Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] [noun pl] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at the end of June it still was not finished , the buyer informed the seller that if it was not ready in another four weeks he would then regard the contract as repudiated . |
| 2 | He breathes , digests , lifts an arm , takes the next step , without thinking how to do it , and if bad health forces him to analyse and choose in such peripheral matters he is sorry to be distracted from his central concerns . |
| 3 | During the first visit he was in such low spirits he could not bring himself to meet even the faithful Cottle ; during the second , in early April , optimism and humour had sufficiently returned for him to relish a meeting with one especially talkative woman on his homeward walk . |
| 4 | In 83 first-class matches he scored 3,845 runs . |
| 5 | He tried making snowballs as he had in Britain only to find that in these low temperatures he was left with a handful of flour-like snow that simply blew away when he threw it . |
| 6 | In these earlier years he eschewed biography as a path to understanding . |
| 7 | It is paradoxical , perhaps , that in these post-war years he came to enjoy his greatest fame and , in the end , happiness . |
| 8 | In all 16 cases he found nerve damage . |
| 9 | In all first-class matches he captured 1,956 wickets at an average of 14.87 , the best average for any bowler taking more than 1,500 wickets in the twentieth century . |
| 10 | In all those appointments he was popular both as preacher and pastor , but he kept up his musical activities , graduating D.Mus . |
| 11 | In all these respects he reminds us today of Schleiermacher . |
| 12 | But in all these years he has certainly been spared those other , uninvited , distractions which sweep over our lives , a snowstorm of diversion and entertainment and half-understood knowledge . |
| 13 | In all three raids he claimed he had a gun and at one building society he told staff he was armed with a hand grenade . |
| 14 | In those Whig-dominated years he found that England was preponderantly not Whig but Tory ; he found that a corruption-wielding establishment could win elections only in the , numerically preponderant , boroughs and even then only at the cost of an enormously expensive patronage machine . |
| 15 | And in those early days he was careful with money . |
| 16 | In those early days he was n't very relaxed with them . ’ |
| 17 | In those early months he had wanted her to know the magnitude of what he had done and that he had done it for her . |
| 18 | And in those few moments he looked so much like his father , Major John Lewis , the man who had first taken her virginity , and later betrayed her husband . |
| 19 | It was just eighty-eight days since he had recaptured his capital of Paris , yet in those few days he had shown the world how an emperor made armies . |
| 20 | In other words , I saw the town as being completely different towards him at the outset of the film , and then in snide little ways he would turn them against him because he carried his violence with him . |
| 21 | In any other circumstances he would have warmed to her ; he had found her especially disturbing . |
| 22 | In other public statements he was openly critical of the Lord Chancellor and his department , accusing it of being secretive and antiquated . |
| 23 | In two other places he considered that screens were needed . |
| 24 | It could well be useful in certain respiratory conditions he thought , but there was a danger that just as a candle burns out much quicker in oxygen , one might ‘ live out too fast ’ . |
| 25 | In most other respects he seems to have been anxious to preserve the status quo , and there was relatively little reshuffling of office . |
| 26 | In most other respects he seems to have been anxious to preserve the status quo , and there was relatively little reshuffling of office . |
| 27 | In both these cases he rejects the ties of family . |