Example sentences of "[subord] in [num] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 2 | If in one way he seemed much more human , more normally fallible , than before , that was tainted by what seemed like a lack of virginity in the telling . |
| 3 | The most daunting problem facing Louis Gerstner is that as yet he has absolutely no idea just how much he does n't know — and he will be Superman if in six months he has more than scratched the surface on that problem . |
| 4 | Which was fitting , since in one sense he had created it , had made these folk to people it . |
| 5 | When in Four Quartets he was concerned to state or develop a theme , he frequently relapsed into flatness or banality . |
| 6 | But when in one class he had taken the register and pronounced their names correctly , there had been some laughter from non-Indian children ( who were a minority in the class ) but floods of embarrassed giggles from Asian children , who seemed to prefer their names to be mispronounced in school . |
| 7 | For one thing , she said , they could hardly scrape up enough money for one deck passage , let alone two , for in two years he had sold only three paintings for a few pounds . |