Example sentences of "[adj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1357 he is required by statute to entrust the administration of the property to the near relations of the deceased . |
| 2 | They 're bound to take to Filmer too , you know how civilized he can seem , and I do n't suppose news of the trial got much attention here since it collapsed almost before it began . |
| 3 | The latest medical theories suggest that Mozart 's last illness had its roots in the various serious infections he had suffered as a child : on the early trip to Paris and London he had contracted rheumatic fever , tonsillitis. and typhoid fever ; in 1167 he had caught smallpox ; and in Italy he seems to have had bronchitis and yellow jaundice . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Even of that first ecstatic experience with Mohammed in 1895 he would write much later , ‘ Every time since then that I have sought after pleasure , it is the memory of that night I have pursued ’ ( If It Die , 283 ) . |
| 6 | Promoted to Field Marshall in 1895 he died in 1914 of pneumonia at the Front in France where he was visiting Indian divisions . |
| 7 | In 1895 he was promoted back to the second class , but two years later , at the age of forty-five , a medical board found him unfit for duty ‘ due to chronic rheumatism and cracked feet ’ . |
| 8 | As early as 1895 he was a regular contributor to the Engineer and Engineering , taking the great engineers of the day to task over technical issues , and he soon became well known . |
| 9 | In 1895 he married Katherine Mary , daughter of Thomas McEwen , dominie of Baldernock School . |
| 10 | In 1895 he was appointed to succeed William Adams [ q.v. ] as locomotive superintendent of the London and South Western Railway , where he had new and well-equipped locomotive workshops built in Eastleigh to replace the existing inadequate facilities in Nine Elms in London . |
| 11 | In 1895 he married Ethel Louisa , daughter of John Robert Griffith , a solicitor , of Llanrwst , north Wales . |
| 12 | In 1895 he became gas engineer and in 1900 transferred to a similar post on the Midland Railway at Derby , where he became assistant works manager in 1905 , works manager in 1907 , and chief mechanical engineer in 1909 . |
| 13 | In 1895 he married Emmie Needham ( died 1934 ) , daughter of Philip Smith . |
| 14 | In 1895 he was made a director of the Bank of England , becoming deputy governor in 1911 and governor in 1913 . |
| 15 | In 1895 he became secretary to the British Association seismological committee for study of earth tremors and the following year he and the seismologist John Milne [ q.v. ] , newly returned from his pioneering work in Japan , became joint secretaries of its newly established subcommittee for seismological investigation , until Davison retired from this position in 1899 . |
| 16 | In 1895 he married Rhoda , daughter of Colin Gibb Lawrence , bookkeeper , of Brechin . |
| 17 | In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police . |
| 18 | In 1895 he entered the alkali business . |
| 19 | In 1895 he married Nellie Dacey , daughter of a Sheffield railway guard . |
| 20 | In 1895 he began to build his first full-size glider , the Bat ; it had pronounced dihedral , and was fitted with a rudder but no tailplane . |
| 21 | In April 1895 he discussed the construction of the Bat with Otto Lilienthal , the German hang-gliding pioneer , and learned a great deal about the practical problems of controlling hang-gliders in the air . |
| 22 | In 1895 he instituted the National Art Survey to record all pre-eighteenth-century buildings . |
| 23 | In 1895 he became examining chaplain to the bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa , Alfred Tucker [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | In 1895 he contested West Leeds as a Conservative against Herbert ( later Viscount ) Gladstone [ q.v. ] and was defeated by only ninety-six votes . |
| 25 | In 1465 he received the most valuable component of his early endowment , the duchy lordships of Bolingbroke ( Lincs . ) , |
| 26 | In 1465 he wrote that he wished to have his doublet made of worsted ‘ for the worship of Norfolk ’ ( 17 , iv , 188 ) . |
| 27 | In 1465 he received the most valuable component of his early endowment , the duchy lordships of Bolingbroke ( Lincs . ) , |
| 28 | At this he leapt from his chair in one long gingery streak , seized the bag and without ceremony upended it . |
| 29 | This he did with difficulty , partly on account of his bad eyesight , partly because of what in later years would come to be referred to as ‘ a learning disability ’ or ‘ mild dyslexia ’ ; and partly because he simply was n't much of a reader . |
| 30 | In this he recognizes the same problem which faces the insider/ethnographer , for he clearly understands that pretence , deception , and bizarre social drama play a large part in police culture and accepts this will be difficult to research . |