Verbs
- accepted surrender
- accompanied
- acquired
- acted
- acted on recommendations by the Public Health Enquiry held
- addressed an assembly of about 60,000 people
- addressed Bletchley Park staff
- adjusted her hat in the reflection
- advanced the science of gold thread manufacture
- affixed his declaration disowning Charles II as King to the cross
- amalgamated
- apologised
- apothecary
- appeared
- assassinated
- assembled
- assisted
- attended
- attended a housewarming
- attended school
- attended university
- at this site, directed the Allied Expeditionary Forces against Fortress Europe, 6 June 1944
- At this site in 1928 began his pioneering studies into the chemistry of giant molecules
- baptised
- baptized
- baptized near
- based at this hospital
- beat Nicolas Mahut
- became a member of The Selector
- befriended
- befriended and cared for prostitutes
- began
- began a clothing business
- began near
- beheaded
- bequeathed
- besieged Calais in 1347
- billeted
- birdied 16 and 17 to tie Gary Player and Dow Finsterwald for first place
- birdied 17 and 18 to win his second Masters title by one stroke
- born
- born near
- bought
- bought the estate
- 'Brendan Behan's New York' was written in
- broadcast the first television programme in Great Britain
- built
- built a bridge
- built a coal and timber wharf
- built aircraft
- built a suite of offices
- built bicycles
- built cars
- built for as the Red House
- built his home near
- built on
- built one of Britain's earliest petrol driven vehicles
- built Preston’s first steam-powered cotton mill
- built the Castle
- built the first Norwich Office of the Excise
- built The Great Eastern
- built the thatched "Ashley Cottages"
- built this Shirehall
- built under
- built University Church
- buried
- by
- by order of, the Confession of Faith was drawn up
- called
- called to Dodge City in 1876 and established law and order in a few years
- came here to discuss
- came to dine
- captured
- carried
- carried near to death
- carved
- chorister
- christened
- collected
- commanded
- commanded the town's forces
- commemorated
- commenced scientific valve experiments
- commissioned
- completed her three novels Over To Candleford, Candleford Green and Still Glides The Stream
- completed his pioneering studies on the frequencies of X-rays emitted from the elements
- completed research at Harvard on his translation of Eugene Onegin while residing here
- composed
- conceived his design of the Crystal Palace
- conducted experiments
- conducted the Pittsburgh Orchestra
- connected in an unknown way
- contributed greatly to America's victory program for wartime production
- controlled
- convalesced
- created
- created Blandford's first museum
- created mosaics
- created The Bournville Building Estate
- created the ska phenomenon
- crossed on his way to his execution
- crowned
- damaged the church when he made an entry into the town in 1649, through a breach in the town wall close by
- debuted "Blithe Spirit"
- dedicated
- defended the town
- demonstrated
- denied entry to King Charles I
- designed
- designed All Saints Church
- designed the Corn Exchange
- designed Worcester Bridge
- destroyed by fire
- destroyed in The Blitz
- developed and built program-controlled computers
- developed manganese steel
- developed the first x-ray spectrometer
- developed the machine belt manufacturing firm of J H Fenner and Co
- developed the micro-corneal lens at his practice
- devised the restoration of the country's independence
- dictated "The Order of the Strata"
- died
- died in the Brighton Bombing
- died near
- dined
- directed
- Directed the fortification of the City gates and towers
- directed the Gaiety Theatre
- discovered
- discovered Boyle's Law
- discovered electro-dynamic forces
- discovered Sooty
- discovered the electron
- discovered the fundamental law for electric current
- discovered the Solitary Wave
- distinguished
- donated
- donated land
- dreamt he was
- drew the pond in the garden which featured in the Tale of Peter Rabbit
- drew up the first public temperence pledge
- dwelt
- eagled the 13th hole
- edited
- educated
- eloped
- encamped with his Royalist Army
- endowed
- ensured
- entered England through this port
- entered the city
- entertained King Charles II
- erected
- erected a drinking fountain
- erected a gate or bar
- erected the first house in Bournemouth
- erected the first preaching house
- erected the original motte and bailey castle on this site
- escaped his enemies after the battle of Worcester
- established
- established a business
- established a ferry service
- established an academy
- established an infirmary for sick children
- established an iron foundry
- established a studio
- established Britain’s first African Caribbean Carnival
- established his divisional headquarters
- established his foundry
- established Salisbury Museum
- established the Cavendish Laboratory
- established the first antique shop on Portobello Road
- established the first large meat-packing house in Toronto
- established the Free Age Press
- established the Royal Marine Library
- established the Wright Music Co.
