Example sentences of "in [num] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1875 he married Annie ( died 1924 ) , the daughter of Thomas Tatam , farmer , of Little Eaton , Derbyshire . |
2 | From 1873 to 1875 he was a draughtsman in the office of Charles Barry , and in 1875 he joined E. R. Robson 's office at the recently formed London School Board . |
3 | In 1875 he gave four lectures on his discoveries at the Royal Institution , and 1877 saw the publication of his book , Discoveries at Ephesus ; a second book , Discoveries on the Site of Ancient Ephesus , published posthumously in 1890 , added little to the earlier work . |
4 | In 1875 he moved to the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland as the works manager and assistant locomotive superintendent at Inchicore near Dublin , where he was responsible for making improvements to the automatic vacuum brake . |
5 | In 1875 he found that nitrosyl chloride could be used to characterize terpenes , compounds which are found in turpentine and other essential oils . |
6 | In 1875 he entered the newly established University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , where his contemporaries included many other nationally-minded young Welshmen . |
7 | In 1875 he published Diseases of the Hip , Knee , and Ankle Joints , with their Deformities , and for the rest of his life published many pamphlets setting out his ideas , but these were not widely distributed . |
8 | In 1869 they sent him to Peru to supervise running two of their steam ploughs , and there he remained for thirteen years , soon finding scope for his natural business acumen . |
9 | So in 1869 he came back to England and went to live in a large house in the country . |
10 | In 1869 he sold his business and began preaching throughout Britain . |
11 | Cook revelled in their spirit and tenacity and after a camping tour to the Holy Land in 1869 he wrote : |
12 | In 1869 he married Mary , daughter of Senator Robert Barry Dickey of Amherst , Nova Scotia . |
13 | In 1869 he married Janet , daughter of Walter Sanderson , inspector of the poor , of Galashiels . |
14 | In 1869 he married his cousin , Maria Sarah ( died 1910 ) , daughter of Gordon Forbes of Ham Common . |
15 | In 1869 he married Charlotte Pither , daughter of Robert Bush of St Helier , Jersey . |
16 | In 1869 he married Isabella Mary Josephine ( ‘ Ella ’ ) , daughter of Lieutenant-General John Mackenzie Macintyre , Royal Artillery , of Fortrose , Ross-shire . |
17 | In 1869 he married Matilda ( died 1905 ) , daughter of the Revd Thomas Mitchell , vicar of Sancton and Holme-on-the-Wolds . |
18 | In 1869 he married Louise Ann ( died 1886 ) , daughter of William Mason , medical officer of health for Burton-on-Trent . |
19 | In 1869 he presided over its annual general meeting , his last public engagement before he died , a week later . |
20 | In 1771 he proved another of Waring 's assertions suggested to Waring by one of his students , John ( later , Sir John ) Wilson . |
21 | In 1771 he preached also at the flourishing society of Derryanville and at Kilmoriarty there was the largest congregation he had seen during the week . |
22 | Then in 1771 he moved to Cromford ( q.v. ) in Derbyshire , and there built a large cotton mill powered by water , which led to his spinning machine being called the ‘ Water Frame ’ . |
23 | In 1655–6 he engaged in discussions with some disaffected Commonwealthsmen about a possible basis for an alternative government , but he steered clear of active conspiracy or rebellion . |
24 | In 1272 he acted as a justice of the general eyre in Herefordshire , Staffordshire , and Shropshire . |
25 | In 1931–2 he returned to Scotland on furlough in order to be ordained as a Congregational Church minister . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | Early in 1934 she suffered a stroke and died 10 January peacefully in her sleep . |
28 | After the third European Bridge Championships were held there in 1934 she turned professional . |
29 | In 1934 he received the Linnean medal . |
30 | In 1934 he married Florence , who had trained in Canada as a nurse , the twenty-one-year-old daughter of Hugh McKenzie , a Canadian missionary at Tientsin . |