Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun sg] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scholes 's case is the more telling in that he is far from being a conservative opponent of all recent developments in theory ; he has written favourably of structuralism , and unsympathetically about fictional realism ( for which , indeed , he has been attacked by Tallis ) , and elsewhere in Textual Power he finds deconstructive reading — as opposed to the theory underlying it — a useful critical method . |
| 2 | Back in civvy street he landed a job at the Strand Cornerhouse in London ; from there a number of jobs with skilled confectioners allowed him to accumulate the experience needed to go it alone . |
| 3 | A long , lean man with an ascetic face , he looked the celibate monk he had always been , but in private conversation he was unpompous , outgoing , witty . |
| 4 | Even in private conversation he would explain how his client could not possibly have broken into the house in the way of which he was accused , because he was far too drunk at the time , and so on . |
| 5 | In private conversation he told Asquith " I am afraid that I shall have to show myself very vicious Mr Asquith this session . |
| 6 | Aloof in temperament , in private life he was pious , charitable , and of a simple way of living . |
| 7 | In private life he was very generous , and gave a large sum anonymously to St Edmund Hall , the first £10,000 characteristically arriving in a dirty used envelope . |
| 8 | In thunderous silence he raced to the traffic lights and had to brake hard as the lights changed . |
| 9 | In each trial he won a trophy given to the top twenty percent . |
| 10 | He had five victories in 1986 , another six in 1987 , though in each season he had to settle for runner-up place in the Championship . |
| 11 | In each embassy he knew that had a Legal Attaché 's office there was a lady who looked like everyone 's mother , and who did the confidential typing and the greeting downstairs . |
| 12 | With a shoe clutched in each hand he was unable to make a grab for the rougher stones that might have saved him from disaster . |
| 13 | From the king 's standpoint , the vital consequence was that in each county he had a loyal cadre of men whose services and renders he could call on directly when he chose . |
| 14 | This ‘ immediacy ’ of meaning in oral society he relates to the society 's functional needs , citing Malinowski 's claim that ‘ in the Trobriands the outer world was only named in so far as it yielded useful things ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 15 | And in that instant he paused to look into her face , causing her to glance up automatically at him . |
| 16 | In that sense he has something in common with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 17 | In that sense he expressed the anxiety of Victorians who were ‘ wandering between two worlds , one dead , the other powerless to be born ’ . |
| 18 | In that sense he belongs to the past . |
| 19 | If any worshipper do reverence with faith to any God whatever , I make his faith firm , And in that faith he reverences his God and gains his desires , For it is I who bestow them . |
| 20 | And in that faith he reverences his God and gains his desires , For it is I who bestow them . |
| 21 | Later in that day he was in the town centre when his school was breaking up . |
| 22 | But it says humble yourself under the hand , under the mighty hand of God , then in that day he will lift you up , he will exult you ! |
| 23 | In that taproom he decided to push the matter further and Catesby gave him his chance . |
| 24 | In that state he gave it to the boy who set off on his half-mile walk . |
| 25 | In that dream he saw a vision of loveliness : himself as Foreign Secretary . |
| 26 | In that capacity he would be acting as an insolvency practitioner and must be qualified so to act . |
| 27 | In that capacity he had presided over a campaign against corruption , and more positively over a relaxation of the restrictions upon private trade and local government . |
| 28 | While in that capacity he devised an ingenious method of casting railway chairs , and also designed the wrought-iron roof of the New Street Station in Birmingham , which with a span of 211 feet was the largest iron roof at the time of its completion . |
| 29 | Auguste was pontificating in that voice he used solely for discussing cuisine , a mixture of reverence , excitement , practicality and anticipation . |
| 30 | I said to Russell I 'd love to go in that helicopter he said Lyn you 're pissed . |