Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories were in some disarray after the association of some of their leaders with Jacobite intrigue : Oxford was impeached and sent to the Tower in 1715 , and although eventually acquitted in 1717 , his political power was effectively destroyed ; Bolingbroke fled abroad , and although he returned in the 1720s to play a leading role in the propaganda campaign against Walpole , he was not allowed to resume his seat in the House of Lords . |
| 2 | It was in that spirit that he persuaded in the early 1960s to take Pugwash seriously . |
| 3 | It has been suggested that Greek was not the native language of the author but that he wrote in the universal language of the day which was Greek , while thinking in his own language which was probably Aramaic . |
| 4 | But it was hard to pick out faces that he knew in the swaying mass of heads . |
| 5 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |
| 6 | All heads turned as his father gave him such a clip that he landed in the muddy , freshly dug grave behind him . |
| 7 | The fact that he died in the following April does not seem to have put anyone off or taken away their faith in Pau 's salutariness . |
| 8 | He reports that he died in the early days of the reign of Bayezid II ( 886–918/1481–1512 ) , in the year 907/1501–2 according to one report , and concludes : " Because , according to the account in the he was an adornment of the chain of Seyhulislams , he has been recorded in this place . " |
| 9 | Although conceivably not before 994 , this was probably earlier , for the greatest possible length of time that could have elapsed between 994 and Æthelric 's death is five years — assuming that he died in the last year that the will could have been confirmed — and whether even this justifies the description " many years " seems questionable . |
| 10 | Your own son needs to be encouraged to behave in a mature way , while your stepson has to be reassured that he belongs in the new family . |
| 11 | You can buy slack-key that he did in the '40s and the '50s and the '60s , it 's all there . |
| 12 | Given the various elements present in Eliot 's mind , it is hardly surprising that he found in the thundering drums of Stravinsky 's ballet , Le Sacre du printemps , the equivalent of the myth he sought . |
| 13 | But suppose that he proceeds in the general direction from where he assumed by voice came and suddenly found himself face to face with a stranger who looked very similar to myself . |
| 14 | In the last two stanzas , Blake is explaining the marks of woe that he sees in the first stanza — but what extraordinary connections to make ! |
| 15 | The major tasks that he tackled in the New Deal were , first , to provide the relief for the victims of the Depression ; second , to promote the recovery of the American economy on a permanent basis ; and third , to remove through reform the inequalities of American society . |
| 16 | The date of its founder , Zarathustra ( Zoroaster is the Greek form of his name ) , is uncertain but it is thought that he flourished in the first half of the sixth century BC . |
| 17 | Lord John Rossendale grinned at Bristow , then , as if he were a magician , produced a letter that he flourished in the elderly servant 's face . |
| 18 | The homosexual ‘ knows intimately in himself the generality that he finds in the other ’ : ‘ in the homosexual act I remain locked within my body , narcissistically contemplating in the other an excitement that is the mirror of my own ’ ( pp. 307 , 310 ) . |
| 19 | Layton appreciates in Leonard the patrician Jew aspects that he finds so ridiculous in others ; Leonard , the anti-establishment ( and anti-everything else ! ) that he finds in the older man . |
| 20 | There is probably more gloom about the British economy than about several of the economies that he mentioned in the gloomy passage at the beginning of his speech . |
| 21 | He was bearing the cold and damp better than he had in the previous year , but these winter months were a time when proper life had to give way to the struggle merely to exist . |
| 22 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 23 | In Moscow , Mr Yeltsin won a higher percentage of the votes cast than he did in the 1991 presidential election . |
| 24 | The big pitfall is the prospect of a currency loss if sterling declines still further , which can wipe out the benefit of interest rate savings and leave the borrower owing more debt than he borrowed in the first place . |
| 25 | His clients are mostly dealers and decorators so he specialises in the unusual . |
| 26 | She ripped away her scarf and he saw in the uncertain light the marks about her throat . |
| 27 | He encouraged to take the examiner 's examination and he qualified in the late 1960s . |
| 28 | Where did he begin his career ? — with Banbury United , and he played in the same youth side as me . |
| 29 | Well old Jack er , he di used to do the post round and he lived in the next cottage |
| 30 | By the time Gabriel and he met in the late afternoon they knew that Rose had probably never got home the night before . |