Example sentences of "of [adj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately for Napoleon 's schemes , Fernando proved reluctant and when in the summer of 1869 he contracted a morganatic marriage with a German-born actress , Elisa Hensler , he virtually put himself out of court . |
| 2 | After a brief spell in the newly created Ministry of Labour he returned to the Home Office in 1919 . |
| 3 | Browne had tentatively suggested the summer of that year as the " deadline " for it , but Eliot was uncertain how quickly he could recover his dramatic skills and , since he often needed to work slowly , he believed the spring of 1949 to be a more appropriate date.Throughout the spring and summer of 1948 he worked on it as consistently as he could , although there were egregious interruptions : in April , for example , he had to make the British Council trip to Aix-en-Provence which had been postponed the previous winter . |
| 4 | In a letter of 1794 he wrote : ‘ Yet the highest and most craggy parts , two acres of which do not afford sustenance for six months to one sheep , might with a great prospect of success , be planted with larches . ’ |
| 5 | At the age of eleven he had driven a herd of Welsh ponies up to the West Riding , for use as pit ponies in the mines . |
| 6 | At the age of eleven he went to London to work , eventually becoming a butcher employed by Thomas Pickworth , a staunch Calvinist . |
| 7 | In the Edinburgh District Memoir of 1861 he contributed a list of Silurian and Carboniferous fossils found in the area . |
| 8 | Towards the end of 1893 he moved to Liverpool as a freelance . |
| 9 | From the age of eight he began at 5 a.m. despite being so small that special pattens had to be made to enable him to reach the machinery , and he bore the scars of the corporal punishment inflicted on him there for the rest of his life . |
| 10 | He did come close to going on pension once at the age of 75 he sent off a perfunctory letter asking for retirement . |
| 11 | By the middle of 1925 he had fairly clear convictions about Catholic Christianity . |
| 12 | In the summer of 1925 he took part in his last athletics meeting in Scotland , winning the Scottish Amateur Athletics Association titles in the 100 , 220 , and 440 yards , before leaving to take up an appointment as a missionary teacher at the Anglo-Chinese College in Tientsin . |
| 13 | He was himself before the journalists — which the General had n't been — and because of that he came over well , that is unaffectedly . |
| 14 | and then on top of that he took the battery off Pat 's car and it fell over in the front so all the acid burnt the carpet ! |
| 15 | and he said on top of that he said you can bring your digger along and you can play in the sand as well |
| 16 | Of that he had no doubt . |
| 17 | No German would kill his dad , of that he felt certain , though lately he had begun to feel guilty about his own war efforts since Grace had signed up for a spell in the hospital tents , a mere half-mile behind the front line . |
| 18 | The only kind of music he liked was sung music and of that he liked all sorts — opera , lieder , folk , country , rock , jazz , soul , the blues . |
| 19 | On top of that he works part-time as a rowing coach for a local school . |
| 20 | Not Wright — he 's happy with it at his feet wherever he is and on top of that he has a quite phenomenal strike-rate . |
| 21 | At the end of 1866 he had asked the Governors for a testimonial , as he was applying for a post in the Midlands : |
| 22 | During England 's tour of 1989–90 he celebrated his hundredth Test by scoring his eighteenth century , passing 7,000 runs in the process , and at the end of the series his total stood at 7,134 at an average of 46 . |
| 23 | By the end of 1933 he had spent only $113 million and provided jobs for about one million . |
| 24 | In the spring of 1167 he led an army into the Auvergne , right on the eastern border of Aquitaine , in order to lay waste the land of Count William of Auvergne , who seems to have dispossessed his nephew the young Count . |
| 25 | At the end of 1684 he returned to England , fully qualified , and was taken on by Dr Thomas Sydenham as an assistant in a busy London practice . |
| 26 | When news of this war reached Henry Ii in the autumn of 1184. he summoned all three to England . |
| 27 | He had enjoyed a life of fishing there , until at the age of forty-five he met Lovebird Johnston . |
| 28 | At the end of 1985 he qualified as a solicitor ( ‘ this was the safety net and I had written my thesis on the copyright laws , which has been very useful to me ’ ) , but he had already decided to take the plunge as a full time professional musician . |
| 29 | In the winter of 1939–40 he became still more critical of Chamberlain . |
| 30 | At the age of 12 he went on holiday to Butlins in Ayr with his parents and had his first taste of competitive success . |