Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also deduction of the Fund 's initial charge ( where applicable ) means that if an investor withdraws from his investment in the short term he may not get back the amount he originally invested . |
| 2 | He admitted the murder in the few words he spoke to the people . |
| 3 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 4 | Though he travels a good deal in his job as an engineering manager , he could now enjoy the prospect of climbing , walking and fishing in the beautiful scenery he loves . |
| 5 | In the case of Primo Nebiolo , the mere fact of being in Gateshead suddenly seemed to give the president of the International Amateur Athletic Federation a fluency in the English language he had not erstwhile possessed . |
| 6 | In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision . |
| 7 | By the faint , clouded moonlight from the small window in the adjoining washroom he was able to orient himself ; he struggled upright , leaning awkwardly against the wall , hampered by his bound hands and lacerated feet , and began to walk . |
| 8 | In half a column in the Daily Telegraph he examined the plot and decorated his review with a reference to a Victorian poem but , although he called Mr Begley 's first novel ‘ extraordinary ’ ( which could mean almost anything : one hopes that both the best and the worst books in the world are ‘ extraordinary ’ ) , he made no comment on the worth of the later one . |
| 9 | ‘ They are great pals , the prince enjoys her company and he has found her of great help in the recent troubles he has had at home . |
| 10 | As a poor boy in the Soviet Union he had , he pointed out , become chairman of the Supreme Council of Soviets , a job whose responsibilities compared even with those of running 20th Century Fox . |
| 11 | With his huge rough hands and a large red nose , he looked like a rebellious peasant from Doctor Zhivago — and compared to the four veterans of the Afghan campaign in the next compartment he was a veritable teetotaller . |
| 12 | He came here with my grandmother when he was in his early twenties , changed his name from Vassilakas to Vass and found himself a job in the only trade he knew . |
| 13 | He is going through a dry patch at the moment as he has won only on match in the five tournaments he has played so far this year but I am sure he will work his way back again , he has got it in him . |
| 14 | At another meeting in the open air he spoke from a cart and was tumbled when a member of the proletariat told the horse to Gee up . |
| 15 | Trainer Francois Doumen said last night : ‘ The challenge is to bring him back for Gold Cup day in the same shape he was for Kempton . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw him as fleeing the violent campus situation in America for the peaceful English countryside on a conscious level , while on an unconscious level he would begin to set up the conflict in the small town he went to . |
| 17 | The boy bowed again , enjoying her astonishment in the same way he had enjoyed the applause of the T'ang earlier that day when he had played Tsu Tiao . |
| 18 | After winning a third trainer 's title in the 1983–84 season he left Yorkshire and took over as private trainer to Robert Sangster at Manton . |
| 19 | ‘ Ossie has attempted to play the game in the attractive way he has always believed in , ’ said O'Neill . |
| 20 | Another delay as the work train was slowly shunted along , and as there were no seats on the customer side of the counter in the tiny room he went out into the periodicals area . |
| 21 | Berger stood stripped to the waist in front of the wash-basin in the small bedroom he had been allocated and examined his face in the mirror . |
| 22 | SEAN KELLY , 36 next month , will find in the 164-mile Tour of Flanders tomorrow that it will not be his age but the rest of the professional ‘ peleton ’ that will make victory in the one classic he has never won practically impossible , writes Phil Liggett . |
| 23 | STUDENT and part-time chef Michael Pearson has won a top national prize in the first competition he has entered . |
| 24 | Gore was seen to have the advantages of youth , good looks , and increasing political stature — as a candidate in the 1988 contest he did unexpectedly well and had increased his reputation since . |
| 25 | Philip ran towards it and as he came round the slight bend in the wide path he saw the boy tugging at it . |
| 26 | After half an hour on the bed in the dry heat he was really enjoying himself and was perspiring profusely . |
| 27 | Along the road in the far carriageway he could see the two-car tableau under the bright lights , but he did n't linger to watch . |
| 28 | Whilst therefore making full allowance for the diversity of gifts God has given to his Church in the varying capacities he has accorded to different members , Paul insists that the Spirit creates unity , and that it is the job of the Christians to keep that unity and not spoil it . |
| 29 | And first thing in the New Year he will be going . |
| 30 | Using profit maximising analyses and based on a model of a mainly cereal farm in the eastern counties he has calculated the likely impact of various assumed changes in the economics of farming . |