Example sentences of "in later [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In later life he was fond of Tom Stoppard 's remark about being a bounced Czech . |
| 2 | Either way , in later life he looked back on that experience as evidence that dancing could be part of everyday life in a way that it is not for most Europeans . |
| 3 | In later life he said that he was terrified of his father and found his mother over-possessive . |
| 4 | In later life he expanded this social interest , even attempting to enter Parliament , standing as a candidate for East Worcestershire in 1874 , but his platform , based on proposals to deal with the health problems of prostitution near garrisons and naval establishments , attracted little support . |
| 5 | In later life he had to be subsidized by the teetotal movement and lived with his eldest sister . |
| 6 | In later life he was an invalid . |
| 7 | In later life he seems to have returned to his early interest in astronomy ( on which he had already been writing papers at the age of eighteen ) . |
| 8 | Russell was taken up in this for a time , he even wrote wonderful piece on the foundations of geometry couched in erm a sort of vaguely dialectical form , which in later life he erm pronounced as being complete rubbish . |
| 9 | Whereas in the examples taken from scenes one and three , Anderson fulfils the Interest Principle by merely 'saying what is unpredictable and hence interesting " ( Leech 1983 : 146 ) , in later scenes he uses irony to implicate propositions which might be too face-threatening to be made directly or ironic understatement to be deliberately impolite . |
| 10 | In later experiments he somewhat altered the behavioural design . |
| 11 | Though dogged by ill health in later years he was still able to work in his particularly single-minded way , largely because of the devotion of his wife Mitzi whom he met during the war , while serving with the Royal Engineers . |
| 12 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 13 | In later years he thought that twice in his life , and twice only , he seriously wondered whether Frank was right , and he wrong , about religion . |
| 14 | Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time . |
| 15 | In later years he turned to golf and became one of the most successful amateur players in the history of the sport in Canada . |
| 16 | At Dulwich and Oxford University he was an excellent athlete and Rugby Union Player , while in later years he became a good club cricketer and a member of I Zingari . |
| 17 | When he thought of India in later years he would always see these two men and two bullocks and the leather bag flooding out its water as it settled on the ground . |
| 18 | In later years he visited the four dominions , for each of which he established a graduate studentship ; and Melbourne and New Zealand followed St Andrews in conferring honorary degrees . |
| 19 | In later years he drifted away from his original Liberalism and his later Labour ties , and in 1910–11 served as a Conservative nominee as alderman on the London county council . |
| 20 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 21 | In later years he rose to the position of shipping manager and had about four small steamers and a score of sailing barges to supervise . |
| 22 | In later years he would be at the centre oftwo scandalous court cases … |