Example sentences of "in this [noun] [that] he " in BNC.

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1 So intent was he in this quest that he , and one presumes the rest of his campaign staff , failed to notice the apparent contradictions in his official campaign photograph .
2 So I says What we can do is I 'll do an hour for you , we 'll move the piano and other bits , bicycles in this case that he had , we 'll shift them to the house close by , drop two men off , and one man 'll come and do the remainder of the work .
3 It was in this mood that he decided to bring The Criterion to an end .
4 There were , however , some true ministers , typified by the two witnesses of Revelations xx , and it was in this sense that he described himself as ‘ an unworthy witness ’ of the Lord .
5 It was in this spirit that he conducted , round the back of the law , the contra operation .
6 The song ‘ You are my Heart 's Delight ’ from Lehár 's operetta The Land of Smiles ( 1929 ) was one of his most famous , and it was in this work that he first came to England in 1931 .
7 It was in this way that he was thinking when , with Lili by his side and their suitcases on a trolley he would abandon at the tube-station entrance , he looked up and met the eyes of Adam Verne-Smith .
8 It was in this way that he made many of his policy decisions .
9 It was in this way that he discovered that not all Morris 's application with the typewriter was devoted to ‘ In Years Gone By . ’
10 Charity felt the same mystery in this place that he felt , that his mother had felt before him .
11 It was surely in this street that he and old George Percival had picked up two excellent vegetarian take-aways when they were both detective-sergeants on Division .
12 Clive had got so used to being able to fool everyone in this circle that he was unnerved by her obvious clear-sightedness .
13 It will have been in this connection that he wrote the discarded pieces " On music and words " , which largely rework part " of " The Dionysiac Philosophy " of the previous year , but whose copious references to Schopenhauer , opera and Beethoven 's Choral Symphony relate directly to one side of the Wagner problem , though without any explicit stress on that fact . "
14 It was in this book that he was able to show me the first reference to the Santa Maria .
15 His ‘ ardour … for his books of chivalry ’ ( OMF iii 5 ) is described in Cervantes ' first chapter : ‘ so great was his curiosity and infatuation in this regard that he even sold many acres of tillable land in order to be able to buy and read the books that he loved , and he would carry home with him as many of them as he could obtain . ’
16 It was in this role that he removed the relics of the Three Wise Men from Milan , and placed them in Cologne Cathedral , where they are still found to this day .
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