Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ask you to believe that in normal circumstances he would not behave like that , but he is still not quite himself … the death of his friend , you know … ’ |
| 2 | In normal spirits he seemed to need only two steps to cross a room . |
| 3 | It could be argued that anyone who is idiot enough to send a cheque for thousands of pounds to a salesman of shares in unquoted companies he has never heard of deserves to lose it all . |
| 4 | In broad Scots he asked Selkirk for his authority , the soldier flourished a piece of parchment and told him to hurry . |
| 5 | In eight years he built his television services company , Carlton Communications , to a value of £1 billion . |
| 6 | After being educated in private schools he was apprenticed to a mechanical engineer , and before the age of twenty-one had attained a position of responsibility in the works . |
| 7 | In memorable phrases he spoke of things being ‘ changed utterly ’ as a ‘ terrible beauty ’ was born . |
| 8 | In political matters he supported American independence , ridiculing the ‘ very idea of distant possessions ’ . |
| 9 | His wealth made him one of the principal paymasters of the English Catholic community , and in political circles he was generally seen as the leader of Catholic opinion . |
| 10 | In foreign affairs he was always a consistent supporter of the principle of national sell-determination — ‘ The nations shall be great and free ’ ( Sonnet : Sept. 1802 ; Near Dover ) . |
| 11 | On 23 February / 7 March , five days after his accession , Alexander told the ambassadors of Austria and Prussia that in foreign affairs he would adhere to the late tsar 's principles . |
| 12 | In commercial affairs he was a bold speculator . |
| 13 | The infant was at once created Prince of Wales , to indicate that in Jacobite eyes he was the real heir to the throne of England , and the Young Pretender was soon to become universally known as Bonnie Prince Charlie . |
| 14 | Punks were not normally aggressive , and though he adhered to his normal practice of avoiding eye contact in public places he was fairly relaxed about them . |
| 15 | In repeated versions he explains laboriously that Gandalf forced Bilbo on Thorin out of some Valinorean ‘ foresight ’ ; or because he knew hobbits were stealthy ; or because he thought Bilbo had the right ‘ mix ’ of Took and Baggins ; while as for the word ‘ burglar ’ , it was all a dwarvish misunderstanding . |
| 16 | In this memoirs he said that on 15 March he learned that Hassan was pressing Washington to admit the Shah . |
| 17 | In some cases he will be the driver of the vehicle . |
| 18 | In some cases he may be able to obtain an injunction to restrain the breach and in any case he will be adequately compensated by his remedy in damages for breach of contract as his damage can scarcely be other than financial . |
| 19 | In some cases he was brilliantly successful , as with the ‘ irresistibly , attracting and engaging ’ ( but also outrageously insensitive ) Robert Pott , his friend for thirty years . |
| 20 | In Surere 's province , there had been many transgressions , despite the loss of privilege which was the only punishment he had dared impose , though there were rumours that in some cases he would have preferred to apply the death penalty . |
| 21 | There were rumours that in some cases he had . |
| 22 | In some cases he may provide an after-sales service . |
| 23 | I 'm might say , what I 'm , I 'm not saying that film but in some , in some cases he do n't , you know , there has always been he do n't in this a lot of people . |
| 24 | In some games he was just called The Master . |
| 25 | In some areas he could plant his land with windmills . |
| 26 | In some forests he took for himself the profits of the minor pleas : a thirteenth-century Cumberland jury swore that if any man ‘ furtively ’ felled an oak in Inglewood Forest , then the warden 's duty was ‘ to attach his body according to the law of the forest ’ to answer before the Justice of the Forest at the Forest Eyre . |
| 27 | The stock editor generally concentrated on stock revision and supervision of withdrawals , but in some authorities he or she also played a large part in the selection of new books . |
| 28 | In some respects he is extremely energetic . |
| 29 | But in some respects he seems to be left over from a previous age . |
| 30 | In some numbers he wrote half the contents ; in others , especially at the time of an operation on his eyes for glaucoma , little . |