Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [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 | In her shocked silence he told her Pascoe had been found dead that morning but no one could get details . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In his gentle Spanish he said softly , ‘ I do n't see it that way . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In his new role he will be based at the Law Society Shop in the Strand . |
| 12 | Once confident in his new power he flew at flagpole height with the greatest of ease . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In his first round he chose Dr Who as his specialist subject . |
| 18 | In his first experiment he cut from a sheet of mica a normal hour-glass shaped test-piece ( Figure 6(b) ) . |
| 19 | In his first term he had to write for him an essay on the art of poetry . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I was slightly surprised that he should get to the front so early , in his other races he 's usually slow to get going . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In his first-class career he scored 37,665 runs ( 37.77 ) , with 63 centuries . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . ’ |
| 26 | In his latter years he took little day-to-day interest in racing , but was seen as an elder statesman of the turf . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The McLaggans had put grass halters round the necks of a few of Menzies ' horses ; Cameron rode on one ; from the back in his dark coat he looked like a preacher leading away the faithful to a field communion . |
| 29 | In his Fifth Report he argued that there were three or four major underlying principles under which all claims for exceptions could be brought . |
| 30 | If he was the cynosure of all eyes he did n't notice and in his present mood he would n't have been troubled if he had . |