Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] [noun sg] he " in BNC.

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1 In that final settlement he can be influenced by , without necessarily even remembering , every relevant experience throughout the whole of his life .
2 In that ascetic age he earned a strange renown for his childlessness ; it was attributed , rightly or wrongly , to celibacy , and this was regarded as a sign of virtue .
3 In that unhappy mood he went to Paris to meet the designer Balanchine had stipulated , Dorothea Tanning , who followed the surrealist manner she had previously applied to one of Balanchine 's own ballets , Night Shadow .
4 The discovery that he was still here , that his heart had found time , in that sinister cell he inhabited , to entrench itself in the obsessions of his lifetime , and that he believed himself to be in contact with the ghost of the dead king , were complications Huy could have done without .
5 Graveney insists that Hick should go back to basics , and remain in that classic position he is in at the start of the bowler 's run-up — to stand sideways-on , bat on the ground , knees slightly bent , feet about shoulder width apart , and head up and still with both eyes level .
6 Even in that scant garment he was very hot and sweaty .
7 How he disciplined himself to make ends meet in that difficult time he explained in his book What To Do When Someone Has Debt Problems , A Practical Survival Guide ( 1985 ) , in the Introduction to which he wrote :
8 Happier ? he said , his blue eyes fixed on my face in that mad way he sometimes has .
9 The right side of his face was a mass of scratches , there was a sticking plaster on his ear , and his chest was heavily bandaged , but even in that sickly light he seemed bright-eyed and calm .
10 It is just that in that particular situation he had to act as he did , and to have acted differently would have meant that he would have been in the wrong though not for the same reason .
11 He was simply laughing at her in that condescending way he had .
12 In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game .
13 In that clear air he felt himself settling into his new skin .
14 While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back .
15 In this self-righteous mood he drove home .
16 In this new position he could see a picture of a woman hanging on the wall opposite .
17 And if in this new life he was to be alone … well , he had been alone for most of his life .
18 Nevertheless , now that he had come to live in this new house he was aware that he would probably be an object of interest to his neighbours .
19 The point is here that he has mentioned in his press release a number of okay local people , and by doing this in this particular way he has greatly increased the possibility and probability of ending up with a piece in the local newspaper .
20 But the most important thing about Lord Robertson was that in this particular case he was even more prejudiced than Lord Grant , although in the light of all that had recently occurred , with far less excuse .
21 But Herschel 's equipment was not sensitive enough , and in this particular investigation he failed .
22 In this exhaustive treatment he makes some helpful distinctions between the Kingdom and the Church which are presented below in summary form :
23 Either it must be said , in traditional terms , that , together with his human nature , he also had , in one person , a divine nature ; or in some other way he must be held to be unique .
24 When she became engrossed in some new work he made her preoccupation an excuse for drawing away from her .
25 In some indefinable way he just added to her restlessness .
26 In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her .
27 In some frustrated way he felt in himself a deep affront at the prodigality and profuseness of life around him .
28 ‘ Everard 's wife has flu , ’ Rupert explained , ‘ so we owe the pleasure of your company this evening to that rather unfortunate occurrence , ’ he went on , feeling that in some obscure way he was being complimentary neither to Penelope nor to the absent Mildred Bone , but not quite seeing how else he could have put it .
29 She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance .
30 In some peculiar way he seemed to be getting into his stride .
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