Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son . |
| 2 | Racing is often cruelly unfair , however , and while Top Class looks marvellous each-way value , Brittain 's dreams of victory could be wrecked by Golden Pheasant , a horse he trained in the early part of the season . |
| 3 | The roles he played in the glossy pages of The New Yorker , for instance , were almost parodies of gracious living and social superiority . |
| 4 | John Donne may have been a great frequenter of plays , but the catalogue of his books he produced in the early seventeenth century reveals no dramatist among the many contemporary English writers he assembled . |
| 5 | According to Ken he worked in the old Government Commission , which was tucked away in the back somewhere , until the present Government wound it up and the Cabinet Office took over its functions . |
| 6 | What we find in Guerrillas is a narrative of unfailing fascination which delivers to the senses of the reader a country very like the countries he knows in the real world : equally , his experience of that country is very like his experience of Naipaul 's India , in being rarely subdued by an awareness of the writer 's more deliberate meanings . |
| 7 | Twice Iorwerth 's warning signal had fetched them hastily to their pre-arranged places ; but on the first occasion Isambard had shunned the dripping copse and ridden away down the softer slopes eastward of Parfois , with his attendants strung out after him like beads on the string of darker green he left in the wet grass ; and on the second it had been a full-scale hunt with a dozen or more guests and very nearly fifty retainers , and Owen had held his hand , unwilling to venture against such odds . |
| 8 | During the war he served in the Italian campaign , won an MC at Anzio , and ended the war in Burma . |
| 9 | However , world troubles halted his immediate progress , and at the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service ( RNAS ) , beginning training on November 19 , 1914 . |
| 10 | Patrick Taylor has visited the 400 places he describes in the pocket-sized The Gardener 's Guide to Britain ( Pavilion , £9.99 ) . |
| 11 | All day he lay in the dark windowless room , semi-conscious . |
| 12 | During the service he sat in the front pew and listened to the preacher talking about the kind of woman she had been , and he knew it was n't like that , but the doctor had given some pills and he felt drowsy and numb , and illogically cheerful , as if he was slightly drunk , but at the stage where everything seems enlarged and unfamiliar . |
| 13 | you could n't do it , but he had every opportunity the other , the twin did to get through you know and he passed his City and Guilds , but Peter 's got on alright , the other son who 's got the factory , he 's , he 's busy got an electrical panels and all that he does , you know , he 's quite good and my other son he works , he used to work at Burnt Mill , and he now has moved to erm er Stansted , he works at Stansted he works in the big food depot , that used to be years ago and he works there , he 's been there ever since he left school , since except two , two years he had in the army you know for the conscription , but he 's been there erm ever since he was fourteen and he 's now about oh , forty something now he is , I 'm not quite sure of their ages , I get muddled up I 've got , eight , eight sons altogether , so , I 've got quite a family dear . |
| 14 | As a result of that demoralising experience Biggs was inactive for more than a year , a cut eye then leading to a stoppage against Francesco Damiani , the Italian he defeated in the Olympic final . |
| 15 | The landslide he had in the electoral college last November obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote . |
| 16 | And more : the political bureaucracy , the ‘ Nomenklatura ’ as Voslensky calls the three million or so people he numbers in the Soviet ruling class has the most powerful reason of self-interest for opposing ‘ revisionism ’ . |
| 17 | Musgrave owes his reputation to the role he played in the complicated and imperfectly understood politics of the western Anglo-Scottish borders during the 1530s . |
| 18 | He gave in that connection some instances from The Rock , which he described not so much as a play as a revue , a word he pronounced in the French manner . |
| 19 | The courage and dignity with which Arthur Ashe announced in New York that he has the AIDS virus , as a result of being given infected blood during one of the two major heart operations he underwent in the mid 1980's , was typical of one of the world 's most outstanding and gracious sportsmen . |
| 20 | The views he expressed in The Middle Way , published in 1938 , pointing towards a managed economy and the expansion of welfare services to achieve a national minimum , came close to expressing the essential ingredients of what both PEP and the Next Five Years Group wanted in the way of a change of direction by the National Government . |
| 21 | In the summer dawn he ran in the hollow ways where his great grandfather had humped the sacks of corn . |
| 22 | More recently he has produced a series of pieces decorated with routed fluting , such as the box he entered in the national box competition and a citrus fruit squeezer with a range of ribbed heads . |
| 23 | show exactly the worth he discerns in the Trojan conflict . |
| 24 | He was educated at the Edinburgh High School ( 1850–3 ) and as a schoolboy he joined in the geological rambles of his brother Archibald and John Young , the future professor of natural history at Glasgow University . |
| 25 | He had a number of scenes reshot because he did n't like the way he looked in the original scenes , and by the time he had finished hacking up the picture , it was a complete mess . |
| 26 | He does not reveal which way he voted in the subsequent secret ballot on the issue at the 1972 Conservative Party conference when Mr Powell 's amendment was defeated by 1,721 to 736 votes . |
| 27 | Both the North Korean and Cuban governments reportedly offered Honecker refuge but as of the end of the year he remained in the Chilean embassy . |
| 28 | The first goal he scored in the famous Burnley game was really something special , he lobs the goalie from miles out . |
| 29 | More important than either of these were Nnamdi Azikiwe 's West African Pilot , started in 1937 , and a series of other papers he launched in the succeeding years . |
| 30 | In fact , for a time he saw in the New Order in France a possible source of ideas which he could implement in the construction of his New Order ( Nizam-i Cedit ) in Turkey . |