Example sentences of "in [adj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In vain he hoped to carve out an alternative career as a journalist and cricket writer . |
| 2 | ‘ In vain he tries everything he can think of to try and quieten the child . |
| 3 | But in private he had already told Lord Home that he should prepare to succeed him , and the ‘ customary processes ’ duly resulted in Home being chosen . |
| 4 | In public Charles accepted the revised status quo with good grace ; in private he blamed Diana . |
| 5 | But in private he affected too much modesty , and before 1922 had been junior to too many of them . |
| 6 | In private he got on very well with Lloyd George , but he never hid his doubts ; in 1917 he told Unionists that Lloyd George was a man who has the defects of his qualities " , and told his audience that he was saying no more than he had told the Prime Minister to his face ; when in 1920 he was told that Unionists would rather hear him attack Lloyd George than defend him , he told this story to the Prime Minister too . |
| 7 | Jessica had exploded publicly , but in private he might not be able to summon up the words . |
| 8 | What was much more important in the rise of MacGregor , he said , was that in private he was genial company and , more importantly , his ‘ decency ’ . |
| 9 | In public he was unctuous . |
| 10 | In public he paid handsome tribute to Modigliani , but the truth of their private relations is more tangled . |
| 11 | In public he put it all on unemployment . |
| 12 | In public he could be magisterial . |
| 13 | If a person is searched in public he can not be required to remove anything other than his coat , jacket or gloves . |
| 14 | In public he expressed great contempt for the system , but he made use of it to an immoderate degree , particularly by bestowing honours — undue honours — on the least worthy of his personal friends and particularly if the suggestion was made by anyone close to him . |
| 15 | He was ruthless , impatient , and , though in public he seemed self-effacing , he was only too aware of his power and the impact he had on people . |
| 16 | In public he was urbane , and no one could have guessed that their presence here together was dictated by anything other than professional considerations . |
| 17 | No doubt , having aired these feelings well in public he will be exerting pressure behind the scenes to ensure there is no further need to repeat them in open audience . |
| 18 | And he says while it may be understandable that Channel 4 is reluctant to see so much of their dirty linen washed in public he argues that it is in the public interest that this should happen . |
| 19 | In public he continued to argue that Nato 's conventional forces were needed essentially to handle a small incident — the most likely kind of military crisis in his view . |
| 20 | Jim would n't have let anyone in umless he knew them . |
| 21 | In brief he has humbugged us . |
| 22 | In brief he said that the performance we produced against Chelsea was as good as that against Arsenal earlier in the year but the result was completely different , i.e a 4–1 win vs a 2–1 defeat . |
| 23 | This will not prevent an equitable interest passing to the buyer but the court will not grant specific performance unless the seller 's lien can be fully protected and until paid in full he is entitled to vote the shares as he thinks will best protect his interest . |
| 24 | But he warned that if pensioners on income support and others in real need were not compensated in full he would vote against the VAT imposition at the committee stage of the Finance Bill or when Peter Lilley , the Social Security Secretary , makes his announcement uprating benefits in the autumn . |
| 25 | But he warned that if pensioners on income support and others in real need were not compensated in full he would vote against the VAT imposition at a later stage . |
| 26 | In short he 's something of a crossover artist ; he clearly feels as comfortable borrowing from the past as he does with a more modern approach . |
| 27 | In short he 'd heard of the last minute vacancy a sort of electoral bucket shop familiar to Hexham Conservatives through Tony Blair , a friend through Cranston 's sideline as a Labour front bench trade and industry adviser . |
| 28 | Property ( other than a legal estate in land ) may be transferred , and binding promises may be made to an infant , but in general he is unable to make a binding disposition of his property or to make binding promises to others . |
| 29 | Perhaps in general he should ease up , get a little lower in the mix . |
| 30 | In general he characterised the collecting of Old Masters in Spain as ‘ serious , long-term , not speculative ’ . |