raise a subscriptionの例文

• Colleagues within the Metropolitan Police raised a subscription to pay for Endacott s defence.
• The village recognised Jeston's achievements through raising a subscription for a stained-glassed window in his honour.
• The following year Sleaford townspeople began raising a subscription to construct a memorial in the town, eventually obtaining ?42.
• One of his last acts was to raise a subscription for the family of Richard Brinsley Peake, the dramatist.
• They raised a subscription for a wooden memorial to him, and in 1868, the people of Whitchurch subscribed again for a grandiloquent gravestone, still standing.
• A local vicar, either John Goulden in 1764 or Walter Harris in 1799, raised a subscription amongst the local population to replace the light on the church.
• He also relates there how Elliott befriended the lecturer and writer, Charles Reece Pemberton ( 1790 1840 ), and helped raise a subscription to support him on the breakdown of his health.
• The original lighthouse, known as the Round Tower, was built after the local vicar, either John Goulden in 1764 or Walter Harris in 1799, raised a subscription amongst the local population to replace the light on the top of St Andrews Church tower.
• He was Bampton lecturer in 1790, and in the same year played the major part in raising a subscription for John Uri, when he was discharged by the delegates of the Clarendon Press from his position as cataloguer of the Oriental manuscripts in the Bodleian Library.
• The farmers and gentry who organised the matches would raise a subscription for prize money . ?0 was a typical purse in the mid-nineteenth century, with about half going to the winner and the rest divided amongst the other runners according to how far they had got in the contest.
• Architect and dramatist John Vanbrugh raised a subscription, probably amongst members of the Kit-Kat Club, offering " to recover them " ( that is Betterton's company ), " therefore, to their due Estimation, a new Project was form'd of building them a stately Theatre in the Hay-Market, by Sir John Vanbrugh, for which he raised a Subscription of thirty Persons of Quality, at one hundred Pounds each, in Consideration whereof every Subscriber, for his own Life, was to be admitted to whatever Entertainments should be publickly perform'd there, without farther Payment for his Entrance ."
• Architect and dramatist John Vanbrugh raised a subscription, probably amongst members of the Kit-Kat Club, offering " to recover them " ( that is Betterton's company ), " therefore, to their due Estimation, a new Project was form'd of building them a stately Theatre in the Hay-Market, by Sir John Vanbrugh, for which he raised a Subscription of thirty Persons of Quality, at one hundred Pounds each, in Consideration whereof every Subscriber, for his own Life, was to be admitted to whatever Entertainments should be publickly perform'd there, without farther Payment for his Entrance ."