Example sentences of "in the [adj] [noun sg] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't actually say the words , but they were implicit in the final look he gave her before disappearing down the companionway . |
| 2 | In the final conversation he had with them , McQueen told Boswell and Johnson of his adventures in the 1745 Rebellion , when he had been part of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's invasion force of England and got as far as Derbyshire , and fought at Culloden . |
| 3 | But in the final hour he did deliver the goods , taking impromptu questions from the audience . |
| 4 | In the modern age he is expected to lead and the people look to him for solutions to their problems , but the chances of his being allowed to do what he needs to do are negligible . |
| 5 | He had hidden himself then in the deepest hole he could find because the lightning and the thunder alarmed him . |
| 6 | Let me tell you more , dear boy , ’ said Toby in the sonorous manner he adopts when he is either about to state an immortal truth , or browbeat you , or both . |
| 7 | In it he said of Mrs Thatcher , in the jocular way he addresses us all : ‘ I wish that cow would resign . ’ |
| 8 | In the small kitchen he said in a low voice , ‘ Are you OK ? ’ |
| 9 | Auguste caught a brief glimpse of himself in the small mirror he had unobtrusively arranged in order that he might keep an eye on events taking place behind his back ; the surreptitious addition of Mrs Marshall 's abominable Coralline pepper , for example , to an imperfect sauce . |
| 10 | Berger stood stripped to the waist in front of the wash-basin in the small bedroom he had been allocated and examined his face in the mirror . |
| 11 | ‘ I saw him as fleeing the violent campus situation in America for the peaceful English countryside on a conscious level , while on an unconscious level he would begin to set up the conflict in the small town he went to . |
| 12 | In the Great Charter he undertook to put out of the forest ‘ at once ’ the districts which he himself had afforested , and the rivers he had placed ‘ in defence ’ . |
| 13 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 14 | In the Minoan period he remained subordinate to his goddess , but at its end , as Zeus , he became much more important ; his original Minoan name , Velchanos , seems to have endured into the classical period as one of the titles attributed to Zeus on Crete . |
| 15 | Philip ran towards it and as he came round the slight bend in the wide path he saw the boy tugging at it . |
| 16 | As a poor boy in the Soviet Union he had , he pointed out , become chairman of the Supreme Council of Soviets , a job whose responsibilities compared even with those of running 20th Century Fox . |
| 17 | But even in the eastern region Mr Livingstone lost 10 constituencies more than last year , and in the southern region he lost 20 more . |
| 18 | Then in the 1979 paper he found that subjects placed the time of occurrence of this sensation only a few milliseconds after the peripheral stimulus which evoked it . |
| 19 | In the latter year he also published the massive and learned Northamptonshire Families for the Victoria County History ( 2 vols . ) . |
| 20 | But in the latter year he also published Neue teutsche [ sic ] Gesang nach Art der welschen Madrigalien und Canzonetten in which the weight of German words naturally affects the music ; when he sets translations of Italian texts he has also composed , the difference is startling : |
| 21 | ‘ Before we eat , let us thank God for the food in front of us , ’ said Mr Wopsle , in the deep voice he used in church . |
| 22 | He wanted to bask in the developing closeness he and Jordan were enjoying , surfing sensorial highs , and being utterly open , perhaps for the first time in his life . |
| 23 | In the Graeco-Roman period he was worshipped at Thebes in the Ptolemaic temple of Deir el-Medina , the village for the craftsmen who had build and decorated the royal tombs of the New Kingdom , and in the sanctuary of the mortuary temple of the Eighteenth Dynasty ruler Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri , which ad become a centre for healing . |
| 24 | Where , in the Report , Beveridge talked of the ‘ strong public opinion ’ in favour of subsistence pensions , in the private memorandum he contemptuously dismissed this as ‘ sentimental and political ’ , insisting that the state should retain the right to reduce pensions below subsistence on grounds of financial stringency or a fall in the cost of living , and warning of the dangers of a ‘ birthday present ’ mentality if there was no retirement condition . |
| 25 | He opened the familiar door , giving the aluminium plate a rub with his sleeve , but in the tiny vestibule he paused . |
| 26 | Another delay as the work train was slowly shunted along , and as there were no seats on the customer side of the counter in the tiny room he went out into the periodicals area . |
| 27 | Everywhere he went in the tiny house he saw her : sitting at the table , sewing , on her knees , blackleading the grate , laughing at him as she handed him his cup of tea or coffee , and holding up the doll she had dressed for him to admire . |
| 28 | In the upper section he is prepared for his beheading and there is a fine Salome ; below , in the vase of the pulpit , the saint preaches and baptizes Christ in the River Jordan . |
| 29 | After half an hour on the bed in the dry heat he was really enjoying himself and was perspiring profusely . |
| 30 | The minister himself recognizes this portrait but delights in the political clout he has as the treasury man on many such committees , able to range over the whole field of policy . |