Example sentences of "he in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the wall of his surprisingly modest flat , a street away from the stadium , is a framed picture of him in the hallowed yellow shirt of Brazil , taken before one of his 25 international appearances . |
| 2 | His VC was presented to him in the Western Desert by Montgomery , and he returned to New Zealand in 1943 after active service in Greece , Crete and North Africa . |
| 3 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 4 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
| 5 | She felt again the fear she had known when she walked into him in the dark passage . |
| 6 | Following him out of the office and down into the street , sitting beside him in the cab which took them to Covent Garden , sitting opposite him in the warm restaurant full of good smells , candlelight , fresh flowers , her predominant feeling was one of surprise . |
| 7 | Hurtling towards him in the swirling fog was a huge lorry powerless to stop on the icy carriageway . |
| 8 | Though the former England winger yesterday insisted he was content to remain with Leicester City , the club he joined from Darlington last summer , it is understood that moves are already underway to install him in the vacant Roker job . |
| 9 | Belinda met him in the front hall on his way to his sister 's room , and as expected he raised questioning eyebrows . |
| 10 | Morse looked around him in the front living room , slightly puzzled to find the carpet , the decoration , the furniture , all that little bit on the shabby side , with only the curtains looking bright and new , and ( in Morse 's opinion ) classy and tasteful . |
| 11 | It also provides the context in which to consider both the claim that for the later Foucault knowledge is absolutely determined , leaving him in the impossible situation of requiring something outside this for any prospect of critique , as well as the question of exactly how power and resistance are interdependent and to what extent they are separable . |
| 12 | Forlani , 66 , had on May 17 withdrawn his candidacy for the presidency after up to 60 members of parties participating in the former ruling coalition , including many DC deputies , had failed to vote for him in the fifth , sixth and seventh rounds . |
| 13 | Example 4:4 Turnover rent YIELDING AND PAYING THEREFOR by equal quarterly payments in advance on the usual quarter days : ( 1 ) the annual sum of £ ( " the basic rent " ) ; and ( 2 ) such sum as is calculated in accordance with the Schedule hereto ( " the turnover rent " ) SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule the following expressions have the following meanings : ( a ) " gross turnover " means the aggregate of all sums : ( i ) received by the tenant in return for goods supplied or services rendered in the course of any trade or business carried on by him in the demised property or partly in the demised property and partly elsewhere ; and ( ii ) payable to the tenant by any person in consideration of the use or occupation of the whole or any part of the demised property ( b ) " a rental year " means a period of twelve calendar months beginning on ( c ) " net turnover " means the gross turnover less : ( i ) any sum actually paid by the tenant to HM Commissioners of Customs and Excise by way of VAT or other tax chargeable on the supply of goods or services ; ( ii ) any sum refunded by the tenant to his customers in respect of defective or unsatisfactory goods or services ; ( iii ) per cent of any sums received by the tenant in return for services for which orders are received at the demised property but are performed wholly elsewhere ( d ) " qualified accountant " means a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ( 2 ) The turnover rent for a rental year shall be : ( a ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ and ( b ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ ( 3 ) Within one month after the beginning of each rental year ( time being of the essence ) the tenant shall deliver to the landlord a certificate signed by a qualified accountant of the tenant 's gross turnover and net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year . |
| 14 | And then just up and shoot him in the good old British way . |
| 15 | His illness would stand to him in the other place too . |
| 16 | ‘ And I am not talking to him in the other room . ’ |
| 17 | I mean I believe I could love him in the other way , his way , now . |
| 18 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
| 19 | Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place . |
| 20 | He said after the case that the Department of Trade and Industry had been ‘ rather petty ’ in prosecuting him in the first place . |
| 21 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 22 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 23 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 24 | ‘ I may have got the idea from him in the first place , but that 's all . |
| 25 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 26 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 27 | Why , one wonders , did they fire him in the first place ? |
| 28 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 29 | And one particularly thorough research study on boys growing up in London concluded that if a boy offends , the best way to prevent him from offending repeatedly is not to catch him in the first place ( West , 1992 : 104–11 ) ! |
| 30 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |