Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [noun pl] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had heard her do that in their single days he would never have married her . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He quickly came to be on close terms both with Edward himself , in whose Scottish wars he regularly served , and with his heir . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was slightly surprised that he should get to the front so early , in his other races he 's usually slow to get going . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . ’ |
| 11 | In his latter years he took little day-to-day interest in racing , but was seen as an elder statesman of the turf . |
| 12 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 13 | Though reserved in his interpersonal relationships he nevertheless displays good interpersonal skills . |
| 14 | And what was the greater plan that Chant hoped in his final hours he was a part of ? |
| 15 | In his final years he tried to revive his career in an American television series about martial arts called The Master ( 1986 ) but it failed and another series never got beyond the pilot stage . |
| 16 | Ned Corvan was a song-writer , fiddler and performer in the working-class concert halls and pubs of Tyne side in North-East England during the 1850s and early 1860s ; in his final years he also worked in the first of the new kind of music halls , owned by commercially ambitious entrepreneurs and orientated more towards a nationally organized market and production system . |
| 17 | In his final years he witnessed the introduction of vaccination ( 1798 ) and the rejection of inoculation by the majority of doctors . |
| 18 | Because in his shining colours he reflected her back in coral and violet , a shimmer of organdie , pearl and secure . |
| 19 | In his 42 Tests he has landed 588 points . |
| 20 | In his sober moods he was inordinately proud of his beautiful daughter . |
| 21 | In his earliest appearances he is ‘ Richard son of Siward ’ indicating English ancestry and the name of a father or earlier progenitor . |
| 22 | In his early teens he turned to reading poetry , then to writing it — and , though he showed his poems to his sisters , he kept them secret from his mother . |
| 23 | In his early months he sought to stimulate the interest of the Cambridge Board in the appointment of resident tutors to pioneer development in the eastern counties of the District . |
| 24 | If the young barrister has any spare time in his early years he should use it to prolong his pupillage in fact if not in name . |
| 25 | In his early years he sailed in the ships of the Dieppe armateur , Jean Ango . |
| 26 | In his early years he appeared in concert parties . |
| 27 | In his early days he had been clerk of the race-course , but is more well known as the fiery Salvationist he became after his conversion . |
| 28 | That 's why David could say , against thee , thee only have I sinned after he 's committed adultery , after he 's committed murder , after he 's involved other people in his nefarious deeds he can still say I 've committed sin against God ! |
| 29 | In his four hands he holds a sceptre , a string of beads , a bow and a book of scripture . |
| 30 | In his drugged dreams he saw the silent faces crying ; he saw the loving mouth distorted with grief ; he knew about the humiliation and the want — all his fault , his fault , his responsibility , his wickedness , his weakness , his sin , his sacrificial past , the victim to what end — who was murdered at that powerful stone circle near Keswick ? |