Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made history — remember . |
| 2 | I read history at Oxford and was fortunate to have J. M. Thompson , an authority on the French Revolution , as my history tutor at Magdalen . |
| 3 | Mr Major managed only one swipe at his tormentor : ‘ I believe history will look favourably on your economic and financial skills , ’ he told him . |
| 4 | Mr Major managed only one swipe at his tormentor : ‘ I believe history will look favourably on your economic and financial skills , ’ he told him . |
| 5 | I mean some , some of them are what , what I would deem as fairly easy , I mean I find history easy , but not everyone does |
| 6 | I think history has done this , and by history I mean everything which has worked through history to produce that result — geography , climate , agriculture , economics . |
| 7 | I think history can be so many different things to different people , and it 's partly a matter of the way in which you are taught , it 's partly a matter of what you 're taught . |
| 8 | I liked history and writing and reading . |
| 9 | At Newnham College , Cambridge , she read history ( 1913–16 ) , obtaining a second class , division II . |
| 10 | As Chairman of Ways and Means , you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , attempted to resolve the situation and eventually you made history in the House by deciding that the Committee would be quorate with just two members . |
| 11 | How do you think history will remember Lotus 's former chairman Mike Kimberley ? |
| 12 | Do you think history can repeat itself ? |
| 13 | ‘ Well , my dear Tess , ’ said Angel with some enthusiasm , ‘ I shall be only too glad to help you study history , for example … ’ |
| 14 | She studied history at St Hugh 's College , Oxford — early days for a woman — and knew Lewis Carroll , and was taught by one of the best teachers then in the historical school at Oxford , a future Master of Balliol , A. L. Smith , upon whom she always looked back with gratitude . |
| 15 | And there 's a learning process of being black : you start going to black clubs you start speaking black , you read history , you learn more about blacks and slavery ; it 's a process of learning . |
| 16 | I thought you read history . ’ |
| 17 | Yes , that , that 's , that 's very much part of it , but we want , you know history 's only , only made by people , it 's made by every , you know , all of us really , so you know , we 're asking for groups now to come to us and say , you know , ‘ we want to do a project on X to do with the motorway ’ , and we 'll be prepared to , you know , back it up as much as we can . |
| 18 | In 1877–9 she taught history at the embryo women 's department at Owens College ( later Manchester University ) . |
| 19 | Mary Dobson too , retired early from teaching at Tiverton Grammar school , where she taught History , ran the library and was Head of First Year . |
| 20 | I thought you taught history here ? ’ |
| 21 | Oh right is she doing history and poli oh |
| 22 | There were so many versions of Jesus , but only one can be true if you allow history to pronounce the verdict . |
| 23 | The more reading you do and the longer you study History , the more you will become alive to the quality and originality of what you are reading and the assumptions and values of the author . |
| 24 | She teaches history and Russian at the equivalent of a British junior secondary school . |
| 25 | ‘ Did n't you learn history when you were at school ? ’ |
| 26 | And Jennifer 's doing er did she say history and politics ? |
| 27 | We were the first British team ever to play in St Thomas and Tortoal ; in Anguilla we made history again because we played the first ever ‘ first-class ’ in England but it certainly will in Anguilla ! |
| 28 | But it is also possible to see it as an attempt to formulate the way in which the sliding incompatibility of the two can only be perceived through an ‘ internal distantiation ’ in which the problem of that ‘ relation ’ is enacted by its relation , in the sense of the telling of a story — which is how we get history . |
| 29 | In the Christian case , it led to the periodization of history , a chronological method that we still use , although nowadays we approach history from a purely secular point of view . |
| 30 | When we did history back in school I was very taken by Gandhi , actually . |