Example sentences of "he [num ord] [vb past] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He first got into naturism in 1959 and spent years only stripping off abroad - especially in Yugoslavia , the Mecca for all naturists . |
| 2 | He first played for England in 1934 , when he had match figures of 10 for 179 against Australia . |
| 3 | The conflict between Chilperic and his half-brothers began on the death of their father Chlothar I. More interestingly , Merovech 's bid for power followed his uncle 's murder ; similarly Gundovald , who had been more or less ignored when he first returned to Gaul in 582 , became a plausible candidate for the throne when Chilperic was killed . |
| 4 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 5 | The song ‘ You are my Heart 's Delight ’ from Lehár 's operetta The Land of Smiles ( 1929 ) was one of his most famous , and it was in this work that he first came to England in 1931 . |
| 6 | To the BBC SSO , whom he holds in great affection — he first came to Scotland in 1988 for their Festival of New Chinese Music — he has gifted a new work , Death and the Fire : a dialogue with Paul Klee , to be premiered on 27 March . |
| 7 | Denis Brailsford , an inter-war spectator and a distinguished sports historian , recalled that he first went to football in the 1930s as part of his father 's extended family of miners and their wives , who made up the core of a group that regularly went to Mansfield Town 's home games . |
| 8 | ( It should be recalled that when he first appeared in Hanoi in August , everyone asked ‘ Who is Ho Chi Minh ? ’ ) |
| 9 | He joined them when he first moved to England in 1991 to contest the Vauxhall junior championship , a series he led for much of the season . |
| 10 | He next surfaced in Amsterdam in 1969 as an insurrectionist amongst the more seditious members of the hippy community and was instrumental in provoking clashes between them and the police . |