Example sentences of "the [noun] ' company " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was apprenticed on 13 November 1673 to John Dunnell ( or Dunning ) , a freeman of the Turners ' Company . |
| 2 | Marshall became a freeman of the Turners ' Company on 2 December 1685 . |
| 3 | The second son , William , became a master of the Musicians ' Company , and the third , Charles , played cricket for Middlesex and England . |
| 4 | The 470th Master of the Clothworkers ' Company Sir Peter Gadsden , a former Lord Mayor of London ; and the Master of the Clockmakers ' Company Mr Alan Henn , entertained guests to ‘ A Shropshire Dinner ’ at Salters Hall , in the City of London . |
| 5 | The Clothworkers ' Company , whose first royal Charter was granted by Henry VIII in 1528 , is the oldest of the London Guilds . |
| 6 | He was educated at Bridgnorth School , and then apprenticed to a London clothworker , becoming a freeman in the Clothworkers ' Company of London in 1541 or 1542 ( and its master in 1559 ) . |
| 7 | During the 1650s he served as master of the Clothworkers ' Company and an assistant of the Levant Company . |
| 8 | In 1610–11 the Hospital , and in 1612 the Clothworkers ' Company , decided to obtain a comprehensive survey of their London estates . |
| 9 | At the expiry of his term he became free of the Clothworkers ' Company on 7 August 1771 . |
| 10 | In 1875 he was awarded an exhibition in physical science newly created by the Clothworkers ' Company ; in the following year he was awarded an entrance scholarship at Christ 's College , Cambridge . |
| 11 | Once in London , he worked with James Asperne , of the European Magazine , Thomas Hurst , of Longman 's , and perhaps Thomas Tegg [ q.v. ] , who witnessed Wilson 's admission to the Clothworkers ' Company 7 February 1810 . |
| 12 | [ Bookseller , 1 July 1868 ; City Press , 18 July 1868 ; archives of the Clothworkers ' Company ; parish registers of Kirkby Ravensworth , St Bartholomew the Less , and St George Bloomsbury . ] |
| 13 | He was trained in Norwich by an unknown master and in June 1629 moved to London , where he joined the Blacksmiths ' Company in 1631 . |
| 14 | In 1650 he returned to London with ‘ a great estate ’ , and in July of that year took his freedom of the Drapers ' Company and the Levant Company . |
| 15 | He was an alderman between 1659 and 1662 , sheriff in 1659 , and master of the Drapers ' Company in 1660 . |
| 16 | In addition , he was master of the Drapers ' Company ( 1708–9 ) , and active in the new South Sea Company as director ( 1711–13 ) and deputy governor ( 1712–13 ) . |
| 17 | Thornton was one of a group of manuscript chart-makers , who , since the early seventeenth century , had plied their trade as members of the Drapers ' Company in shops lining the streets and alleys down-river from the Tower of London . |
| 18 | As a full member of the Drapers ' Company and with apprentices indentured to him he produced manuscript and engraved charts . |
| 19 | Gascoyne 's last payment of dues to the Drapers ' Company was recorded in February 1689 and from this date his energies were directed mainly , but not exclusively , towards land surveying . |
| 20 | 1718 ) , a member of the Drapers ' Company since 1686 , as the eighth of Perry 's sequence of eighteen apprentices . |
| 21 | On completion of his articles , 3 April 1706 , Barclay was admitted a freeman of the Drapers ' Company , and in 1720 a liveryman . |
| 22 | Palmer was a freeman of the Drapers ' Company by patrimony and served as a member of the court ( 1792–5 ) . |
| 23 | Horace Walpole 's Letters , 1857–9 ( letter to Horace Mann of 6 October 1753 ) ; parish records at Westminster City Library ; records of the Drapers ' Company . ] |
| 24 | Rundell was made free of the Drapers ' Company by redemption on 15 May 1771 . |
| 25 | He was master of the Drapers ' Company of London in 1477–8 and in the latter year appears buying goods abroad for the royal wardrobe . |
| 26 | With the College of Arms hindering the grant of a new charter to the Upholders ' Company in 1722 , some London undertakers attempted to form their own livery company . |
| 27 | And now he 's back in one of the first ‘ recession vignette ’ commercials , selling all the directors ' company cars to maintain the work force 's wages . |
| 28 | he was apprenticed to his uncle , Thomas Stanton ( 1610–1674 ) , master of the Masons ' Company in 1660 and founder of the sculptors ' yard in the parish of St Andrew , Holborn , of which Stonecutter Street possibly marks the site . |
| 29 | William became free of the Masons ' Company in 1663 . |
| 30 | They had two sons , Thomas , who died at Leghorn , and Edward ( c .1681–1734 ) , who carried on the family business , becoming free of the Masons ' Company in 1702 and master in 1719 . |