Example sentences of "[coord] in [adj] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Under-Secretary of the Navy in Wilson 's administration from 1913 , he had warmly supported American entry into the First World War , and in 1919 he had wanted the USA to join the League of Nations . |
| 2 | And in 1913 we have Pound writing of Yeats , who had just published ‘ The Grey Rock ’ , that the latter is ‘ very fine , but his syntax is getting obscurer than Browning 's ’ , then confessing : ‘ I wonder which is worse , to die in the aromatic subtlety of a disappearing cadence ( à la ME ) or to stodge one 's nobility into an incomprehensible narrative , à la The Eagle ’ . |
| 3 | This knowledge is unfortunately of little help in actually factorising f and in general we have to be content with approximation methods . |
| 4 | Er , and in general we have a , er , panel of the non-executive directors who set the directors ' salary in relation to the other directors I am also on that panel er , but obviously not in relation to my own salary . |
| 5 | Salieri had never got on with Leopold II , and in 1790 he had been released from most of his court obligations , remaining as a kind of honorary kapellmeister . |
| 6 | I I think you were all here listening to the erm pensioners before you were they were talking about their ideas which were also our ideas in our er report on the designated ownership of , of the pension funds and in particular they had a couple of ideas which you may have heard about having the word pension in the in the names , just technical points , er pension in the names of er of the funds and and people who were er giving advice on behalf of them . |
| 7 | The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development . |
| 8 | In 1905 , at age 48 , he walked 200 yards , ran 200 yards , cycled 200 yards , rowed 200 yards and swam 200 yards , all in under a total of eight minutes , and in 1903 he had swum five miles in the Thames ( two of them against the tide ) . |
| 9 | The defendant squatter , Tillson , had occupied several acres of agricultural land belonging to the council since 1967 , but in 1983 he had apparently acknowledged the plaintiff council 's title by becoming their tenant of the land . |
| 10 | He and Richard must have heard about these things but in general they had failed to register . |
| 11 | But in private he had already told Lord Home that he should prepare to succeed him , and the ‘ customary processes ’ duly resulted in Home being chosen . |
| 12 | After the execution of Majorian , Ricimer appointed Severus as emperor ; four years later he agreed to the elevation of Anthemius , but in 472 he had Anthemius executed and replaced him with Olybrius . |
| 13 | Eliot had known Lawrence 's work for some time , but in 1931–2 he had grown particularly interested in that writer , whose ‘ travels to more primitive lands ’ and use of Mexican divinities in The Plumed Serpent were physical embodiment of Eliot 's anthropological reading and a likely reason for that title , After Strange Gods . |
| 14 | But in this I have . |
| 15 | As Mr Cardinal had indicated , M. Dupont had not arrived in a good temper ; I can not recall now all the various things that had upset him since his arrival in England a few days previously , but in particular he had obtained some painful sores on his feet while sightseeing around London and these , he feared , were growing septic . |
| 16 | Lewyn 's works at Carlisle and Roxburgh were completed by 1387 , but in 1380 he had contracted with John of Gaunt , Duke of Lancaster [ q.v. ] , |