- excavated
- exchanged the first radio message across water
- executed
- experimented
- exposed the Davenport Brothers
- expounded
- facade
- fatally wounded
- father owned
- feasted
- fell
- felled
- fell in the river
- filmed
- filmed Leeds Bridge
- finally left in 1967
- first appeared on the stage
- first demonstrated the incandescent light bulb at a public lecture
- first exploded
- first gigged
- first laid to rest
- first met
- first projected a moving picture
- first recorded
- first used gas-lighting
- first wove Kidderminster Carpet
- forgave the sins of those who contributed to the building of a bridge
- for many years this cottage was the summer residence of
- formed
- formed a band
- former actor in Heaphy's company
- Formerly the main entrance to
- fought in a skirmish
- found a haven
- founded
- founded a charity school
- founded a company
- founded a free public library
- founded a hospital for 6 poor widows
- founded a hospital for aged or infirm men
- founded an almshouse
- founded an independent Benedictine monastery
- founded a school
- founded Britain's aircraft seaplane and flying boat industry
- founded by his will the Free Grammar School that later became the Perse School
- founded Cheltenham Infant School
- founded Cooke's Hospital
- founded Enmore School
- founded in Silver Street
- founded Leeds Grammar School which later occupied
- founded Lotus Engineering Co
- founded Mission Church
- founded Monte de Piete a charitable pawn office
- founded Motown Records
- founded Saint Edward’s School
- founded St Mark's Hospital
- founded St Paul's School
- founded the chief office of the London penny post
- founded The Club
- founded the Collegiate Church
- founded the congregation
- founded the Cork Ballet Company and School in this building
- founded the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association
- founded the first known building society in the world
- founded the first of the Lewis's department stores
- founded the first philosophical school of the world
- founded the First Provincial School of Anatomy
- founded the Little Angel Theatre
- founded the Manchester & Salford Adult Deaf & Dumb Benevolent Association
- founded the Mercury Theatre
- founded the priory of Saint Michael
- founded The Queen's Technical Training Institute for Women
- founded the Round Table Movement and owned Langford's Restaurant
- founded the the chief office of the London penny post
- founded this hospital
- founded what is now the Royal National Institute for Deaf People
- found her vocation as a writer for the very young
- Founding Member of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
- found the planet Uranus
- frequented
- frequently visited
- fried
- from this south easterly aspect made a breach in the town wall which allowed his troops to enter the town
- funded
- gave
- gave a lookout
- gave a public reading of "David Copperfield"
- gave birth to John Lennon
- gave his first London concert
- gave his heart and life to God
- gave money and timber
- gave selected readings from his many works
- gave the original pavilion to the club
- gave the world's first demonstration of street lighting by coal gas, from a retort
- gave this building to the People
- gave this building to the village
- gave this cottage
- gifted
- granted a charter
- grew the Bramley Apple Tree from a pip
- grew up
- guest at the villa
- had a bookshop
- had a coffee shop
- had a grainstore
- had a lease of a meadow
- had an evangelical conversion
- had a photography shop
- had a printing shop
- had a printing works
- had a shop here
- had a warehouse
- had a workshop
- had business premises
- had her fossil shop
- had Her Secretariat
- had her studio
- had his consulting rooms
- had his first shop
- had his home
- had his laboratory
- had his London showrooms
- had his museum
- had his music shop Beethoven House here
- had his observatory
- had his office
- had his original draper's shop here
- had his studio
- had his studio near
- had his works
- had its offices
- had rooms here
- had the first contact lens only practice
- had works performed
- hanged
- hanged near
- haunts
- headquartered
- headquarters when he with a force of 2000 men attacked Birmingham on Easter Monday 3rd April 1643
- he and his wife Josephine spent their winters here for over two decades
- held a Council of War
- held 'a satisfactory reading with the people'
- held editorial meetings
- held his wedding reception
- held house parties
- held its first meeting
- held its first two meetings
- held its sittings
- held meetings
- held their first flower show
- held the King of France captive
- helped
- helped preserve Old Bank House with Coleshill Civic Society
- Here in Joyce's imagination was born
- here perfected the first practical typewriter in September 1869
- hit his first home run as a professional near
- hospitalised
- imagined
- immortalised Pablo Fanque in the song Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite
- implanted
- imprisoned
- improved the cultural facilities for Clarks employees and other Streetonians
- inhabited this "dream-come-true" cottage
- injured
- inspired
- in this workshop he painted "Guernica"
- invented
- invented gas-lighting
- invented the first steam-engine
- invented the first successful pneumatic tyre
- invested his son
- is perceived to have lived and died here
- jailed for preaching the gospel
- jammed
- jumped over the wall
- killed
- killed near
- laid out grounds
