Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] in [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some places in Kent he was known as a Borsholder , and was elected by the parish , in most cases reluctantly . |
| 2 | When Arthur Wellesley was in command of the British troops in Spain he refused to pay for their upkeep by pillage and plunder . |
| 3 | ‘ After his enforced lay-offs in Sydney he 's raring to go . ’ |
| 4 | During his early years in London he lived south of the river . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Three times in December he stopped over at Amsterdam airport , bound for Ghana and Switzerland and back to Paramaribo . |
| 9 | After barely three months in power he was murdered by the disaffected Praetorian Guards , who ‘ regretted the licence of the former reign ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He loved stand-up comedy , but over 50 years in showbusiness he also became well-known for his roles in some of the best British comedy films and tv shows . |
| 14 | In a lengthy report on his first ten years in office he made much of the fact that , whereas " Russian was scarcely to be heard " in the western provinces at the time of his appointment , it now had " an indisputable primacy " . |
| 15 | After all those years in Paris he found the bright sunshine and the sparkling translucence of the air disturbed his concentration and made it difficult for him to work . |
| 16 | After nine months in office he still is uncertain whether to go fast or slow on any issue from the Russians to oil slicks . |
| 17 | After five years in Yorkshire he was transferred to Manchester City for £56,000 and a year later made the fateful move to Torino . |
| 18 | During his five years in office he combined vigorous measures to suppress continuing disorder with efforts to promote a programme of reforms which he hoped would prevent a recurrence of the upheaval of 1905 . |
| 19 | After five years in Vienna he taught in Trieste , Greece and Moldavia before studying philosophy in Halle . |
| 20 | When Watkins put forward his observations regarding remnants of prehistoric alignments in Britain he ran head-on into official archaeological thinking which still believed in the Piltdown Man . |
| 21 | Applying these notions to the particular contracts in question he decided that the solus system was both too recent and too variable for it to have become part of the " accepted machinery " . |
| 22 | After several days in Nairobi he took the train to Mombasa where he caught a ship to England ; there , soon after my brother Dermot was born , he rejoined my mother . |
| 23 | Venables , 50 , is the only player to have represented England at every level from schoolboy to full international , and during 15 years in management he has won two major trophies the Spanish championship with Barcelona and the FA Cup with Tottenham . |
| 24 | At other times in vacations he spent weeks doing hard reading in the library of Cambridge University and got good talks with Hoskyns . |
| 25 | Cranmer played no rugby after the war , and apart from a handful of matches during his two months in India he played no cricket during the hostilities . |
| 26 | But he pulled through , and after 14 months in hospital he was finally allowed home . |
| 27 | During his first two weeks in France he read no English newspaper and barely glanced at a French one . |
| 28 | After two weeks in Czechoslovakia he was climbing in a style usually reserved for winter . |
| 29 | When the CIA and MI6 approached Gehlen with the idea of tapping into Russian communications in Berlin he responded warmly and at once started to prepare a list of suitable sites where the zones ran close together , and offering opportunities for driving tunnels from one to another . |
| 30 | Throughout his chaotic years in Paris he continued to go to life classes , but he could not afford the five francs an hour for a model and so rarely had a chance to paint the nude , except for his girl-friends , and that , as he was beginning to realize , was expensive too . |