Example sentences of "he [be] [adj] in [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he been unfeeling in handing back the bowler 's sweater less than gently ( but by no means callously ) after an over full of backchat by the bowler and his captain ? |
| 2 | He is meticulous in phoning back anyone who calls when he 's out . |
| 3 | ‘ He says he 's interested in building up a representative collection of primitive and tribal art , but when we tell him the best place to look is in his own back yard , as it were , he tells us he does n't want Abo art , ’ James said , trying unsuccessfully to pronounce the last two words of his sentence with what he imagined was an Australian accent . |
| 4 | He was active in building up Edward 's anti-French coalition in the Low Countries in 1296–7 , negotiated for a truce with France in 1298 , attended the papal curia in 1300–1 , helped to settle the terms for a final French peace in 1303 , and was among those sent again to the curia by Edward in 1305 to seek the suspension of Robert de Winchelsea [ q.v. ] , archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 5 | So , when Caine told Peter Langan that he was interested in setting up a British restaurant along the lines of La Coupole , Langan found it an irresistible proposition . |
| 6 | A keen player of games at school , he was interested in finding out what local facilities offered in terms of learning and practising new sports in the holidays . |
| 7 | In the early 1930s he was instrumental in setting up the child department of the Institute of Psychoanalysis . |
| 8 | Does the Prime Minister recall my earlier concern that the parameters that he was instrumental in drawing up at the Rome summit , to separate an incipient European Community defence policy from NATO 's responsibilities for the defence of Europe , should be preserved ? |