Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Jolosa stormed : ‘ If he played in the same league that I do , he 'd end up in trouble too . ’ |
| 9 | Candace Rainford was clinging to his arm and he did not look as if he minded in the slightest . |
| 10 | ‘ just because he fought in the International Brigade . |
| 11 | 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 — |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Marie held the bag open while he tipped in the empty drink cans . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When he wrote in the last fragments |
| 17 | ‘ When he played in the second row there is no space for him to run into . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Joe was badly bitten by the showbiz bug as a five-year-old when he appeared in the American TV show Startime Kids . |
| 24 | And indeed , incidentally , when he stayed in the famous erm Grande Hôtel at Cabours in the summer , he frequently rented additional rooms on either side of his own , in order to ensure silence . |
| 25 | And in 1982 Gemayel still saw it as he had in the late 1930s , as a movement of renewal that prepared Lebanon 's young Christians for independence and civic responsibility . |
| 26 | The sandy-haired man 's eyes narrowed as he took in the possessive gesture , but he made no comment on it . |
| 27 | However , as he wrote in the following May , it galled him to be expected to do so and still to be refused admission to the members ' enclosures at smart meetings . |
| 28 | As he said in The Favourite Game : ‘ Seven to 11 is a huge chunk of life , full of dulling and forgetting , ’ though perhaps some of the ‘ forgetting ’ was deliberate . |
| 29 | Hobhouse ‘ presented a kind of fusion of Spencer and Green ’ insofar as he believed in the scientific importance of the idea of evolution but felt that the most highly evolved society is one ‘ in which the efforts of its members are most completely coordinated to common ends , in which discord is most fully subdued to harmony . ’ |
| 30 | DRIPS and tubes punctured two-year-old Thomas Stimpfig 's tiny , frail body as he lay in the Paediatric Oncology Unit at Bart 's with leukaemia . |