Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the British mandate in Palestine he was a leading member of Irgun . |
| 2 | Directly after Brezhnev outlined this proposal in Delhi he reiterated the Soviet readiness ‘ to work actively with other interested states ’ to transform the Indian Ocean into a zone of peace . |
| 3 | Following German intervention in Spain he solved the Spanish military code and collaborated with the French on Italian naval codes used in Abyssinia . |
| 4 | In some places in Kent he was known as a Borsholder , and was elected by the parish , in most cases reluctantly . |
| 5 | Mervyn Whyte , secretary of the meeting told me today : ‘ At this point in time he 'll not be on the front row of the grid but Billy Nutt , the clerk of the course , and myself will be going through the speeds later today and deciding the grid positions . |
| 6 | When Arthur Wellesley was in command of the British troops in Spain he refused to pay for their upkeep by pillage and plunder . |
| 7 | On this occasion in Dunvegan he repeated his earlier assertion that Burke never made a good joke . |
| 8 | I had a frantic clean round this morning in case he come ! |
| 9 | This week in Georgia he has been keeping a low profile , wrapped up in his own game plan , which is how he best enjoys life , it seems . |
| 10 | ‘ After his enforced lay-offs in Sydney he 's raring to go . ’ |
| 11 | In his last year at Devonport High School in Plymouth he set himself the aim of finding a job which would earn him £5 a week , because up to that time , his father , a Westcountryman , had never achieved such a princely sum . |
| 12 | After moving into a suburban villa in Norwich he fell behind with his mortgage payments and had to turn to his new club for a £19,000 loan to prevent the building society from repossessing his home . |
| 13 | When the regression was over , Barry was able to see that , because of his past experience , he had become terrified of showing even the slightest sign of aggression in this lifetime in case he once again lost control and reverted to his former self . |
| 14 | After much ceremony in Accra he was buried in his birth-place , Nkroful . |
| 15 | He is able to run his part-time practice in Leyburn he worked in Darlington and Richmond before that around the racing calendar . |
| 16 | During his early years in London he lived south of the river . |
| 17 | Upon his release after 26 years in jail he will discover that he is more free than either his wife , Albertina , or his journalist son , Zwelakhe , who are both ‘ restricted ’ by the authorities under the long-standing state of emergency . |
| 18 | And his quality show earned the praise of manager Steve Gritt , who said : ‘ That is the best all-round performance I 've seen from him and for the second game in succession he 's earned us a draw . ’ |
| 19 | About the second week in December he began taking his still into the night lavatory every evening . |
| 20 | At the Non-Aligned Summit the following year in Havana he demanded ‘ the termination of all imperialistic foreign military bases in the territory of others ’ and described them as ‘ being inconsistent with the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the countries concerned ’ . |
| 21 | When he gets to Iona , Johnson will walk for the second time in footsteps he does not yet know about , those of the man who caused the folklore — Columba was here . |
| 22 | Mr Wang , 23 , looking relaxed but pale , told reporters that despite his three-and-a-half years in prison he still believed in the principles of democracy . |
| 23 | It had been his first and only history lesson , and throughout their hungry and needy years in Bunarkaig he never lost the sense that they lived under threat , that government was pitiless , and that some day they would have to fight again for the right to live at peace in their own place . |
| 24 | Three times in December he stopped over at Amsterdam airport , bound for Ghana and Switzerland and back to Paramaribo . |
| 25 | After barely three months in power he was murdered by the disaffected Praetorian Guards , who ‘ regretted the licence of the former reign ’ . |
| 26 | After three months in hospital he returns to the car park , seeks out the girl and gives her another ticket with time left on it . |
| 27 | He was First Commissioner in the Derby Governments of 1852 , 1858–9 and 1866–8 , and in his later years in Parliament he held various other government posts . |
| 28 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 29 | At 8 am yesterday , Woosnam resumed play on the 14th green , having refused to hole a putt of 4ft the previous night in case he missed it . |
| 30 | After a brief exhibition in Manchester he left to begin his career in the metropolis . |