- laid out his original cricket ground
- laid the foundation stone near
- landed
- landscaped
- last performed
- launched London's first antiques market
- leapt on horseback across the then narrower road cutting to escape his pursuers
- leased
- lectured
- led a rebellion
- left
- left a cup and sword
- left land
- liberated
- lies
- liked to sit and write at these steps
- lived
- lived and died in this house
- lived near
- located
- lodged
- lodged here in the 1920s
- lodged many "beautiful foreign ladies"
- lodged near
- lost the middleweight title
- made a declaration
- made a Freeman of the City
- made a house on this site his London home and studio
- made an announcement
- made a successful descent by a parachute from a balloon which ascended from
- made experiments with an air pump designed by his assistant Robert Hooke
- made her debut
- made the first locomotive
- made the first manned balloon ascent
- made Tunbridge ware
- managed
- manufactured
- manufactured hats
- manufactured locks and safes
- manufactured "Winner" brand bicycles
- marched
- marked
- married
- martyred
- martyred near
- master
- measured the one mile points along the roads from Cambridge
- member
- mentioned
- mentioned in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- met Charles Stewart Rolls
- met Frederick Henry Royce
- met frequently with literary friends and hill-walking friends
- met here
- met her future husband
- met his future wife Eva Leale
- met his untimely end
- met James Boswell
- met Michael Marks
- met regularly
- met Samuel Johnson
- met Tom Spencer
- minister
- mortally wounded
- moved to
- murdered
- murdered his estranged wife Mildred
- mustered Parliamentary troops
- named
- named after elm trees
- named after inn
- named after public house
- named after short-lived monastery
- named after the castle
- named after the church
- named after the quay
- noted
- observed the periodicity of the star ALGOL and discovered the variation of δ CEPHEI
- occupied
- oed
- once spent their summer holidays
- opened
- opened a boot and shoe shop
- opened a medical school
- opened an early Methodist preaching room
- opened a store
- opened a workshop
- opened the first Health Food Store in the United Kingdom
- opened the first Norwich office of the Excise
- opened the first printing office in Norwich near
- opened the first Waitrose shop
- opened the original shop which later became Huntley & Palmers
- opened the second Methodist Preaching House
- operated
- operated a sound system
- operated the ferry
- ordered commissioners to assemble for the revision of the liturgy
- ordered the building of the Great Tower
- organist
- originated and played the game of Lawn Tennis
- owned
- owned a house
- owned a photographic shop and studio
- owned a shop near
- owned Hey Green House
- owned land
- owned the generator
- owned the mill
- owned this factory
- painted
- painted his famous picture, "The Boyhood of Raleigh"
- painted "On The Shore, Bonchurch"
- participated
- passed through
- penned the immortal poem, "A Visit From Saint Nicholas", (T'was The Night Before Christmas)
- performed
- planned modern Solihull
- planted an elm
- played
- played a prominent role in the 18th century development of Georgian Limerick, known as Newtown Pery
- played at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton on 27 occasions
- played their first show here 15 May 1960 as the Silver Beetles
- portrait medallion
- portrayed
- practised
- practised from chambers
- practised law
- practised medicine
- practised orthopaedic surgery
- preached
- preached near
- Prebendary
- presented Gobshites
- presented to the town in November 1938 the river meadows
- presented to the town the public library
- printed England's first provincial newspaper
- printed two of his earliest works
- probably lived
- proclaimed Regent by the Jacobite Army near here
- produced Waterford Glass
- professor
- Professor of Greek
- progress was checked
- provided
- published in 1789 his autobiography on suffering the barbarity of slavery, which paved the way for its abolition
- published prints and guidebooks
- published the 'All The Year Round' magazine
- published the first edition of Thomas Paine's revolutionary pamphlet Common Sense
- published the first number of the Norwich Post near
- purchased
- raised a regiment of foot
- raised his standard
- raised the first troop of Gloucestershire Yeomanry
- ran a bank
- ran a bookshop
- ran a school
- ran the Bulls Head Inn
- ran The Dancing Club
- ran the first school in England for the education of deaf & dumb
- ran the oar-driven ferry
- ran the Rapier Players repertory company
- read
- read a paper before the Canadian Institute
- realized William H Tatum IV's dream to to find the Titanic
- rebuilt
- received
- Received her secondary education here
- received part of his education
- received the first transatlantic radio signals
- reconsolidated
- reconstructed a building called Wandle Cottage
- recorded
- recreated Shakespeare's Globe
- rector
- redeveloped
- rendered service from the garage
- renovated
- re-opened
- reputedly arrested
- reputed to have stayed at a hostelry
- resided
- residence of
- Residence of Spike's father Leo and grandfather Sgt William Milligan
- resident DJ
- rested in a coffin
- restored
- restored to the parishioners
- retired
- rode
- ruled the Cavendish hotel
- sailed from
- sat
- saved the City Road Basin
- scored
- scored 31 on the second nine to win his third Masters title
