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 | He thought his best period was the pictures he did in the Thirties , when he worked in France ’ . |
| 4 | Clinton needed five stitches in an eye cut he suffered in the first round , when he also badly displaced the knuckles on his left hand . |
| 5 | The roles he played in the glossy pages of The New Yorker , for instance , were almost parodies of gracious living and social superiority . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A beautiful odalisque by Matisse , such as Torso with a Jug , typical of the work he did in the 1920s and 1930s , will bring £35,000 or more . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt had little sympathy for the Arabs he painted in the mid-19th century : ‘ Speaking generally I regard these people as the most detestable in existence . ’ |
| 12 | During the war he served in the Italian campaign , won an MC at Anzio , and ended the war in Burma . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Patrick Taylor has visited the 400 places he describes in the pocket-sized The Gardener 's Guide to Britain ( Pavilion , £9.99 ) . |
| 15 | Israeli and world leaders paid tribute to Begin who was buried alongside fellow-fighters in the Irgun Zva'i Leumi , the Jewish guerrilla group he commanded in the 1940s . |
| 16 | The self pride he showed in the first two books is shown to be the very cause of his gradual destruction and inner hell . |
| 17 | All day he lay in the dark windowless room , semi-conscious . |
| 18 | The maths he produced in the six short years before his death in 1920 is treasured for its originality . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The tackle he made in the first few minutes when Giggs was straight through on Beeny must be enough to get him Young Player of the Year . |
| 23 | The landslide he had in the electoral college last November obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote . |
| 24 | Near the close , Holding began to lay about him and was dropped off a skyer ; next morning he continued in the same vein to ensure his team a first innings lead , and ensure , too , that Bob Willis 's Test career would end on an unhappy note as it was he who took most of the stick . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Maloney said he and Lewis were having ‘ serious discussions ’ — in other words , a row — over Lewis 's tunnel-visioned determination to force the man he beat in the 1988 Olympic final back into the ring next April . |
| 28 | Maloney said he and Lewis were having ‘ serious discussions ’ over Lewis 's determination to force the man he beat in the 1988 Olympic final back into the ring next April . |
| 29 | Had a look at the records last night and saw that Sterland scored 5 goals in the Div II championship and 7 in the 20-odd matches he played in the Div I Championship . |
| 30 | I find Lubin 's fingerwork in faster movements absolutely sparkling ; and the slightly more flowing tempi he adopts in the slower movements are more to my taste . |