Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] in his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says unless you know what goes on in his daily life you do n't realise what he goes through . |
| 2 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 3 | Of course , Thomas Luis de Victoria is better known than Juan Gutièrez de Padilla but , as Bruno Turner points out in his informative programme note , he is ‘ undoubtedly the finest composer of the colonial period to come from Old Spain and spend nearly all his productive life in the New Spain ’ . |
| 4 | Today that analogy seems almost trivial , yet , as Professor L. M. Brown points out in his stimulating introduction to this book , in the 1930s there was an almost pathological fear of new particles . |
| 5 | Immanuel Yelikovsky 's idea that the Earth stopped rotating in Old Testament times is attractive , as Martin Gardner points out in his recent Science , Good , Bad and Bogus , because it seems to verify the Old Testament . |
| 6 | As Charles Medawar points out in his seminal study , Power and Dependence ( Social Audit , £10 ) , it was not until the 1980s that benzodiazepine dependency became recognized as an iatrogenic problem , a disease caused by medicine itself . |
| 7 | As Hannah points out in his historical study of the development of the corporate economy , during the course of the present century British industry was transformed from ‘ a disaggregated structure of predominantly small , competing firms to a concentrated structure dominated by large , and often monopolistic , corporations ’ . |
| 8 | And as top Australian journalist Richard Shears sums up in his stylish appraisal of Kylie the phenomenon : ‘ At the end of the year Britons will be able to make up their own minds when Delinquents is released . |
| 9 | At best man ‘ idolized by all … feels an irresistible impulse to confer upon them fresh benefits … and he runs on in his magnanimous career with alacrity and joy ’ . |