Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | In Moscow , Mr Yeltsin won a higher percentage of the votes cast than he did in the 1991 presidential election . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His clients are mostly dealers and decorators so he specialises in the unusual . |
| 7 | The passage in which they walked had changed its nature gradually , and Harry had not noticed it until he stumbled in the broken formations of the flooring where all had been smoothly levelled before . |
| 8 | Well , if he lived in the north- east , er part of this county , that great ar area where there is very little in terms of infrastructure perhaps er er it 's a pity we ca n't have a few more hysterics and we would perhaps get further down the road . |
| 9 | Jolosa stormed : ‘ If he played in the same league that I do , he 'd end up in trouble too . ’ |
| 10 | How can I make him see his colleagues will look down on him if he says in the same old rut ? |
| 11 | Candace Rainford was clinging to his arm and he did not look as if he minded in the slightest . |
| 12 | If the donor dies more than seven years after the gift , there 's no duty at all payable If he dies in the seventh year the whole duty is reduced by 60 per cent , if in the sixth by 30 per cent , and in the fifth 15 per cent . ’ |
| 13 | However , an investment manager ( such as an IMRO member ) who uses a firm as a broker will not be a market counterparty under this head , and will thus be a customer unless he falls in the listed categories test category of market counterparty ; in particular , this means that the best execution rules will apply . |
| 14 | ‘ just because he fought in the International Brigade . |
| 15 | He provides one of the vagaries of political life , in that in 1984 he was deselected as a European candidate because he believed in the European Community , whereas he was imposed as the Labour party 's candidate a few weeks ago — |
| 16 | with the ineffable modesty that , because he stood in the direct line of the Apostolic Succession , he had a better right to preach the Gospel and to administer the Sacraments , and was more a minister of Christ than Dr Dale or Mr Spurgeon or Henry Ward Beecher … what could they do but laugh ? |
| 17 | Marie held the bag open while he tipped in the empty drink cans . |
| 18 | Sean Yates produced one of Britain 's best results with 13th place , after he cramped in the last 200 yards when sprinting for third place . |
| 19 | Well when he gets in the right places he 's only been doing schools and you know ? |
| 20 | World record-holder Lewis — who lost his chance of an Olympic 100-metre hat-trick when he flopped in the American trials — will collide with Christie in Zurich on August 19 . |
| 21 | When he wrote in the last fragments |
| 22 | ‘ When he played in the second row there is no space for him to run into . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's a wheeler-dealer and he came across it in a house where he was doing some plastering , ’ said Walton , who used a similar one when he played in the 1981 Walker Cup match in America . |
| 24 | Alan Steele signalled there was to be no let-up in the pressure when he rattled in the ninth goal 30 seconds into the second period , and though the visitors replied with two goals they were still chasing shadows . |
| 25 | PHILLIP McCallen will make his first Irish road race appearance of the season outside the North West 200 and Ulster Grand Prix when he rides in the Loughshinny Club 's meeting at Killalane near Skerries on Saturday and Sunday . |
| 26 | When he checked in the new phone book to see that his entry was there he did not , of course , look through all the Hugheses . |
| 27 | But now he 's retired I 've heard that , when he plays in the odd charity match , he has a go now . |
| 28 | ALAN LEONARD aims to add another string to his bow when he plays in the Irish National Pairs championship finals in Blackrock , County Dublin next weekend . |
| 29 | When he walked in the stable door accompanied by his usual aroma , the foal fastened her ears to the back of her neck and attempted to attack him with feet and teeth ! |
| 30 | Bull exploited hesitancy in the Polish defence when he headed in the second goal in the 36th minute , again from a Smith cross , after good work by David Batty . |