière-vassaux of Louis IX , although in 1224 they had refused to transfer their ultimate allegiance to the king of France . |
| 4 | In the next few years all of England 's maritime energies were concentrated on resisting Philip of Spain 's attempt at invasion , and by the time one of Raleigh 's associates was able to visit the colony again in 1590 it had disappeared . |
| 5 | In 1756 he had opened his poem On the Goodness of the Supreme Being with an invocation to Orpheus ( the Gentiles ' David ) which beseeches him for inspiration for his great religious theme : |
| 6 | In 1891 he began making plans for a road and in 1893 he commenced work . |
| 7 | Lunn was later promoted to General Assistant and in 1891 he started to take geological photographs in the field . |
| 8 | In 2.3 we have discussed the problems for the discourse analyst in specifying what aspects of the apparently illimitable features of context are to be taken into account in the interpretation of discourse . |
| 9 | In 1838 he had written his only novel , Malvagna , or the Evil Eye , a romantic work set in Sicily , but it did not attract public attention . |
| 10 | In 1838 he had made an important statement of evidence before the select committee on workmen 's combinations . |
| 11 | In 1943 he managed to leave Holland and travelled across France to Spain and thence to England . |
| 12 | But here , too , there were soon difficulties and in 1943 he resigned to become scientific adviser to the United States 8th Army Air Force in Great Britain . |
| 13 | In 1796 he began to replace his father 's classical mansion , which he detested , with a grandiose creation , Fonthill Abbey ( Fig. 5 ) , whose tower was intended to rival his neighbour , Salisbury Cathedral . |
| 14 | In 1948 she had opened almost identical telegrams . |
| 15 | If , as in 2.7.1 we have found |
| 16 | The justices left intact a ruling by the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals , which had held that the US Congress had acted properly when in 1986 it had prohibited individuals from possessing or transferring machine guns . |
| 17 | After qualifying in 1986 he decided to spend a couple of years working outside the profession to gain experience in merchant banking or venture capital . |
| 18 | Back in Scotland , in 1712 he attempted to extend his dominions , which stretched from Dumfries to the braes of Glenapp in south-west Ayrshire , into the heart of the latter county ; however , his troops were defeated at Newton of Ayr by ‘ a powerful body of Tinkers from Argyll and Dumbarton ’ . |
| 19 | In 1794 she began learning Arabic and Persian from her brother 's oriental dictionary ; in 1796 she studied Hebrew from a Bible belonging to Henrietta Bowdler 's mother . |
| 20 | He had been so moved by reading Political Justice that in 1794 he had decided to found a Godwinian state in a remote part of America . |
| 21 | The antisemitism in Vienna made his appointment to a university professorship difficult , but as he had married when he had returned from Paris in 1886 he needed to make a living . |
| 22 | In 1935 they had to leave altogether . |
| 23 | In 1935 he had formed a group , the International African Friends of Ethiopia , to oppose the fascist aggression of Mussolini and with the help of his good friend , George Padmore , he later organised the International African Service Bureau ( I.A.S.B. ) , whose journal , ‘ International African Opinion ’ , he edited . |
| 24 | In 1935 he helped to form the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company , and thus facilitated the development of the Hurricane aircraft which fought in the Battle of Britain ( 1940 ) . |
| 25 | In 1980 I got chatting to Stan Francourt , the caddie who was with me when I had the accident in 1973 . |
| 26 | In 1980 she stopped attending board meetings , which she considered a pantomime ; those things which she really cared about she managed to achieve quietly away from the meeting , in discussions with Phil Morris or Deborah James . |
| 27 | But in 1925 he did overthrow the Cadgers. he had considered creating a republic , but he was persuaded many of the leading clergy that the monarchy should be preserved . |
| 28 | Crossing the Jotunheim in 1872 he had seen Störe Skagastölstind , the Matterhorn of the northern Alps , and resolved to make its first ascent . |
| 29 | The latest medical theories suggest that Mozart 's last illness had its roots in the various serious infections he had suffered as a child : on the early trip to Paris and London he had contracted rheumatic fever , tonsillitis. and typhoid fever ; in 1167 he had caught smallpox ; and in Italy he seems to have had bronchitis and yellow jaundice . |
| 30 | In 1162 he had succeeded his father as ruler of Aragon and Barcelona . |