- scored rounds of 69-68-68-70 to win by six strokes and become the first four-time winner of The Masters
- sculpted
- sculptor of Bicentennial Washington
- secretly married
- seed
- sentenced
- served
- served his apprenticeship
- served his apprenticeship as a photographer
- set foot
- set forth
- set much of his novel A Confederacy of Dunces in the French Quarter around here
- set sail
- settled
- set up
- set up business
- sheltered
- shot
- sited
- site from which Chaucer's Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales set off in April 1386
- sketched
- sold for half a crown by her husband
- sold this house
- sought spiritual help
- spared the lives of The Burghers of Calais in 1347
- spectator
- speed
- spent a night at the house
- spent his active life and died
- spent his boyhood
- spent his childhood
- spent some time working in this hospital
- spoke
- Springfield native Seuss memorialized Mulberry Stree in the first book he authored 'And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street'
- started business from a workshop near
- started his aircraft component business
- stayed
- stayed in Weymouth
- stepped
- stood
- stood near
- stood without shoes on a market day and denounced the City of Lichfield
- stopped off en route for America
- stopped to take ale
- stopped to water his horse
- studied
- studied the galaxy
- sub-librarian
- supplied canal barges from his chandlery
- surrendered
- surveyed angles on the church tower
- surveyed routes
- sworn in as a constable
- taught
- taught mathematics
- taught near
- The Ballet Club and The Ballet Rambert
- the band performed here under the name U2 for the first time
- the "Motown Sound" was created on this site
- This lightwell is part of the burial ground of
- took a set of iconic images that graced the covers of the first two Specials albums
- took cuttings from the tree
- took place near
- took refuge
- took tea
- took the waters
- traded
- trained
- trained in the gymnasium
- transmitted
- transmitted Britains first official radio broadcast
- trial of the murderers of Ellen Hanley The Collen Bawn took place here
- tried
- trod the boards
- undefeated
- unveiled
- used as a hunting lodge
- used the Cornhill Standard
- used the experience of his father having been imprisoned here for debt in 1824 as the Marshalsea setting for his novel Little Dorrit
- Used these rotative beam engines and pumps which were a key part of his sewage system that rid London of cholera and typhoid
- used this site as the first commercial transatlantic wireless station
- used to sit
- vanquished
- visited
- visited Australia in 1920-1921 during a series of lecture tours on Spiritualism
- waited for a friend who did not turn up
- walked
- walked past
- was
- was a lecturer
- was a patient
- was a pupil
- was a shipbroker and timber merchant
- was a student
- was a water mill
- was beaten
- was bequeathed this house
- was Birmingham's first Member of Parliament
- was bombed
- was born twenty miles from Birmingham in Stratford-upon-Avon
- was brought
- was built near
- was burned at the stake near
- was burnt
- was christened at the nearby Norwegian Church
- was completed
- was consecrated the first bishop of the church in America
- was crowned King
- was curator of the Whitby Museum
- was denied entry
- was destroyed by a bomb
- was detained
- was director of the observatory
- was discovered
- was educated
- was entertained
- was entertained as a prisoner of war
- was erected
- was erected near
- was first made near
- was first woman mayor of
- was found
- was founded
- was Headmaster
- was his first workshop in Paris
- was housed
- was hung in chains near
- was in protective custody
- was inspired to paint
- was inspired to use Whitby as the setting of part of his world-famous novel Dracula
- was inspired to write Canada's national song
- was inspired to write her first novel published in 1857 under the name of George Eliot
- was interred
- was landlord
- was Librarian
- was licencee
- was Mayor
- was Mayor and councillor
- was ordained priest
- was ordinary Professor for mathematics
- was preserved
- was produced
- was Professor of Natural Philosophy
- was proprietor
- was published
- was put to death near
- was raised
- was received
- was reputedly born at No 7 Hoey's Court (now demolished) about 100 feet north west of this spot
- was situated
- was situated close to
- was the last Master
- was vanquished
- watched the rain
- went to school
- were Architects
- were installed
- were manufactured
- were struck
- What he called "The exact point of becoming U2" occurred here
- with his army of 5000 Barons and Londoners defeated royalist forces of twice that size under Henry III on the Downs northwest of Lewes
- worked
- worked near
- worshipped
- wrote
- wrote about
- wrote 'A Streetcar Named Desire' here
- wrote 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater'
- wrote 'Dial M For Murder'
- wrote Dracula whilst working at the Lyceum
- wrote her first novel, Alexander's Bridge
- wrote his autobiography, Black Boy
- wrote his PhD thesis
- wrote "Jumping Frog of Calaveras" here from notes made at Angels Camp Tavern
- wrote Middlemarch
- wrote part of "David Copperfield"
- wrote "Revelations of Divine Love"
- wrote six of his principal works
- wrote The Good Companions
- wrote the Mayor of Casterbridge based on this house
- wrote 'The Planets'
- wrote the poem "The Deil's Awa' Wi' Th'Exciseman"
- wrote 'You Only Live Twice'
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