Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to do this he followed up the material throughout its various processes , and plotted its progress on a chart or series of charts . |
| 2 | On 4 July 1933 he made out an application to the Passport Office . |
| 3 | In 1933 he took out a British passport , falsely claiming his place of birth as Galway , Ireland . |
| 4 | Trance-like he drove down the Edgware Road , responding to the multitudinous traffic lights with mechanical movements , while the agitated Eleanor continued to lash his unreceptive ear with a never-ending stream of abuse . |
| 5 | In 1684 he turned over the retail side of his business to Francis Saunders and his partner Joseph Knight . |
| 6 | On his father 's death in 1867 he took over the business , and in the 1871 census he was described as ‘ chemist and dealer in foreign stamps ’ . |
| 7 | In 1678 he took out a patent for a simple ‘ engine ’ turning wheels for spinners of flax , and recommended county workhouses to Parliament in Provision for the Poor . |
| 8 | In 1892 he took up a post under W. B. Latham in the Birmingham Botanic Gardens , studying at the technical school in Birmingham , where he won the Queen 's prize in botany . |
| 9 | In 1236 he had both the honour of carrying the sceptre at the queen 's coronation , and the disgrace of imprisonment through a court cabal . |
| 10 | In about 1784 he set up a press there , and founded an ambitious system of circulating libraries ; to anyone wishing to set one up he offered a stock of books , a catalogue , and instructions . |
| 11 | When the last de Burgh Earl of Ulster died in 1333 he left only a daughter , Elizabeth Countess of Ulster in her own right , whom the king married to his second son , Lionel of Antwerp , created Duke of Clarence in 1362 . |
| 12 | In 1963 he called together a representative meeting to discuss plans to move forward from the Curriculum Steering Group and create a new and ( of course ) co-operative body which would assume responsibility for the national examination system , for giving advice on the school curriculum , and for relating the two . |
| 13 | In 1842 he wrote out a short sketch of his theory , and in 1844 a substantial essay that was intended for publication only if ( as he now feared ) he should die prematurely . |
| 14 | Hartlepool chairman Garry Gibson said : ‘ I 'm glad he cost only a train fare and not a plane fare . |
| 15 | In 1984 he took over the occupancy of 84 acres of land near Gosforth in Tyne and Wear which was owned by the Ashdale Land and Property Company . |
| 16 | By 1984 he plucked up the courage ( or obtained the permission ) to do the two things he really wanted : make wine from Pinot Gris ( originally a Burgundian grape ) as a Burgundian would , fermenting and maturing it in ( partly new ) French oak barriques ; and stop filtering his dry white wines . |
| 17 | In 1764 he wrote there the first Gothic novel , The Castle of Otranto , which , in his Description of Strawberry Hill , he connects directly with the house : ‘ A very proper habitation of , as it was the scene that inspired , the author . |
| 18 | He built his first car by the time he was 18. in 1909 he took over the Molsheim factory near Strasbourg and set about developing the greatest racing car in the world . |
| 19 | At the time he did n't make any comment , though I 'm sure he thought quite a lot ! |
| 20 | But he 'd made sure he knew where the quarry lived . |
| 21 | Fothergill was a doctor and in 1740 he set up a practice in White Hart Street very near the Collinson establishment and flowers from Peckham might well have adorned yet another house in the City . |
| 22 | Ludwitt comes back , all the neighbours are clustering around trying to get in , Ludwitt , first of all he sends away the neighbours |
| 23 | Jim was all for going on , for expanding , for advancing rather than retreating , but Cliff was beginning to think that after all he had n't the temperament for it , he could n't stand the anxiety , he did n't enjoy the suspense : all he wanted was security , independence , freedom from worry , being his own man . |
| 24 | In 1952 he took over the captaincy from Michael Barton . |
| 25 | In 1873 he took up a similar appointment with the Great Eastern Railway . |
| 26 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |
| 27 | He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research . |
| 28 | In October 1911 he took up a position as pupil and lay assistant to the Revd Herbert Wigan , the vicar of Dunsden , near Reading . |
| 29 | In 1911 he won both the British Open at Sandwich and the German Open . |
| 30 | In 1958 he took over the running of the Horncastle Maltings , which , after a series of ownerships was acquired by . |