Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] he [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While employed at St Stephen 's , he lived within the parish of St Margaret , Westminster , and he was active in parish life at least from 1522 onwards ; during 1552–4 he served as one of the churchwardens . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the Masters of 1960 he finished with 70 for a total of 283 and celebrated ‘ victory ’ . |
| 4 | Faced with a slump in orders , or with any problems over the supply of raw materials , he simply could not employ many of those he needed in brisker times . |
| 5 | For a few months in the summer of 1939 he worked at 2 Caxton Street , Westminster , alongside L. D. Grand , a Woolwich contemporary who ran the then inadmissible section D of the secret service . |
| 6 | This was not to last long however , for later in 1796 he wrote to all his friends and told them that he was going to live in London . |
| 7 | After her death in 1948 he married in 1949 his long-time friend and collaborator , the actress and journalist ( Kate ) Janet Maitland , daughter of Charles Dallas Alexander , of independent means , and widow of the actor Lauderdale Maitland . |
| 8 | In 1866 he moved to 11 Nelson Street , where he remained until his death , turning 24 Hardy Street into a private nursing home . |
| 9 | The business eventually declined , and in 1886 he returned to private practice , in partnership with his brother B. E. R. Newlands . |
| 10 | Promoted to Field Marshall in 1895 he died in 1914 of pneumonia at the Front in France where he was visiting Indian divisions . |
| 11 | In 1985 he moved to Corporate Finance as Group management accountant . |
| 12 | In 1888 he played in three tests for the Australians touring in England and he was capped three times for England , playing in South Africa in 1895–6 and in the West Indies in 1896–7 . |
| 13 | In 1898 he worked for some months in Naples on the evolution of small sharks , and then became a demonstrator in the natural history department of St Andrews University . |
| 14 | Having barely attained his majority he was returned to the first Exclusion Parliament for Radnorshire , and , although knighted by Charles II in 1680 , threw himself with an almost desperate zeal into the cause of Exclusion , with the result that in 1683 he went into voluntary exile in Holland , suspected of complicity in the Rye House plot . |
| 15 | In 1922 he reverted from temporary major to lieutenant ; he was promoted captain in 1924 and major seven years later . |
| 16 | The management of the Ben Franklin chain , though , was unimpressed by Walton 's suggestion , and in 1962 he left to open the first Wal-Mart Discount City at Rogers , Arkansas . |
| 17 | In 1914 he graduated with first-class honours as an associate . |
| 18 | His irreverent view of black states had already been comically revealed in Black Mischief ( 1932 ) ; and as a convert to Rome in 1930 he watched in 1936 , and without regret , the overthrow of a Spanish Republic violently intolerant of a Church he loved . |
| 19 | In 1843 he moved from central Liverpool to Percy Villa in Northumberland Terrace , Everton , and during the hey-day of St George 's church he was one of the most active parishioners . |
| 20 | In 1966 he won for Born Free , in 1968 for Lion in Winter , in 1991 for Dances With Wolves to name but three . |
| 21 | From 1843 he worked on marine engines with Robert Napier [ q.v. ] on Clydeside , doing installation work on four early Cunard liners . |
| 22 | In 1846 he sat on one of the tsar 's many secret committees on peasant affairs , in 1848 he chaired another , and in 1849 he succeeded his uncle , the Grand Duke Mikhail , as head of the empire 's military schools . |
| 23 | In 1815 he returned to Karlovci to collect material for a second song book , which later inspired a glowing review from Jakob Grimm , in which he compared the Serbian love songs to Solomon 's Song of Songs and wrote that the ‘ Serbs are by virtue of their language … the most blessed with poems , songs and stories , and it looks as if the good God had , by this rich gift of popular poetry , wished to make up to them for their lack of books . ’ |
| 24 | In 1206 he helped to victual the fleet in preparation for John 's campaign in Gascony . |
| 25 | In 1856 he turned to technical chemistry , especially the problem of recovering sulphur from alkali waste . |
| 26 | From 1873 to 1876 he acted as marine superintendent with Hargrove , Fergusson & Jackson , for whom he constructed both ships and machinery , striving always to achieve greater power , efficiency , and economy . |
| 27 | As a complement to these he published in 1691 A Compleat Course of Chymistry , rather similar to N. Lémery 's Cours de Chymie ( 1675 ) . |
| 28 | For example , when premier in 1971 , Chaban-Delmas ( 1969–72 ) sought to reform ORTF by a ‘ contrat de plan ’ akin to those he imposed on other public service organizations . |
| 29 | From 1871 to 1882 he sailed in Arctic waters . |
| 30 | From 1938 to 1944 he talked to many companies , including Kodak and IBM , to no avail . |