Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience in Gentle Jack and the speech that caused all the problems in that play stood him in good stead . |
| 2 | I was selling houses and apartments on a commission basis , and I think that my English accent stood me in good stead . |
| 3 | As for the computer password , on the other hand , this reviewer guessed it in one and had to wait twenty-odd pages for Casaubon to catch up . |
| 4 | Yet I found that the breadth of my Scottish education stood me in good stead in the work of assessing and editing material from the whole agenda of a serious newspaper . |
| 5 | Erm you know any anyone we met and and spoke to I think some people held us in some kind of suspicion , but a lot of people were glad er to have the er you know have the company and erm that were were available to them . |
| 6 | I suppose that simple precept from that old foreman stood me in good stead for thirty odd years , until now . ’ |
| 7 | So although we know this today , very few people knew it in nineteen thirteen , and er , nobody knew it before the turn of the century . |
| 8 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 9 | The old man told me in this connection : |
| 10 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 11 | Beattie 's outstanding record as a dedicated social worker stood him in good stead at the ‘ Diplock ’ tribunal and partly explained the presence of a total of twenty-four persons who came to testify on his behalf . |
| 12 | The other old nomes watched her in horrified silence . |
| 13 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 14 | Sartorial details aside , such efforts stood him in good stead with Disney . |
| 15 | During this period of voluntary ostracism from social contact with those around him , Mr Thesiger 's fondness for out-of-doors sports and predilection for the simple life stood him in good stead . |
| 16 | The superior numbers of the Imperial army stood them in good stead : within a few minutes , Dara 's forces had broken through the rebels ' artillery and put to flight the infantry . |
| 17 | A few hours earlier Mrs Valerie Williams was robbed of her firm 's wages on a quite road in South Wales when masked men overtook her in this stolen car and forced her to stop and then rammed her vehicle from behind with another car . |
| 18 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 19 | His previous experience stood him in good stead . |
| 20 | Tamar found the side-saddle strange at first , but her previous experience stood her in good stead . |
| 21 | Moreover , the self-defined small scale nature of these projects placed them in marked contrast to the first seven Urban Development Corporations announced in Britain in the 1980s in London Docklands , Merseyside ( see chapters 2 and 3 ) , Sheffield , the Black Country , Teesside , Tyne and Wear and Greater Manchester , all of which received over £100 million in financial support . |
| 22 | His favourite horse was shot and draped over the grave and a dreamer bell was suspended over the chief 's body , to ring in the wind until a white man stole it in 1874 . |
| 23 | About four years later all three children told us in private conversations that they were missing contact with their respective fathers . |
| 24 | Against the implacable opposition of its lord , Aylesbury failed utterly to hold on to the corporate status granted it in 1554 . |
| 25 | To Selborne it was no more nor less than " robbing the church " and many Unionists saw it in such simple terms . |
| 26 | And the third was as a confessor , because he knew that many souls valued him in this work . |
| 27 | The hands that normally give the despatch box a confident caress gripped it in white-knuckled nervousness . |
| 28 | The guy in the black leather took it in both hands . |
| 29 | The richest sources exploited today are the mines of Colombia , where the Spanish conquerors encountered them in 1537 . |
| 30 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |