Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [adj] he " in BNC.
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1 | When he took over his father 's stables in 1968 he became the fourth generation of the family to train at Newmarket but he broke tradition when he moved to North Yorkshire in 1970 . |
2 | To try to discover the form which put him on the verge of Ryder Cup honours in 1989 he finished 17th on the money list that year Walton has gone through around a dozen putters . |
3 | In two lectures in 1857 he attributed crime not to personal depravity but the corrupting tendencies of the law . |
4 | On the completion of his articles in 1814 he moved to London to work as an assistant in the office of David Laing [ q.v. ] , architect to the customs and excise , before setting up in independent practice there in 1818 . |
5 | After his consecration as bishop of Argyll and the Isles in 1847 he lived in Lochgilphead and struggled with the problems of his diocese , Italy , Calvinism in Scotland , and factional struggles in the Episcopal Church . |
6 | In comparison to his contemporaries in 1967 he had completed a lot more films than most ; the difference was that his were a succession of B-movies that paid him little . |
7 | De Gaulle had to recognize that himself : three times in 1945 he approved reductions in the military budget . |
8 | Following worker demonstrations in 1970 he was elected chairman of the workshop strike committee and spent several days in detention . |
9 | On the eve of Ecgfrith 's campaigns against the Picts in 685 he was living on Iona . |
10 | In a letter to town magistrates in 1892 he asked if his body could be stuffed and placed in a glass cabinet next to the Pease Monument when he died . |
11 | I 'll just set the scene for the others in that he 's er fifty five is n't he ? |
12 | Even before the war was won , he had been afraid that peace might be associated only with the concept of " efficiency " , and in radio talks in 1946 he spoke of the necessity for maintaining the " spiritual organization " as well as the " material organization " of Europe . |