Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In My Early Life he says I had picked up a wide vocabulary and a liking for the feel of words fitting and falling into their places like pennies in the slot . |
| 2 | My father worked on the railway and in my conscious life he was a supervisor , he was called an inspector , Inspector . |
| 3 | If he had heard her do that in their single days he would never have married her . |
| 4 | Leicester have got so many men back in their own half he 'll do well to make anything of this Collimore . |
| 5 | Yusuf who , at the 50-akce level , served as muderris/mufti successively in Larende , Amid , Aleppo , Seyitgazi and again in Aleppo , in which last post he died in 1981/1573 ; of Molla Akmal al-Din ( Ekmeleddin ) , muderris/mufti between 972/1565 and his death in 983/1575 successively in Kefe , Rhodes and Cyprus , where he was the first muderris/mufti after the conquest ( 978–9/1570–1 ) with 60 akce a day ; and of Molla Yalaya al-Ajami who , after teaching at the haric level at the medrese of Sultan Orhan in Iznik , went on to the muderris/muftiliks of Seyitgazi , Aleppo and Damascus , dying in the last-named post in 986/1578 . |
| 6 | In her shocked silence he told her Pascoe had been found dead that morning but no one could get details . |
| 7 | And yet that high broad forehead was his , the little tilted nose was his , his the pointed — although in her case , flat — ears , and in her huge eyes he saw his own little ones . |
| 8 | In its four quarters he kept his four ‘ wives ’ , each totally oblivious of the others , until sheer misfortune led to his discovery and his just deserts . |
| 9 | This was a declaration of sorts , however lightly made , and one which Dr Neil had not thought to make to any woman in any form , and before Sally-Anne could take in its full meaning he rapidly continued , ‘ And now let us stop providing entertainment for the passers-by . |
| 10 | No comment was made by either demonstrators or critical readers — or by the ambassador — about the kindness of Shlomo Green , the old Israeli who showed such compassion towards the Palestinian in whose former home he was now living . |
| 11 | He quickly came to be on close terms both with Edward himself , in whose Scottish wars he regularly served , and with his heir . |
| 12 | Music hall had shown Eliot that the chorus of the Greek drama in whose primitive origins he had exhibited such interest , could still work on the modern stage . |
| 13 | In his gentle Spanish he said softly , ‘ I do n't see it that way . |
| 14 | But in his two lectures he contented himself with a couple of scattered references to " Apolline clarity " and tragedy 's — actually Shakespearean tragedy 's — " Dionysiac " quality . |
| 15 | In his new role he will be based at the Law Society Shop in the Strand . |
| 16 | Once confident in his new power he flew at flagpole height with the greatest of ease . |
| 17 | In his first scene he established an unshakeable authority , which , Charles knew , was bound to strengthen the total collapse of the character in the second act . |
| 18 | Ken did and Jackie promptly produced results : on his first day 's testing he was as quick as Bruce McLaren ; in his first race he won and scored eleven victories in thirteen starts . |
| 19 | He was ordained deacon in 1870 , and priest in 1872 , but in his first curacy he fell foul of both his vicar and his bishop for his heterodox beliefs ; the former asked him to leave the parish and the latter delayed his ordination . |
| 20 | In his first years he developed his interests in stratigraphy of the Chalk and in Pleistocene and Recent deposits , before he was transferred to the Lake District . |
| 21 | In his first round he chose Dr Who as his specialist subject . |
| 22 | In his first experiment he cut from a sheet of mica a normal hour-glass shaped test-piece ( Figure 6(b) ) . |
| 23 | In his first term he had to write for him an essay on the art of poetry . |
| 24 | Reagan 's notoriously detached style of management made high-quality staff essential , and in his first term he appears to have been particularly well served by those responsible for ushering his economic policy proposals through congress . |
| 25 | I was slightly surprised that he should get to the front so early , in his other races he 's usually slow to get going . |
| 26 | During the five minutes that he spoke about the Bill in his 52-minute speech he was floored by his own seconds — Conservative Back Benchers — when they expressed their concern . |
| 27 | In his first-class career he scored 37,665 runs ( 37.77 ) , with 63 centuries . |
| 28 | Hogarth also lived there , but he was often at his business address in Leicester Fields , and in his latter years he became ‘ Sergeant Painter ’ to the King . |
| 29 | In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’ |
| 30 | In his latter years he took little day-to-day interest in racing , but was seen as an elder statesman of the turf . |