Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] [subord] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Frenchman 's voice betrayed no trace of humour , and his tanned , leathery face remained set in unsmiling lines as he spoke . |
| 2 | Also , God deals with different people in different ways as He sees fit . |
| 3 | This fellow 's excuse for putting his shovel into the public purse is that he is executive producer of the Wogan show , something he keeps to himself in public places if he has any sense . |
| 4 | Another great missionary , St Anskar , had to engage in similar arguments when he preached ( under the sponsorship of Louis the Pious ) to the Swedes at the prosperous port of Birka in the ninth century . |
| 5 | ‘ YO , this is Dalek exercises , mon ! ’ booms Derrick Evans , his skin-tight leotard stretching in impossible directions as he throws himself around the GMTV studio . |
| 6 | A Northumberland vet , Colin Barwise-Munro , put it in explicit terms when he said : ‘ In 1921 , the incidence of dystocia or difficult calvings in the European herd was reckoned in one survey to be no more than 3 per cent . |
| 7 | Roentgen was experimenting with electrical discharges in evacuated tubes when he observed the emission of rays which made nearby materials fluoresce , i.e. emit light when the rays fell upon them . |
| 8 | Davison 's investments failed , leaving the family in straitened circumstances when he died in 1893 . |
| 9 | ( It reached its zenith in Beautiful Losers when he referred to ‘ my factory ’ , his metaphor for Judaism as , ‘ a pile of rags and labels , a distraction , an insult to my spirit . ’ ) |
| 10 | A judge in Columbus , Ohio , announced that Reynolds should receive £4.5m in lost earnings and £14m in punitive damages after he was banned for two years for allegedly failing a drugs test . |
| 11 | A little boy ran up , face dirty , clothes dishevelled , his breath coming in short gasps so he could hardly speak . |
| 12 | Martin strode quickly towards him , picked up the phone , said , ‘ Yes ? ’ then listened ; and as he did so his head began to move in small jerks as he looked from side to side . |
| 13 | Starting from the left-hand side , Martin works across the picture , completing the work in small areas as he goes along . |
| 14 | In the mid-1930s Seebohm Rowntree was in a particularly strong position to comment authoritatively on changes in living conditions when he repeated his 1899 enquiry in York . |
| 15 | The question may arise as to whether the decision to consent to or reject treatment is made by a patient who has the capacity to make the decision , in other words whether he is fit to make it , or whether he has genuinely made the decision . |
| 16 | How does he reconcile that with the rather desperate hints given by the Secretary of State in recent weeks as he vainly tried to rally his troops in the recent by-election ? |
| 17 | His visits continued in subsequent years while he was in Cambridge building a new range of King 's Hall in 1490–5 , now part of the east range of Trinity College with the lower stage of the Great Gate . |
| 18 | Merckx was known as ‘ the cannibal ’ , so often did he scoop up the prizes , even in minor events when he might have been expected to allow minor or local riders to have their day . |