Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [noun] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is impossible to watch the towplane and the ground ahead during the climb out so that in the event of a launch failure the glider pilot has to look for a field , whereas in the normal tow position he has a good view of the fields ahead all the time . |
| 2 | On Saturday he was back in his own Opel and despite struggling for grip in the slippery Fermanagh forests he played safe to finish 35 seconds behind the Ford Escort Cosworth of Leckey . |
| 3 | In the early morning light he could see that she wore a black cape over a dark red dress . |
| 4 | He stood aside to admit her ; in the tiny entrance hall he helped her off with her coat without touching her . |
| 5 | Haggard recounted the power of Cook 's name in the only travel book he wrote . |
| 6 | Affectionately known as ‘ The Skipper ’ , in the preparatory school world he became renowned for his ‘ advanced ’ views . |
| 7 | She joined in the training sessions , but soon found to her chagrin that in the personal fitness stakes he left her standing . |
| 8 | The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him . |
| 9 | The reformist politician has already been forced to make compromises in the new party programme he has drafted , and has even had to put up with seeing the dreaded word ‘ Marxism ’ inserted into the version he will be proposing to the delegates today . |
| 10 | Known throughout the Army world for his outstanding service as a chaplain in the First World War he was held in great affection and esteem . |
| 11 | In the Second World War he seems to have thought that 5 per cent would be a reasonable target for postwar policy . |
| 12 | In the next record gap he came trundling into the studio to tell me that the phone call was from the bride 's stepmother . |
| 13 | When PC Keith Blakelock was stabbed to death on 6 October 1985 during the rioting in the Broadwater Farm Estate he was the first Metropolitan policeman to be killed in a riot since PC Culley in 1833 . |
| 14 | In the bright mid-morning light he looked , standing there , rather commonplace and even ugly — so thought Alice , who a few moments before had been melting in a familiar ecstasy of admiration for him . |
| 15 | ALAN SHEARER 'S success at Blackburn Rovers is reflected in the massive signing-on fee he picked up in the record move . |
| 16 | Magnus is said to have led a blameless childhood and in the Longer Magnúss Saga he is said to have had a good schooling which enabled him to learn ‘ holy writings ’ . |
| 17 | We went into the living-room and seized the brass clock which has always adorned the shelf above our fireplace ( oh , what strong hands he has ) , and violently enclosed it in the festive wrapping paper he found in the trash . |
| 18 | Also , like the writer in the Congregational Year Book he insisted that Gothic architecture was ‘ the most economic style of Chapel Building ’ . |
| 19 | Some knowing souls disagree with the national selectors ' assessment in reckoning that Watt is too tall for a prop and that in the 1990 District Championship he was the outstanding ball-winner at the front of the line-out . |
| 20 | In the damp dawn mist he radiated green light , tendrils of luminescence which reached from the points of his body into the canopy , and down to the earth . |
| 21 | In the same tea chest he came across a cube-shaped case made of orange plastic . |
| 22 | No new taxes ’ in the last election campaign he had already sealed his fate . |
| 23 | Why the American woman was so keen to become a link in the Nazi spy network he did n't know or care . |
| 24 | However , notice need not be given where the defendant does not appear , or where in a fixed date action he has failed to deliver a defence in time . |
| 25 | From such humble beginnings in a remote Lincolnshire village he was , however , destined to make his impression on the world . |
| 26 | Throughout his control of the Elmswell estate Best also kept a memorandum book , in which he recorded in a haphazard fashion things he wished to remember : the wages agreed with servants ; debts owed and owing ; the number of sheep in the shepherd 's care . |
| 27 | In a few seconds time he might be face to face with the man who had killed Daniel . |
| 28 | He certainly succeeded — in a local DlY centre he found the " Octavia Chalet " , which is custom built to order . |
| 29 | What the precise purpose was of installing complex electronics in an old sailing vessel he did not know for sure , and Iain did not press him . |