Example sentences of "[num] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he instituted the National Art Survey to record all pre-eighteenth-century buildings . |
| 2 | It came from many quarters , both domestic and foreign , for his megalomaniac , as it was often characterized , insistence on Iran 's ‘ imperial vocation ’ of which in 1972 he celebrated the 2,500th birthday . |
| 3 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 4 | In 1933 he joined the Old Vic Company for an impressive range of stage work ( Henry VIII again , The Cherry Orchard , Macbeth , Measure for Measure , The Tempest ) and in 1936 he was the first English actor ever to be invited to appear at the Comédie Française in Paris , where he played Molière 's Le Médecin Malgré Lui . |
| 5 | In 1867 he joined the Independent Order of Good Templars , a fraternal society for teetotal men and women which , unlike most fraternal societies , offered no mutual aid financial scheme . |
| 6 | In 1985 he wrote the famous No Turning Back pamphlet and was a member of the Adam Smith Omega Project which drafted the privatisation blueprint for the second Thatcher government . |
| 7 | In 1780 he entered the Royal Navy as surgeon 's mate , becoming full surgeon in 1782 . |
| 8 | In 1903 he joined the royal commission on the coal supplies of Great Britain ( 1901–5 ) . |
| 9 | His first patent was taken out in 1875 ; he constructed dynamometers which won a medal at the 1878 Paris exhibition ; and in 1879 he invented the liquid microphone . |
| 10 | In 1825 he induced the then foreign minister , the comte de Damas , to experiment with an essay competition as a means of choosing the most able young attachés for promotion to secretary of embassy or legation ; and in 1830 the Prince de Polignac , who had succeeded Damas , was persuaded to set up another training course . |
| 11 | On May 26 he won the Darbakalan by-election , easily defeating his Congress ( I ) opponent by 53,000 votes . |
| 12 | In 1711 he became the official printer of the London Gazette and the South Sea Company . |
| 13 | In 1874 he entered the Royal ( ‘ Dick ’ ) Veterinary College , Edinburgh , and in 1876 became MRCVS . |
| 14 | In 77/78 he relinquished the hot seat to former Grundle Ferry Dynamo boss , Roy Alderman , and then the following season to Rabbi Lionel Cohen , who never attended a Saturday match on religious grounds . |
| 15 | In 1898 he presented the fine site overlooking Aberystwyth on which the National Library of Wales was built . |
| 16 | In his Collins lecture of 1984 he described the cultural authoritarianism of Samuel Johnson 's Dictionary of the English Language , whose acuity and precision of definition should not blind us to the fact that ‘ it accomplished the reduction of the language to the written and the written to the literary . ’ |
| 17 | In 1920 he joined the newly-formed Royal Signals ( TA ) , and then transferred to the Supplementary Reserve in 1925 . |
| 18 | As we have seen , Aung San had a great admiration for Nehru and in 1940 he attended the annual Congress at Ramgarh , regarded by Communists as bourgeois . |
| 19 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 20 | On 22 May 1807 he joined the Royal Naval College in Portsmouth for a period of eighteen months after which , as a midshipman , he served in Lavinia in the Mediterranean and north Atlantic for more than three years . |
| 21 | He always wanted to become Prime Minister , and in 1969 he secured the safe Tory seat of Louth at the age of 29 , becoming the country 's youngest MP.The trouble was , he was in too much of a hurry . |
| 22 | When Richard Baxter returned to Kidderminster in 1647 he found the Civil War had brought about some changes which were helpful to his ministry . |
| 23 | In 1859 he built the first of his 2–2–2 type express locomotives , two of which took part in the railway ‘ race ’ between east- and west-coast companies from London to Edinburgh in 1888 , and in 1863 he developed the 2–4–0 type for use over more heavily graded routes . |
| 24 | In 1859 he bought the later Ilminster estate , now occupied by much of Swanage north of the Brook and extending to Ulwell . |
| 25 | In 1870 he gave the first authentic account of amoebae from the human intestine . |
| 26 | Cooke 's interest in fungi began while he was teaching , and in 1862 he published the first popular book on toadstools , A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi . |
| 27 | When Knox became a fellow of King 's in 1909 he inherited the then deceased Headlam 's work on Herodas and applied himself to the fragmentary texts of the Herodas papyri in the British Museum . |
| 28 | At sixteen he joined the Gaelic League and took every opportunity to improve his writing and public speaking . |
| 29 | In 1908 he visited the Arctic , and in 1909 Sudan . |
| 30 | In 1610 he published The Starry Messenger . |