Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In normal spirits he seemed to need only two steps to cross a room . |
| 2 | In broad Scots he asked Selkirk for his authority , the soldier flourished a piece of parchment and told him to hurry . |
| 3 | In eight years he built his television services company , Carlton Communications , to a value of £1 billion . |
| 4 | In memorable phrases he spoke of things being ‘ changed utterly ’ as a ‘ terrible beauty ’ was born . |
| 5 | In political matters he supported American independence , ridiculing the ‘ very idea of distant possessions ’ . |
| 6 | In this memoirs he said that on 15 March he learned that Hassan was pressing Washington to admit the Shah . |
| 7 | There were rumours that in some cases he had . |
| 8 | In some forests he took for himself the profits of the minor pleas : a thirteenth-century Cumberland jury swore that if any man ‘ furtively ’ felled an oak in Inglewood Forest , then the warden 's duty was ‘ to attach his body according to the law of the forest ’ to answer before the Justice of the Forest at the Forest Eyre . |
| 9 | In some numbers he wrote half the contents ; in others , especially at the time of an operation on his eyes for glaucoma , little . |
| 10 | Nevertheless on such occasions he gave the impression to friends and acquaintances that in some ways he had mellowed . |
| 11 | Around this time his wage rate came to 2/3 a day , but he rarely worked more than about 10 days in any month , and in some months he did not work at all . |
| 12 | In spite of the strangeness of Eliot 's behaviour , however , few people begrudged him the happiness which in personal relations he had never experienced before : " He obviously needed to have a happy marriage , " Valerie Eliot said on a later occasion , " He could n't die until he had had it " . |
| 13 | Dr Alan Stewart describes how in six weeks he suffered from headaches , nausea , loss of libido , and physical and mental fatigue as his levels of vitamin B and zinc fell quickly . |
| 14 | Was it a freak of physiognomy , that even in such off-moments he looked so pugnacious , so determined ? |
| 15 | Now and then he was addressed in Anglic , either by the Khan or by one of his neighbours at the table , and in such cases he did his best to answer politely . |
| 16 | He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations . |
| 17 | In moral matters he confined himself solely to warning me of the dangers of masturbation . |
| 18 | In Absolute Beginners he tried to explore the energy of London in the Fifties . |
| 19 | Here Darwin 's questions about the creation of species recurred , for in these islands he found fresh variety . |
| 20 | In these years he published on American history and established his own private press , the Guyon House Press , which , however , came to an end in the air raids of December 1940 . |
| 21 | In these years he remembered , too , his early concern with the city , recording his debts to Thomson and Davidson . |
| 22 | In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze ‘ so as to avoid making an invidious distinction ’ . |
| 23 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 24 | In later years he drifted away from his original Liberalism and his later Labour ties , and in 1910–11 served as a Conservative nominee as alderman on the London county council . |
| 25 | In later years he thought that twice in his life , and twice only , he seriously wondered whether Frank was right , and he wrong , about religion . |
| 26 | At Dulwich and Oxford University he was an excellent athlete and Rugby Union Player , while in later years he became a good club cricketer and a member of I Zingari . |
| 27 | Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time . |
| 28 | In later years he turned to golf and became one of the most successful amateur players in the history of the sport in Canada . |
| 29 | In later years he rose to the position of shipping manager and had about four small steamers and a score of sailing barges to supervise . |
| 30 | In later years he visited the four dominions , for each of which he established a graduate studentship ; and Melbourne and New Zealand followed St Andrews in conferring honorary degrees . |