Example sentences of "in [adj] he have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot had known Lawrence 's work for some time , but in 1931–2 he had grown particularly interested in that writer , whose ‘ travels to more primitive lands ’ and use of Mexican divinities in The Plumed Serpent were physical embodiment of Eliot 's anthropological reading and a likely reason for that title , After Strange Gods . |
| 2 | In 1934 he had been detailed to keep the British Union of Fascists under surveillance . |
| 3 | Although this was an extremely delicate operation for Nizan to perform , given that in 1934 he had carried out the rather complex act of ideological rehabilitation designed to demonstrate that Gide 's intellectual itinerary was such as to lead him inevitably to a commitment to communism , he none the less succeeded in combining professional respect for Gide 's qualities as a writer with penetrating criticism of what he considered to be Gide 's superficial analysis and hasty dismissal of the Soviet state . |
| 4 | In 1756 he had opened his poem On the Goodness of the Supreme Being with an invocation to Orpheus ( the Gentiles ' David ) which beseeches him for inspiration for his great religious theme : |
| 5 | But in private he had already told Lord Home that he should prepare to succeed him , and the ‘ customary processes ’ duly resulted in Home being chosen . |
| 6 | In 1838 he had made an important statement of evidence before the select committee on workmen 's combinations . |
| 7 | In 1838 he had written his only novel , Malvagna , or the Evil Eye , a romantic work set in Sicily , but it did not attract public attention . |
| 8 | And if he does and then I see him and that he is n't doing it any more , at least I 've got job satisfaction in that he has n't . |
| 9 | From nothing : in 1850 he 'd been just one of the hands at Wm Paul 's Tannery in Kirkstall Road . |
| 10 | He had been so moved by reading Political Justice that in 1794 he had decided to found a Godwinian state in a remote part of America . |
| 11 | In 1935 he had formed a group , the International African Friends of Ethiopia , to oppose the fascist aggression of Mussolini and with the help of his good friend , George Padmore , he later organised the International African Service Bureau ( I.A.S.B. ) , whose journal , ‘ International African Opinion ’ , he edited . |
| 12 | Crossing the Jotunheim in 1872 he had seen Störe Skagastölstind , the Matterhorn of the northern Alps , and resolved to make its first ascent . |
| 13 | The latest medical theories suggest that Mozart 's last illness had its roots in the various serious infections he had suffered as a child : on the early trip to Paris and London he had contracted rheumatic fever , tonsillitis. and typhoid fever ; in 1167 he had caught smallpox ; and in Italy he seems to have had bronchitis and yellow jaundice . |
| 14 | In 1162 he had succeeded his father as ruler of Aragon and Barcelona . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , in 1801 he had exhibited a portrait at the Royal Academy , and in the same year had established himself at 59 New Bond Street , at the corner of Brook Street , and published Rudiments of Landscape , a volume of uncoloured etchings after William 's drawings . |
| 16 | In 1767 he had married Eléonore Roget . |
| 17 | Salieri had never got on with Leopold II , and in 1790 he had been released from most of his court obligations , remaining as a kind of honorary kapellmeister . |
| 18 | In this he had the agreement of the ‘ new philosophers ’ of his century . |
| 19 | Part of his motive in undertaking to edit the Criterion had been to establish his own position within metropolitan culture and , since he had been a bank employee when he had begun the paper seventeen years before , in this he had triumphantly succeeded . |
| 20 | Over time his sermons moved away from emotional appeals to more reasoned ones ; in this he had much in common with the British ‘ gentleman evangelist ’ of his day , like Brownlow North [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | In 1972 he had suggested independence as Ulster 's best course and been severely criticized by Paisley and others . |
| 22 | In 1905 , at age 48 , he walked 200 yards , ran 200 yards , cycled 200 yards , rowed 200 yards and swam 200 yards , all in under a total of eight minutes , and in 1903 he had swum five miles in the Thames ( two of them against the tide ) . |
| 23 | By an extended tour in 1780–2 he had become known as a pianist in Paris , Strasburg , Munich , and Vienna , and in 1802 he was enthusiastically received in St Petersburg . |
| 24 | It was known to Charles too , for in 832 he had been installed as king there , briefly , at Limoges . |
| 25 | In 1985 he had set up a consultancy firm which in the past year had advised the government on privatization . |
| 26 | For the past seven years , Bates has been the one constant factor in the British Davis Cup team for since his debut against Portugal in 1985 he has never missed a match and has played singles on every occasion . |
| 27 | In 1718 he had helped to form the Society of Antiquaries in London and he had already begun his revolutionary survey work into the Stonehenge and Avebury stone circles . |
| 28 | Although a scholar , and married with two sons , in 1677 he had got a young girl with child , and then murdered the child ; for which he was condemned to death . |
| 29 | Though he only finished 12th last year in 2–8–02 he has since recorded two sub 1–51 marathons and is tipped for a top six place . |
| 30 | Watson was elected a Fellow and Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1967 , and by the time he retired in 1979 he had guided it through its greatest period of change since its creation in 1818 , with dramatic increases in membership . |