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 | 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 . |
| 6 | In memorable phrases he spoke of things being ‘ changed utterly ’ as a ‘ terrible beauty ’ was born . |
| 7 | In political matters he supported American independence , ridiculing the ‘ very idea of distant possessions ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In commercial affairs he was a bold speculator . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But Mr Heath was savagely criticised by the press and the public , and friends of Mr Major believe that in similar circumstances he would be unlikely to hang on . |
| 16 | As a price for his reduction of the rebels , Louis forced from the very reluctant abbot the recognition that in temporal matters he was subject to the decision of the royal court . |
| 17 | In serious cases he also performed an operation called superior check ligament desmotomy , which involves cutting the superior check ligament just above the back of the knee , which has the effect of reducing loading on the superficial flexor tendon . |
| 18 | In spite of the strangeness of Eliot 's behaviour , however , few people begrudged him the happiness which in personal relations he had never experienced before : " He obviously needed to have a happy marriage , " Valerie Eliot said on a later occasion , " He could n't die until he had had it " . |
| 19 | The origins of Osiris are shrouded in mystery but in early times he was a fertility god , whose death and rebirth were connected with the cycle of the agricultural year . |
| 20 | However , in early days he seems to have led a sunny existence . |
| 21 | Though Scott was not particularly interested in early editions he nevertheless owned several . |
| 22 | In moral matters he confined himself solely to warning me of the dangers of masturbation . |
| 23 | In Absolute Beginners he tried to explore the energy of London in the Fifties . |
| 24 | In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze ‘ so as to avoid making an invidious distinction ’ . |
| 25 | But at the sight of all those senior conspirators standing uncomfortably around in rented tailcoats he ca n't help laughing . |
| 26 | In any case , although some of the speeches became tougher ( in tabloid terms he began to slam and lash Labour ) , his delivery has never matched the words . |
| 27 | And yet , although he was a scientific naturalist and although in frequent essays he reminds us of the insignificance and unimportance of man in the whole scheme of things , it 's plain that , from the beginning , and as I hope I shall be able to show you , right down to the end , he found something emotionally hard to bear , I was going to say , in fact , intolerable , in this situation . |
| 28 | In one-day internationals he is the only bowler to have taken over 200 wickets , and his astonishing 175 not out against Zimbabwe in the 1983 World Cup has been exceeded only twice — both times by Viv Richards — in limited-overs internationals . |
| 29 | In other words , what is really being " talked about " in existential propositions he might say , are not — not primarily , anyhow — any ontological objects and attributes of such objects , but knowledge , and the possibility of knowledge , of certain propositions . |
| 30 | In vigorous terms he stated the position , at pp. 723–725 : |