Example sentences of "he was [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E was boxin' fer years . ’ |
| 2 | The tenderness that emanated from him was balm to her wounded soul . |
| 3 | The first meal former doctor 's receptionist Shaunagh rustled up for him was cheese on toast with pickled walnuts . |
| 4 | He was chaplain to Waikune Prison during his time in the Maori pastorates , and welfare officer to the Fire Service in Wellington during his retirement . |
| 5 | He was chaplain to Archbishop Randall Davidson ( later Baron Davidson of Lambeth , q.v. ) from 1911 and helped to revise the coronation service , but was not closely involved in church affairs . |
| 6 | For some part of the next three decades he was chaplain in London to Denzil , first Baron Holles of Ifield ( whose will he witnessed in 1670 ) , and to Sir John Maynard [ qq.v. ] , both parliamentarian veterans . |
| 7 | Anselm had known Hugh as papal legate in France when he was abbot of Bec , but his close association with him came at a moment when he was in a very perplexing situation . |
| 8 | Further , between 1900 and 1906 he was lecturer in musical history at London University and his Concise History of Music ( 1878 ) was much used , reaching a nineteenth edition in 1915 . |
| 9 | From 1914 to 1919 he was lecturer in the department of Welsh at the University College of Wales , Aberystwyth . |
| 10 | From 1876 to 1891 he was lecturer in anatomy at the college , and in 1891 he was appointed dean and professor of pathology and bacteriology . |
| 11 | From 1908 till 1918 he was lecturer in metallurgy at Glasgow University , and became professor of metallurgy at the Royal Technical College , Glasgow , in 1918 . |
| 12 | He was lecturer in clinical neurology at the University of Oxford , consultant at consultant in neurological disability at the Radford Infirmatory , Infirmary and the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre , Oxford . |
| 13 | In March 1239 Agnes de Amundeville , a forester of fee of Feckenham Forest , gave the king an annual payment of one mark at the Exchequer for recovery of her bailiwick : it had been seized because of a venison offence by her son Ralph , committed when he was keeper of that forest . |
| 14 | He was Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean for only five years , between 1984 and 1989 , but besides organising a number of exhibitions and doing all the other things that Keepers do , he managed — quite extraordinarily — to produce this massive three-volume catalogue of the 785 later sculptures then under his care . |
| 15 | Wykeham was arrested , deprived of his temporalities , and accused of corruption when he was Keeper of the privy Seal and Chancellor before 1371 , while de la Mare was arrested and imprisoned in Nottingham Castle . |
| 16 | About 1256–7 he was lector at the Cambridge convent ( Thomas Eccleston , q.v. , De Adventu Fratrum Minorum , ed . |
| 17 | He ruled out credit controls when he was chancellor of the exchequer — but he also attacked the banks , in his 1990 budget , for their carefree personal lending . |
| 18 | That is certainly part of the money that is made available as a result of the far-sighted decision of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister , when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 19 | All this is taking place while the Prime Minister has had his present job and while he was Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 20 | When he was Chancellor of the Exchequer he started the orginal debt initiatives . |
| 21 | Indeed , it would have done some good to have one when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer , as it would have made a significant difference to some of the measures that he took , which stoked the fires of inflation . |
| 22 | UK Prime Minister John Major , whose critics claimed that he had known of fraud within BCCI when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1990 , announced on July 22 that Lord Justice Bingham would head an inquiry into the BCCI affair . |
| 23 | Meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 9-10 , Commonwealth Finance Ministers issued a strong call for rapid action by the richer countries on relief to poor debtor countries , urging early agreement on the " Trinidad Terms " advocated by Major in 1990 when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 24 | ‘ His name is Hung Mien-lo and he was Chancellor to Wang Ta-hung before his recent death . ’ |
| 25 | When he was Chancellor in the Thatcher Cabinet , he wrote to Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown that the machine tools exported by Matrix Churchill were ‘ not lethal . ’ |
| 26 | Yesterday , John Major celebrated his first year as Prime Minister but we know that he was Chancellor in Mrs. Thatcher 's Government in the latter part of it — |
| 27 | Nigel Lawson revealed in his memoirs just how close he came to introducing it when he was Chancellor in 1984 . |
| 28 | In the fight for Phnom Penh , he was chief of staff of the Khmer Rouge forces , and was made defence minister in the 1975 government . |
| 29 | Lord Aldington was asked what he knew about the Yugoslavs who had been repatriated by the British Eight Army 's V Corps while he was chief of staff to its commander , General Sir Charles Keightley . |
| 30 | Mr Zivkovic , who was asked by the judge to be more polite , said : ‘ I think he is guilty if he was chief of staff of V Corps at the time of the handing over . |