Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] his [noun sg] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first expedition , under the king himself , was to sail to Flanders ; the second , under the Earl of Northampton , was to go to Brittany ; and the third and largest was despatched to Aquitaine under the command of the Earl of Derby , who succeeded his father as Earl of Lancaster in that year . |
| 2 | Thomas Martyn , son of John Martyn and who succeeded his father as Professor of Botany at Cambridge , summarised these in the Preface of his revised edition of the Dictionary , published in 1807 . |
| 3 | Responsibility for Housing and Works was taken on by Adriaan Vlok , who retained his position as Minister of Correctional Services but relinquished the Ministry for the Budget to Org Marais . |
| 4 | António Hama Thai ( who retained his post as Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces ) , and Maj.-Gen. |
| 5 | Chapple-Hyam is adamant there is still significant improvement to come from the colt , who lost his position as Guineas favourite and is now 7–1 from 9–2 with Ladbrokes . |
| 6 | Sitting pretty : Marion Barry , who lost his job as Mayor of Washington and served six months ' jail for cocaine possession , is back in city government after winning a council seat . |
| 7 | Two nights later , Derek was having a drink in the same hotel when the same person approached him accompanied by a second man who gave his name as Alexander Atkins . |
| 8 | Ken Olisa , who left his position as head of Wang 's European operation shortly after the company filed for Chapter 11 is blaming the company 's problems on its failure to get on the Unix bandwagon in time : ‘ We missed the PC revolution and , having missed it , we missed everything else ’ , he says in an interview with the UK 's Computing . |
| 9 | In Britain Sir Horace Rumbold , who ended his career as ambassador to Vienna in 1896 – 1900 , is a striking individual case of the same cosmopolitanism . |