Example sentences of "in the [adj] he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1970s he bet his father he could open a vineyard in Utah , a state where drink and the devil are considered kissin' cousins . |
| 2 | In the 1960s he served Warrington AC as coach , secretary and chairman . |
| 3 | In the 1960s he made Tiger Haven into a wildlife sanctuary that perfectly complemented the 83 square miles ( 215 sq km ) of Dudwa National Park , run by the Indian Forest Department , just across the river . |
| 4 | In the 1960s he worked for several years in industry , including a period as Chief Architect at Camus , before being appointed Head of the Architectural Division at the National Building Agency . |
| 5 | In the 1960s he gave up practice to pursue an academic career as an architectural historian . |
| 6 | Originally in the nail trade , in the 1620s he turned to iron manufacture , and about 1625 established an iron-slitting mill on the River Stour at Hyde , near Kinver , Staffordshire , costing £500 . |
| 7 | In the long-term he hoped that Soviet control over them would break down , allowing the re-creation of a common identity in Europe ‘ from the Atlantic to the Urals ’ . |
| 8 | In the sixties he saw the clergy and the place of religion in Iranian society . |
| 9 | Germi had begun his career directing serious , realistic features on postwar Italy , but in the sixties he changed to broad , satirical sex comedies , the best and most popular being Divorce Italian Style , which received three Oscar nominations . |
| 10 | In the former he had two 1sts , two 2nds , a 4th and a 7th to discard , a clear indication of his mastery in this regatta . |
| 11 | In the mid-1640s he became active in the Leveller movement . |
| 12 | Regular work for New Society and the Times launched him as a freelance editorial illustrator , and he has an impressive list of clients — in the '80s he drew all the covers for Penguin 's new editions of Anthony Burgess ' work , and his work has appeared in the Independent on Sunday , Observer , Radio Times , New Scientist , American Esquire and — among other things — in numerous advertisements and promotions for whisky in the UK , Ireland and the US . |
| 13 | In the 1220s he began the series of verse lives of English saints which constitute the greater part of his work : Saints Birinus , Guthlac , Hugh of Lincoln , Oswald , Edmund [ qq.v . ] , |
| 14 | A pupil of Augustus Pugin the elder [ q.v. ] , in the mid-1830s he became a partner of his father . |
| 15 | In the first instance he was guilty of carelessness ; in the second he exposed Gough 's lack of match fitness and the defender 's mistake put Verheyen through on Goram though he was unable to score . |
| 16 | So Harrison had lost the first fall unfairly : in the second he had twisted his man feet up and then let him crash to the ground . |
| 17 | In the second he stood bareheaded , dressed in a swirling black cloak , fastened at the throat by a gold and enamel clasp . |
| 18 | In the 1670s he developed a very popular ‘ anti-rheumatick tincture ’ , initially to relieve his own affliction . |
| 19 | And of his views in the 1840s he wrote : " We were now much less democrats than I had been , because so long as education continues to be so wretchedly imperfect , we dreaded the ignorance and especially the selfishness and brutality of the mass … " ( p. 138 ) |
| 20 | In the thirties he took up abstract painting then in 1942 he was commissioned as a war artist , painting the bombed Coventry Cathedral . |
| 21 | In the thirties he took up abstract painting then in 1942 he was commissioned as a war artist , painting the bombed Coventry Cathedral . |
| 22 | In the 1590s he favoured a tactic of moderation in the expectation of a favourable political change . |
| 23 | His love of Britain and wholehearted support for the fight against Fascism gave his films an urgency and richness which were lacking in the few he made after the war . |
| 24 | Second only to the family , his chief love was for the North of Scotland and in the mid-fifties he realised a life-time ambition by becoming the owner of a 26,000-acre estate in Sutherland and , typical of the man , here he turned this unit into a sound agricultural business as well as a sporting estate . |
| 25 | In the 1950s he had condemned the French Fourth Republic as a weak regime , vacillating in its policies , too often a victim rather than a shaper of international events . |
| 26 | In the 1950s he had failed to advance far in the party nationally , and had instead made his name as internal affairs minister in the Land of Hamburg after 1961 . |
| 27 | In the 1950s he wrote soccer for The Guardian under the pseudonym ‘ Silchester ’ . |
| 28 | In the 1950s he felt we could n't afford a new car , so be bought a prewar London taxi , and he and I built a Nissen hut as a garage . |
| 29 | One of his forebears was James Murray , compiler of the ‘ Oxford English Dictionary ’ , and when Les Murray went to Sydney University in the 1950s he spent his days ingesting the contents of the famous Fisher Library , which was ‘ full of the cultural wonders that bushies like me were despised for not having . ’ |
| 30 | In the 1950s he bought the major share of Universal Pictures , which he steered to good fortune during a difficult period , with movies featuring such stars as Cary Grant , James Stewart and Doris Day . |