Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between Piccadilly and Putney , where he lived in the basement of a decaying Victorian house , he progressed through his usual states of somnolence , sick juddering wakefulness , and increasing worry about Val . |
| 2 | Cameron also designed ( 1782–5 ) the palace of Pavlovsk for the Grand Duke Paul , where he built in the grounds the first Greek Revival building in Russia , the Temple of Friendship . |
| 3 | It was in a cinema on 86th Street where he sat in the balcony , wearing an old sports jacket and open-necked shirt . |
| 4 | He took me often to organ recitals ( Goss Custard and Thalben Ball ) and to the Proms , where he sat in the balcony over the orchestra cupping his good ear in his hand . |
| 5 | In the summer of 1914 Braque was once more at Sorgues , while Picasso spent his time between Sorgues and Avignon , where he worked in the company of André Derain . |
| 6 | Maurinus , cantor in the royal palace , had effectively challenged Eligius to do so , by searching himself , although he died in the attempt . |
| 7 | The outrage was enormous , he was stripped of the captaincy and , although he played in the Tests of that year , his career was over . |
| 8 | But although he smiled in the face of the direst provocation , underneath he was as determined as Ricky to go to ten . |
| 9 | Now extremely overweight and looking older than his sixty-five years , Brando spurns most film offers , although he appeared in The Freshman in 1989 and promptly denounced it to the world before it was even in the can . |
| 10 | On this occasion Chatichai was forced to relent and Chalerm was demoted , although he remained in the government as Deputy Education Minister [ see p. 37857 ] . |
| 11 | It is possible to argue that he wrote in the proportion to which each location claimed or received his spans of time and attention — and as he spent more than twice the length of time out on the islands as he did getting there , the greater part of his book addresses the west . |
| 12 | Well in a sense we were able to give this very quiet manner and very enthusiastic , very explicit , very kindly , very polite erm man his chance to relive for a moment erm this great contribution that he made in the past . |
| 13 | el-Kefevi likewise says that he came in the reign of Mehmed I and adds " during the decade of the 820s ' , which would mean that Fahreddin Acemi arrived in the early 820s . |
| 14 | The fact that the accused 's wife spent money on their flat does not mean that he assisted in the disposal of money stolen by the wife : Coleman [ 1986 ] Crim LR 56 . |
| 15 | His active opposition to the Nazis , the leading part that he played in the Kirchenkampf , the struggle against the Nazi attempt to take over the German Evangelical Church , and his refusal to take the oath of loyalty to Hitler , led to his dismissal from Bonn in 1935 . |
| 16 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 17 | He was different from them , did n't eat in the kitchen with us , but had my mother bake him potatoes and grate carrots that he ate in the isolation of the dining room . |
| 18 | Everything about him , from the sleek black head to the jutting strength of his jawline , to the broad , strong , self-satisfied bulk of him at ease in the chair , announced that he knew in the fibre of his being that his touch was anything but abhorrent to her . |
| 19 | We saw that he prayed in the verse at the end of last Sunday 's passage ; he prays in verse 33 as well . |
| 20 | It is as inadequate to argue , for example , that the PCF was simply the institutional terrain in which Nizan pursued a carefully orchestrated campaign of political and literary self-advancement and careerism , as it is to argue that for the majority of the ten years that he spent in the PCF Nizan remained unaware of the imperfections of Stalinist Soviet communism . |
| 21 | When his body was taken to Mangochi Hospital , staff were only told by police that he died in the night . |
| 22 | Tin Maung Win of the NLD was reported by Voice of Myanma radio on Jan. 31 to have " passed away " on Jan. 18 ; on Feb. 8 the Associated Press news agency reported that diplomats were claiming that he died in the city 's Insein prison . |
| 23 | Cheek , he thought later , with his usual time lag , pouring himself a glass of champagne from the half-bottles that he kept in the fridge . |
| 24 | Once , Professor Ward had publicly admitted that he believed in the uniqueness of Jesus . |
| 25 | First , the defendant might argue that he believed in the victim 's consent since she permitted penetration although he knew full well that she had no understanding of the act . |
| 26 | Mr Patten also said that he believed in the validity of the present system for predicting what housing needs will be . |
| 27 | Another interest that he had in the scheme was that his clerk occupied No. 20 South Parade , which was within the area covered by the 1855 Act , and Brunel 's office and home were at No. 18 Duke Street , adjacent to the site . |
| 28 | Moreover , alliances bind both parties ; the kaiser properly reminded Bismarck that he had in the past ‘ always opposed tieing our hands through alliances ’ . |
| 29 | An alternative to thinking that Harald had been in England since 1016 , and returned to Denmark with part of a disbanded fleet in 1018 , might be that he had in the interval been expelled from it , and sailed with the fleet in 1018 in an attempt to regain control . |
| 30 | In fact , it was while he was up for the interview that he read in The Times the advertisement that had brought him to Burleigh : |