Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his retirement from the Institut Pasteur , where he lectured for some 50 years , he devoted himself entirely to his cookery studies . |
| 2 | The following day , 13 January 1839 , found Gould on Flinder 's Island , where he took among other prizes , ‘ five newly laid eggs ’ of a black swan . |
| 3 | Sterling was given an office at the Department of Trade and Industry , where he advised on industrial policy , and had a big say in plans for the future of broadcasting . |
| 4 | Li visited Singapore on Aug. 11-13 , where he agreed with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew to conclude negotiations on establishing diplomatic relations " as early as possible " . |
| 5 | Towards the end of his life he bought Wood House with its estate at Wood Lane , Shepherd 's Bush , where he lived with two cousins , Amelia and Maria Bridge . |
| 6 | The man claims he was then taken to a boat on the Norfolk Broads , where he lived for two weeks , and then spent a week holed-up in a room at an unknown holiday camp . |
| 7 | But at Allen Street , where he lived in considerable poverty , he insisted on his independence , cooked all his meals on a gas ring in his room and refused to accept any hospitality from Minton . |
| 8 | He made his way back to his native area around Sorn , Muirkirk and Mauchline , where he slept at various farms , including Garfield , Meadowhead and Priesthill . |
| 9 | By November 1308 he had apparently renounced the world and entered the Irish Dominican house at Trim , where he died on 21 October 1314 . |
| 10 | ( Missolonghi , on the mainland opposite , had been Lord Byron 's pied-á-terre , where he died in 1824 , with whom Leonard shared much , romantically and in the fuller Romantic sense . ) |
| 11 | Those interested in seeing more of the sculptor 's work can visit a museum to him in the village of Sacre Monte , just north of Varese , where he died in 1950 . |
| 12 | Eadberht abdicated of his own accord in 758 , handing the kingdom over to his son , Oswulf , and becoming a cleric at York ( where he died in 768 ) , but Oswulf was killed within the year by his own household in 759 near the unidentified settlement of Methel Wongtun and replaced by Aethelwald Moll , who is likely to have been associated with those who were responsible for Oswulf 's murder ; nor did Eadberht 's descendants recover royal power for twenty years . |
| 13 | The Foreign Minister Shimon Peres on Aug. 21-23 visited Moscow , where he met with Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kosyrev . |
| 14 | He trained at Hendon Staff College and Cambridge University , where he studied under influential economists including Mr Michael Posner , a Fellow of Pembroke College , and Mr Ralph Turvey from the London School of Economics . |
| 15 | US President-elect Bill Clinton has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship from University College , Oxford , where he studied in 1968 and '69 . |
| 16 | In November of the same year he talked on " The Idiom of Modern Verse " to the Cambridge English Club , where he had for one auditor the appearance of " a very shy , neurotic man " 32 In 1937 he gave an address to the Friends of Rochester Cathedral on religious drama , and lectured on Shakespeare at Edinburgh University he told Lawrence Durrell , however , that he seemed to have spoken about what he himself was interested in doing in the theatre and not about Shakespeare at all.In April 1938 he travelled to Lisbon in order to sit on the jury for the Camoens Prize ; when he came back , he had to address the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral on the poetry of George Herbert and then , two months later , talk on " The Future of Poetic Drama " at an International Theatre Congress in Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 17 | A surgeon 's son , he was educated at the Dragon School , Oxford , St Paul 's School , London , Jesus College , Cambridge , and St Thomas 's Hospital , where he qualified in 1946 . |
| 18 | The retirement lasted two year , until McLaren tempted him back to the sport in 1982 and his old skills were soon apparent at Brands Hatch and Watkins Glen , where he returned to winning ways . |
| 19 | The Veterinary Products Committee , where he served for four years , gives advice on food and animal drug issues to the Minister of Agriculture . |
| 20 | ( Van , 1896 ) On his return to England my father was appointed to the Consular Service and posted to Taranto in southern Italy , where he served for two years . |
| 21 | His connection with tramways was first established with the Blackburn and Over Darwen steam tramway , where he served for three years . |
| 22 | He visited the Royal Academy , where he exhibited in 1797 and 1798 , and frequented other exhibitions . |
| 23 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |
| 24 | Sunderland Council has been praised by the district auditor in his annual appraisal where he pointed to several areas where the council had given value for money . |
| 25 | This lasted for two years , until he became Headmaster of Doncaster Grammar School , where he stayed until 1881 . |
| 26 | He was appointed gentleman of the bedchamber to the Prince of Wales in 1791 , represented Scarborough ( 1796–1802 ) and Monmouth ( 1802–13 ) in the House of Commons , was made a privy councillor in 1797 and comptroller ( until 1804 ) of the household , then joint paymaster-general of the forces under the premiership of William Pitt and the third Duke of Portland in 1804–13 , before accepting the governorship of the Cape Colony , South Africa , where he arrived on 6 April 1814 . |
| 27 | He was very bright , and sailed through the Royal Grammar School at High Wycombe to Sussex University , where he arrived in 1972 to read Languages . |
| 28 | The next phase of Blackwell 's career was in the colony of Massachusetts Bay , where he arrived in 1684 . |
| 29 | Born in Devon in 1954 , Andrew Mudge left school at the age of fifteen and did nine years ' service in the Navy before becoming Gardener for the Trust at Castle Drogo where he worked for seven years . |
| 30 | He was made Senior Art Adviser for the West Riding County Council in 1947 , where he worked among other things , on a policy of buying pictures for schools . |