Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun sg] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other victim , Gary Robson , was working on a Colchester Mascot machine when his gloves got entangled in a rotating bar he had tried to stop wobbling . |
| 2 | She could see in his eyes that he was thinking the same , as in a flat tone he told her , ‘ Point taken . |
| 3 | In a curious way he would miss Tibbles . |
| 4 | In a curious way he seemed more formidable than before . |
| 5 | In a telling passage he provides part of his rationale : |
| 6 | In a philosophical mood he would describe his loneliness as an occupational hazard . |
| 7 | He may , for instance , have a general belief that the woman 's wishes in sexual matters are immaterial , so that in a specific instance he does not bother either to enquire or to think about them . |
| 8 | singing in a strange voice he did not recognise . |
| 9 | But in a strange way he has done wonders for our social life . |
| 10 | In a strong wind he must refuse to move until sufficient additional crew arrive to handle the glider safely . |
| 11 | Indeed , Mr Wolski rarely looked anyone full in the face , seeming meek and quiet as if in a strong wind he might almost have been blown away . |
| 12 | In a hasty landing he hit a bump and cracked a mainspar . |
| 13 | In a seminal article he described the " characteristic irregularity of labour patterns before the coming of large-scale machine- powered industry " . |
| 14 | In a similar way he might have been surprised by the figure he cut in prose or come to that in life . |
| 15 | Holland , Stead , and others wrote warmly of him , but in a wider circle he was more respected than loved . |
| 16 | In a mild voice he had just asked the porter to come up , with some story about a tap dripping in the kitchen . |
| 17 | Radcliffe-Brown 's lifelong conviction was that by a kind of Newtonian revolution , replacing the historical speculations of ethnology by a scientific methodology , social anthropology might become ‘ a theoretical natural science of society ’ , in a sociological tradition he traced to Montesquieu , Comte , Herbert Spencer [ q.v. ] , and Durkheim . |
| 18 | In a split second he made his mind up and decided to be decisive . |
| 19 | if , because , he saw what was going on , in a split second he saw what was happening , I mean it was , it was |
| 20 | In a saucy note he told her : ‘ It 's funny you like men with moustaches . |
| 21 | Listening to this I on the whole thought that in a real sense he never really quite answered them , on the other hand he made every single person look silly . |
| 22 | Then in a cool voice he dictated the four letters while she tried to keep up with him . |
| 23 | His timing was exact : even when he moved in a clumsy way he never knocked anything over . |
| 24 | They knew he spent his weekends at the flying club , but had n't got around to totting up how many hours of blind flying instruction in a twin-engined Cessna he was buying , nor how much each such hour cost . |
| 25 | He must be critical of himself — and others — since in a changing world he must constantly be questioning his methods , his direction and the administration of his responsibilities . |
| 26 | In a famous sentence he says that ‘ Person … is a forensic term appropriating actions and their merit ; and so belongs only to intelligent agents capable of a law , and happiness and misery . ’ |
| 27 | Germany 's World Cup maestro believes that in a former life he popped up as a plant — or an animal . |
| 28 | In contrast , in a one-to-one relationship he was an incomparable teacher . |
| 29 | In a slurred voice he blamed Docherty calling him ‘ a liar and a bullshitter ’ . |
| 30 | And neither do you , for Levi has never played in an Open Championship , although in a thoughtful moment he will say that he may have erred in not entering for the Old Course last year , and that now he may well play The Open . |