Example sentences of "of [num] he [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of eleven he went to London to work , eventually becoming a butcher employed by Thomas Pickworth , a staunch Calvinist . |
| 2 | Towards the end of 1893 he moved to Liverpool as a freelance . |
| 3 | At the end of 1684 he returned to England , fully qualified , and was taken on by Dr Thomas Sydenham as an assistant in a busy London practice . |
| 4 | At the age of twenty-one he moved to London , working briefly as a civil engineer before joining the Admiralty hydrographers ' department . |
| 5 | At the age of 22 he wrote to his father from Paris : ‘ What annoys me most is that these idiots in France still think I am seven years old , because that is when they first knew me . ’ |
| 6 | In 1770 at the age of nineteen he went to Italy , and a volume of drawings of friezes , urns , and classical ornaments which he made in Rome is preserved in the Mellon Collection : he later told the diarist , Joseph Farington [ q.v. ] , that he had become well acquainted with Piranesi , and that while abroad he had kept a journal written in Italian but had subsequently destroyed it because he was embarrassed by its poor linguistic quality . |
| 7 | Through the summer of 1929 he complained to Dobrée of roasting in the modern city 's horrors ( yet wondered if he would find the country any more bearable ) . |
| 8 | Then at the age of 35 he moved to the ruined fortress of Pispir on the east bank of the Nile . |
| 9 | Actions speak louder than words : at the age of seventy he climbed to a house |
| 10 | At the age of fifteen he moved to Copenhagen to complete his practical engineering experience , and two years later graduated as a mechanical engineer at the Copenhagen Technical College . |
| 11 | At the end of 1864 he went to Bombay to superintend a large land reclamation scheme adjacent to the harbour , which he did so successfully that in 1873 the government of India formed the Bombay Port Trust with Ormiston as chief engineer . |
| 12 | In the autumn of 1959 he wrote to Eliot from Italy , where he was staying with his daughter , expressing grave doubts about his worth as a poet . |
| 13 | He still longed to be a painter though , and in the summer of 1939 he moved to Paris , where he intended to settle and paint . |
| 14 | H. N. Brailsford , whose 1916 book had done much to popularize the idea of the League , spoke for a generation whose hopes had been shattered by the events of the inter-war years when , at the end of 1939 he confided to his ex-wife : |
| 15 | Sampson , however , insisted that Lewis should put his name to anything which was written , and in the course of 1939 he set to work . |
| 16 | At the age of twenty-two he returned to Ireland and on his father 's advice sought admission to the National Deaf Mute College in America for a degree course . |