Example sentences of "[num] he [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he became secretary to the British Association seismological committee for study of earth tremors and the following year he and the seismologist John Milne [ q.v. ] , newly returned from his pioneering work in Japan , became joint secretaries of its newly established subcommittee for seismological investigation , until Davison retired from this position in 1899 . |
| 2 | In 1895 he became gas engineer and in 1900 transferred to a similar post on the Midland Railway at Derby , where he became assistant works manager in 1905 , works manager in 1907 , and chief mechanical engineer in 1909 . |
| 3 | From 1583 he took part in the administration of Aldersgate ward in the City of London , where he lived ; from 1606 he was the ward 's senior common councilman . |
| 4 | After convalescence abroad in 1885 he became incumbent of White Roding , Essex , and was invited to serve as consultant on a supplement to Hymns Ancient and Modern , published in 1889 . |
| 5 | In 1885 he became university lecturer in advanced invertebrate morphology and five years later he became superintendent of the University Museum of Zoology . |
| 6 | The former communist Imamali Rahmonov , Chair of the Tajik Supreme Soviet since the collapse of a pro-Islamic coalition government in November [ see p. 39192 ] , entered the city , and on Dec. 12 he began peace talks with Islamic opposition forces . |
| 7 | But in 1620 he entered Crown service , as one of the two deputy chamberlains in the receipt of the Exchequer . |
| 8 | In 1867 he became minister to the Borough New synagogue , south London , a post which he combined with a variety of Jewish and non-Jewish charitable and philanthropic endeavours , whilst busying himself also as a prison visitor . |
| 9 | In 1867 he joined Deacon & Gaskill , alkali manufacturers at Widnes . |
| 10 | In 1867 he introduced hotel coupons which were exchanged for meals and accommodation at hotels with whom Cook had arrangements . |
| 11 | From 1985 he began evening classes and within three years had passed two O-levels and two A-levels . |
| 12 | In 1985 he became Commissioner for Information , Communication and Culture |
| 13 | For years he was the dean of biology , and in 1985 he became founder-chairman of Vietnam 's Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Centre . |
| 14 | In 1834 he became vicar of Sutton Waldron , north-east Dorset , a small parish and one of the most backward agriculturally in that county . |
| 15 | In 1780 he left politics to devote himself to agricultural improvements and amateur science on his Belmont estate in Perthshire . |
| 16 | 640 he stood sponsor to King Cynegils at his baptism and joined with Cynegils in giving Dorchester-on-Thames to the missionary bishop , Birinus ( HE 111 , 7 ) ( see above , p. 48 ) . |
| 17 | Then in 1879 he sought affiliation with the University of Durham ; but objections by the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music prevented his developing stronger links with either university . |
| 18 | President Andrés Rodríguez calmed speculation over a possible imminent " presidential coup " when on June 22 he swore allegiance to the new Constitution in a solemn ceremony before the Congress . |
| 19 | In 1825 he became locomotive superintendent , and also manager and contractor , for the Stockton and Darlington , Britain 's first public railway . |
| 20 | During 1775 he continued prison visiting in England and expanded his enquiries to the continent . |
| 21 | In 1894 he became teacher of singing at the Royal Academy of Music , and many famous singers were his pupils . |
| 22 | On April 26 he attributed responsibility to four executives of the national oil company ( PEMEX ) and to five local officials — the mayor of Guadalajara , Enrique Dau Flores ( who had " temporarily " resigned on April 24 ) , the Jalisco Secretary of State for Urban Development , Aristeo Mejías , and three local water company officials . |
| 23 | In 1711 he produced handwriting plates included in Penmanship in its Utmost Beauty and Extent ( 1731 ) , by George Bickham [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | After the Restoration in 1660 he took part in a scheme for establishing a godly commonwealth in the Palatinate and maintained his connection with the Durham Baptists , while practising as an apothecary in London . |
| 25 | Robson 's work was influential , partly because in 1874 he published School Architecture , a book in which he illustrated a number of London Board schools . |
| 26 | In 1654 he became chaplain of Eton College , a post he held until he was ejected in 1660 . |
| 27 | Not so very long after this incident Pilate was removed from Jerusalem , and in A D thirty six he committed suicide . |
| 28 | In 1929 he asked permission to introduce the semi-circle at Highbury , but was refused . |
| 29 | In 1924 he published work on the parachor , a function of surface tension which could give information about the structure of molecules . |
| 30 | In 1979 he became Labour 's spokesman on agriculture . |