Example sentences of "and in the [adj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first picture he catches John Snow off Daniel 's bowling and in the second he celebrates as Murray catches Alan Ward off Holding . |
| 2 | In 1885 a Scottish Secretary was appointed , and in the 1920s he was elevated to Secretary of State . |
| 3 | Hall 's devotion to America became a byword and in the 1880s he was called ‘ an American preacher ’ although one listener added , ‘ though allusions to things American are frequent in the sermons … he is heartily English in thought and speech ’ . |
| 4 | The collections grew too large and in the 1880s he added the tall building next door . |
| 5 | Second only to the family , his chief love was for the North of Scotland and in the mid-fifties he realised a life-time ambition by becoming the owner of a 26,000-acre estate in Sutherland and , typical of the man , here he turned this unit into a sound agricultural business as well as a sporting estate . |
| 6 | In 1545 he was one of those appointed to devise new means of tackling the problem and in the 1550s he took a leading part in drawing up constitutions for the city 's new or refounded hospitals . |
| 7 | And in the 1930s he had been unforgiving towards these friends of his youth . |
| 8 | But even in the 1820s some of his work had been on electricity and magnetism , which would now be thought of as physics ; and in the 1830s he moved decidedly in this direction . |
| 9 | He was an assessment commissioner for Westminster and Middlesex in 1649 and in the 1650s he held a number of minor central and local offices and was a commissioner of oyer and terminer . |