Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Looking for the unicorn , ’ she repeated , saying ‘ looking ’ now instead of ‘ hunting ’ because perhaps in some way he was the protector of the beast . |
| 2 | So in other words he comes round and he says I I do n't want that there I want a little bit put there |
| 3 | So in other words he 's saying , you should look to history to try and understand what 's happening . |
| 4 | So in other words he makes a joke about his if they all looked like me , would n't that be awful . |
| 5 | The sad thing was , as I said before , his navigator was incapable — and I must say not good enough — to get him round the heavily defended areas , and so in two sorties he still sustained abnormal flak damage . |
| 6 | good job he 's not in another country he 'd be eaten for |
| 7 | Scholes 's case is the more telling in that he is far from being a conservative opponent of all recent developments in theory ; he has written favourably of structuralism , and unsympathetically about fictional realism ( for which , indeed , he has been attacked by Tallis ) , and elsewhere in Textual Power he finds deconstructive reading — as opposed to the theory underlying it — a useful critical method . |
| 8 | Kentigern 's own example was powerful : he went always on foot , lived temperately , went into cold water each morning even in winter , lay at night in a stone coffin with ashes for a mattress , and yet he was a man of business , his parishes grew , churches were established the country over , and always in one hand he held a plain pontifical staff , in the other a psalter . ’ |
| 9 | Also in that year he formed the Stamford Brazenose Society and at their first meeting they discussed astronomy and the latitude of Stamford , lunar maps , a remarkable wasps ' nest and a ‘ stone as big as a walnut , taken from out of the bladder of a little Dutch dog ’ . |
| 10 | Also in this volume he declares that " at Kildalton , there are two crosses covered with sculpture , yet of clumsy proportions , and without any merit . " |
| 11 | Also in this volume he declares that " at Kildalton , there are two crosses covered with sculpture , yet of clumsy proportions , and without any merit . " |
| 12 | Later in that year he had taught for seven weeks in the school ( a replacement master could not start immediately ) and had been paid £7 . |
| 13 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 14 | Later in that day he was in the town centre when his school was breaking up . |
| 15 | But later in that letter he asked : |
| 16 | Later in this interlude he meets Saul , who tells him it 's irrelevant whether he lived or died : the point is that the myth continues . |
| 17 | Three weeks later in another memo he wrote . |
| 18 | Early on in both editions he writes , convincingly enough , of those who are unable to predict what will happen even when presented with all the necessary facts . |
| 19 | Back in civilian life he was foreman for a Darlington decorating firm , Jack Stead , and the couple moved into the town 's Rockingham Street . |
| 20 | Back in civvy street he landed a job at the Strand Cornerhouse in London ; from there a number of jobs with skilled confectioners allowed him to accumulate the experience needed to go it alone . |
| 21 | But at the sight of all those senior conspirators standing uncomfortably around in rented tailcoats he ca n't help laughing . |
| 22 | It happens that Mr X 's preferred language is French , but even in that tongue he could not write or spell with any normal level of competence and his grammar was almost non-existent . |
| 23 | Even in private conversation he would explain how his client could not possibly have broken into the house in the way of which he was accused , because he was far too drunk at the time , and so on . |
| 24 | Was it a freak of physiognomy , that even in such off-moments he looked so pugnacious , so determined ? |
| 25 | Even in this hell-hole he found a kind of salvation . |
| 26 | Even in this weather he was wearing a sleeveless vest . |
| 27 | L B did n't come off so well in another encounter he had with Gilbert in 1928 . |
| 28 | He 'd got high blood pressure , he was n't in any pain he 's living a normal life . |
| 29 | Earlier in this career he was Assistant Accountant at Inverness and later Accountant at Newton Stewart . |
| 30 | Speaking of the primeval events which created human society and which were summarized earlier in this book he says : |