Example sentences of "he [verb] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1770 at the age of nineteen he went to Italy , and a volume of drawings of friezes , urns , and classical ornaments which he made in Rome is preserved in the Mellon Collection : he later told the diarist , Joseph Farington [ q.v. ] , that he had become well acquainted with Piranesi , and that while abroad he had kept a journal written in Italian but had subsequently destroyed it because he was embarrassed by its poor linguistic quality . |
| 2 | Mr Singh repeated a statement he made in parliament on Wednesday that a Pakistani failure to hand over the Memons would have serious implications . |
| 3 | The official said Mr Kohl , in remarks he made in India yesterday , wanted to ‘ put pressure on the two countries to go ahead and ratify ’ the treaty on closer European Community political and economic union . |
| 4 | The work was never made quite as planned , but several aspects of it occur in the ballet he made in Israel many years later , and some in works for Sadler 's Wells in the fifties . |
| 5 | The only concession he made in Zaïs was to let Malherbe include in the preface the following statement : ‘ In the course of the work , M. Vincent d'Indy has thought it necessary to add certain viola parts , which are sometimes lacking in the original score , and to modify or complète wind parts that are too sketchily indicated ’ ( vol.16 , p.lviii ) . |
| 6 | I also have a copy of a speech he made in Geneva to the United Nations , in which he referred to the fatwa as outrageous , and an abuse of the most fundamental human rights — really very strong language for the British Government ! ’ |
| 7 | I welcome the Foreign Secretary 's visit to India , but will the right hon. Gentleman reflect on the speech that he made in Luton at the end of last year ? |
| 8 | Later he lived in Naples , his name occurring in the letters and reminiscences of Sir William Gell [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | At first he lived in Naples and became acquainted with Sir William Gell , the excavator of Pompeii , Edward Dodwell [ qq.v. ] , and other archaeologists and collectors . |
| 10 | From 1902 he lived in Gravesend , where he both wrote books and practised medicine . |
| 11 | I knew some of the kids from school but not most of the City kids [ he lived in Witney ] . |
| 12 | After his marriage he lived in Hanworth , Middlesex , but the tragic accidental death of his daughter Elizabeth from eating a piece of bread baited with rat-poison may have impelled his move from Hanworth after 1605 . |
| 13 | He lived in Devon . |
| 14 | At one time he lived in Devon I think and he also has association with Yorkshire , so that is could be quite probably in the countryside but it does n't have to be a forest , does n't have to be a fox out there but he does actually say I imagine this midnight moment 's forest . |
| 15 | His wife died in 1902 and for the twenty years of his retirement he lived in hotels . |
| 16 | He lived in Catte Street , approximately on the present site of All Souls College chapel , within the area around St Mary 's church where the Oxford book trade was concentrated . |
| 17 | He lived in France all his life and , apart from three years spent in London ( 1857–61 ) training for a business career , only visited Britain for short painting expeditions on three other occasions in 1874 , 1881 , and 1897 . |
| 18 | Before moving to Four Marks , he lived in Alton for most of his life , attending local schools |
| 19 | His wealth in his latter years is problematic ; he lived in Bethnal Green , died intestate , and was buried in Kensington 6 July 1701 . |
| 20 | As he lived in Bethnal Green , it was , but so was Hackney . |
| 21 | In his last years he lived in Wymondham and continued to preach in Wymondham Abbey and neighbouring parishes . |
| 22 | If he lived in squalor , I 'd be round there with chicken soup and clean shirts ! ’ |
| 23 | His education included a year at Eton ; and for a period of seven years from 1740 to 1746 he lived in Italy , where at the beginning of his stay he met and formed a close and lasting friendship with Horace Walpole [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | A gentleman in Birmingham would like to make contact with an ex-member of the R A F who he served with , his name is Dennis , and it was known that he lived in West Bridgeford Nottingham . |
| 25 | He lived in Liverpool until 1915 , and thereafter in Oxford until his death there 28 September 1924 . |
| 26 | After his release he lived in Kent , preaching regularly in Rochester Cathedral and laying the foundations for what became the Quaker community there . |
| 27 | He communicated nothing about his sporting ambitions to his mother with whom he lived in Rugby . |
| 28 | More , he lived in hope that one such mirror would find something behind his looks only another pair of eyes could see : some undiscovered self that would free him from being Gentle . |
| 29 | He told me he was a money lender in a small way and that he lived in London now . |
| 30 | Unused to the rough and ready answering-back of British socialism , he remarked next day that if he lived in Britain he would be a Tory . |