Example sentences of "[num] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police . |
| 2 | Promoted to Field Marshall in 1895 he died in 1914 of pneumonia at the Front in France where he was visiting Indian divisions . |
| 3 | His unfortunate appearance , and lack of education , was offset by a compelling personality , and in 1876 he embarked on an affair with a neighbour , the much younger Katherine Dyson . |
| 4 | In 1876 he decided to be an architect , the following year becoming articled to Basil Champneys [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | From 1873 to 1876 he acted as marine superintendent with Hargrove , Fergusson & Jackson , for whom he constructed both ships and machinery , striving always to achieve greater power , efficiency , and economy . |
| 6 | There was no hope for Nkrumah ; he had contracted cancer and on 27 April 1972 he died in a Bucharest hospital , aged 63 . |
| 7 | Throughout 1971 and 1972 he remained in Britain 's top three heavyweights , but was overlooked when the BBBC ordered a series of eliminators to decide the next British title challenger . |
| 8 | In the 1890s he participated in the reorganization of Argentina 's external debt and in the 1900s restored Argentina 's credit in London . |
| 9 | In the 1890s he turned against this whole programme in disgust , realizing that there was no likelihood of fossil evidence coming to light . |
| 10 | In 1933 he starred with Wallace Beery in The Bowery , which included a fight scene on a barge in which Beery landed the first blow . |
| 11 | His original ambition was to be a painter , and in 1933 he enrolled at Goldsmith 's College School of Art . |
| 12 | Crown lending was never a major part of Aaron 's business , however , and after 1169 he ceased to be a primary Crown lender , concentrating instead on building up his own vast financial network of agents and clients from his Lincoln base . |
| 13 | In July 1346 he landed in Normandy with an army of perhaps some 15,000 men . |
| 14 | In July 1583 he escaped to St Andrews , and set about destroying his tormentors or pardoning some in return for abject submission . |
| 15 | In 1872 he introduced at Victoria on the Metropolitan District Railway an automatic train-protection system whereby a red lens positioned in front of a white signal light was raised above it on actuation from an electrical contact only when the section ahead was clear . |
| 16 | Between 1863 and 1872 he worked as a demonstrator at the Pharmaceutical Society under Professor John Attfield ; he also obtained a B.Sc. |
| 17 | While employed at St Stephen 's , he lived within the parish of St Margaret , Westminster , and he was active in parish life at least from 1522 onwards ; during 1552–4 he served as one of the churchwardens . |
| 18 | In 1881 he moved to London in an unsuccessful endeavour to enter journalism . |
| 19 | The Intel 80860 he described as a good implementation of a poorly thought-out microprocessor architecture . |
| 20 | In 1639–40 he acted as a secret courier , disguised as a commercial traveller , for the English opposition leaders in their clandestine — if not treasonable — correspondence with the Scottish Covenanters . |
| 21 | For a brief period after his accession Henry VII allowed the old Exchequer system to revive ; but from about 1493 he reverted to the methods of his immediate predecessors . |
| 22 | At the age of 12 he went on holiday to Butlins in Ayr with his parents and had his first taste of competitive success . |
| 23 | At the age of twenty-one he moved to London , working briefly as a civil engineer before joining the Admiralty hydrographers ' department . |
| 24 | About 1630 he moved to Stourbridge , living at Stourbridge High Street at the ‘ brickhouse ’ , the later Talbot Hotel . |
| 25 | In 1801 he took as a partner Anthony Newman , and was himself replaced by John Darling in 1809 . |
| 26 | In January 1801 he wrote to Charles James Fox , the Leader of the Whig Opposition , enclosing the two volumes of Lyrical Ballads , and asking him to read Michael and The Brothers , not for their poetic merit but because they illustrate ‘ the weakening of the bonds of domestic feeling among the poor ’ . |
| 27 | In 1801 he participated in the expedition to Egypt , and served in Hanover in 1805 and at the taking of Copenhagen two years later . |
| 28 | Appointed in April 1720 he had to be threatened with dismissal by James Craggs [ q.v. ] , the secretary of state , before he would go . |
| 29 | In 1808 he returned to Wavertree . |
| 30 | In 1808 he moved into the Wordsworths ' new house , Allan Bank , together with his two sons , and after the usual long preliminaries embarked on his new periodical venture , The Friend . |