Example sentences of "in [adj] the [noun] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even one of the ‘ enemy ’ admired the ‘ valour and stoutness ’ of the Cornishmen and ‘ … never in all the wars he had been in did he know the like ’ . |
| 2 | For example , Nobinul noticed that in all the notations we had collected , two digits were used to express ten . |
| 3 | Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 4 | ( c ) Independent contractors Section 2(4) ( b ) states : Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 5 | Just weeks before her death Kelly sat with her father at the computer keyboard in her bedroom and keyed in all the arrangements she had made for her funeral . |
| 6 | In all the time she had been with her Paula had never seen her so angry . |
| 7 | In fact , in all the time she had known him , she had never heard him swear before . |
| 8 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 9 | In all the time he had know Joe , he had never seen anyone else in his room ; indeed he had never seen him in company , except at the meetings of the IRB . |
| 10 | Covertly , leaning far back in his chair , he watched McQuaid from under hooded eyelids : in all the years they had been coming together on Monaghan Day McQuaid had always spent the night in the house . |
| 11 | In all the years they had been married , she could not remember quite such serious conflict . |
| 12 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 13 | Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping . |
| 14 | In all the years I had been watching him , he had , as far as I could tell , absolutely fuck-all interest in them . |
| 15 | In all the years he had not had one really happy day because Anthea was always the boss . |
| 16 | At first she did not notice him standing there near her cage in the darkening gloom but when she did she did something he had never seen her do in all the years he had watched her . |
| 17 | In all the years he had known him he had not heard of one instance of Tolonen using his position for his own advantage . |
| 18 | She had never been kissed by him in all the years she had known him — apart from a brotherly peck on the cheek . |
| 19 | There was one good thing , though : in all the fuss I had n't had to apologize to Kezia . |
| 20 | Yet his presence was everywhere in the house , like my father 's , and in all the places we had known in London and Bath and Bristol . |
| 21 | Our descent was made in one-fifth the time it had taken us to climb to our record-breaking altitude . |