Example sentences of "[coord] in [pos pn] [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet that high broad forehead was his , the little tilted nose was his , his the pointed — although in her case , flat — ears , and in her huge eyes he saw his own little ones . |
| 2 | My father worked on the railway and in my conscious life he was a supervisor , he was called an inspector , Inspector . |
| 3 | During the day John worked in the cotton trade , and in his spare time he devoted his energy to music and various activities , such as acting as the secretary for cricket clubs , always with the intention of promoting his business career . |
| 4 | He was mainly self-taught as a geologist , and in his spare time he began an amateur interest in geological mapping . |
| 5 | Hogarth also lived there , but he was often at his business address in Leicester Fields , and in his latter years he became ‘ Sergeant Painter ’ to the King . |
| 6 | Reagan 's notoriously detached style of management made high-quality staff essential , and in his first term he appears to have been particularly well served by those responsible for ushering his economic policy proposals through congress . |
| 7 | If he was the cynosure of all eyes he did n't notice and in his present mood he would n't have been troubled if he had . |
| 8 | He lifted one knee from the ground and turned his head slowly and looked up the slight incline to the path , and in his sun-blinded vision he saw a shape . |
| 9 | They 're out for a laugh , I mean Charlie wo n't even tell me who he fancies because erm he says , you know , he said to me , you know , and in , in , in , and in his exact words he said you 've got to be really stupid to tell anyone anything in this place and I said yeah but I 'm not a proper Haileyburian I 've just come in , you know he goes yeah but you 're gon na get that way |
| 10 | In July he succeeded in settling two years ' disruption at heavy labour cost ( 26 per cent ) and in his all-too-brief career he also announced a 5.9 trillion lire investment programme to be completed in 1995 , divided between fleet expansion ( 3.4 trillion lire ) and ground upgrading . |
| 11 | And in his own character he 'd found out what he wanted to know . |
| 12 | He did not keep a watch on her ; there was no necessity , and in his own mind he was almost convinced that nothing would happen . |
| 13 | He was famous simply because he happened to be the Prince of Wales ; and in his darker moments he felt that charities and organizations only wanted him because of his name . |
| 14 | Smith suffered periodically from gout — in 1720 he wrote that the drawing of a sketch ‘ at this time has occasioned me to make many a wry face by reason I could neither sit nor stand to do it ’ — and in his later years he put on weight : ‘ It is unlucky that Mr. Smith is grown so unweildy , ’ commented Dr George Clarke [ q.v. ] of All Souls College , Oxford , in 1730 . |
| 15 | He was particularly embarrassing on an occasion when Jennie Lee was sitting alongside him and in his groping fashion he made some amorous overtures . |
| 16 | But in his two lectures he contented himself with a couple of scattered references to " Apolline clarity " and tragedy 's — actually Shakespearean tragedy 's — " Dionysiac " quality . |
| 17 | He was ordained deacon in 1870 , and priest in 1872 , but in his first curacy he fell foul of both his vicar and his bishop for his heterodox beliefs ; the former asked him to leave the parish and the latter delayed his ordination . |
| 18 | Chance was a businessman rather than a biologist , but in his spare time he collected birds ' eggs , particularly those of the cuckoo and its hosts . |
| 19 | Pilot David Moore from Gloucestershire was at the controls of the forty seven year old Spitfire as it took part in an air display near Manchester on Saturday.The fighter plane looped the loop but as it neared the ground it plummeted down , bursting into flames.Firefighters were on the scene immediately , and confirmed that the pilot was dead.David Moore , who was 47 , flew with the Royal Navy for ten years before joining Rolls Royce as a pilot in the mid 1970s.He flew the company 's executives around Europe … but in his spare time he enjoyed piloting vintage planes like the Spitfire , which was owned by Rolls Royce.Today at the family 's home near Stroud , David Moore 's widow was coming to terms with the tragedy : |
| 20 | But in his next match he was sent off for twice attacking the goalie . |
| 21 | Marx in his early writing was much interested in how the illusion of religion comes about , but in his later writing he seems to have lost interest in religion . |
| 22 | Herbert Spencer ( 1820–1903 ) protested that marriage was an unequal institution , and that women should have equal rights of competition with men , but in his later writing he reversed this opinion and declared that ‘ if women comprehended all that is contained in the domestic sphere , they would ask no other ’ . |
| 23 | But in his later years he did n't come into the smithy until after breakfast . |
| 24 | But in his theoretical essays he gives some interesting indications of the ways in which they may contribute to a poem 's effect . |
| 25 | Archie may not have been fastidious , but in his own way he was cultivated . |
| 26 | Had he been more self-assertive he might have risen higher in politics , but in his chosen field he made good use of his wealth and talents . |