Example sentences of "april [num] he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 In April 1776 he resigned his fellowship and went to live there , residing in the parish for the rest of his life , a quiet existence broken only by journeys to see his relations in Somerset , on average once every three years .
2 When , for the first time , the Reverend John Wesley stopped in Portadown , then a village of about 700 inhabitants , on Friday 10 April 1767 he made his oft-quoted remark that it was ‘ a place not troubled with any kind of religion . ’
3 In an advertisement in the Northampton Mercury of 27 April 1747 he describes himself simply as a millwright , but goes on to offer his services as a manufacturer and repairer of many kinds of agricultural machinery , weighbridges and ‘ mathematical and philosophical instruments ’ , as a designer of all kinds of mills , as a maker of ventilators for hospitals , gaols , granaries , or ships , and as a surveyor of gentlemen 's estates .
4 This was a lengthy business , and from December 1103 to April 1105 he contented himself with justifying his exile in the face of criticisms from his English friends .
5 The effects of the severe climate on his fellow soldiers caught his attention and he was able to develop his consequent ideas on atmospheric humidity when in April 1919 he resumed his post in Simla .
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