Example sentences of "in [adj] he [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In 1866 he moved to 11 Nelson Street , where he remained until his death , turning 24 Hardy Street into a private nursing home . |
| 4 | The business eventually declined , and in 1886 he returned to private practice , in partnership with his brother B. E. R. Newlands . |
| 5 | Promoted to Field Marshall in 1895 he died in 1914 of pneumonia at the Front in France where he was visiting Indian divisions . |
| 6 | In 1985 he moved to Corporate Finance as Group management accountant . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In 1922 he reverted from temporary major to lieutenant ; he was promoted captain in 1924 and major seven years later . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In 1914 he graduated with first-class honours as an associate . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In 1966 he won for Born Free , in 1968 for Lion in Winter , in 1991 for Dances With Wolves to name but three . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | In 1206 he helped to victual the fleet in preparation for John 's campaign in Gascony . |
| 19 | In 1856 he turned to technical chemistry , especially the problem of recovering sulphur from alkali waste . |