Example sentences of "a [noun] in [noun] [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rune once took tea with a mandarin in Peking and he comments in his diary : |
| 2 | JOHN Z. DeLOREAN , facing drug charges in the US following the collapse of his Northern Ireland sports-car firm , this week asked for a reduction in bail because he is short of money . |
| 3 | The corpse has been in a freezer in Hawaii since he died there in exile in 1989 . |
| 4 | ‘ Michael was in a play in London and he came in and kept asking me to play Donovan 's Catch the Wind , ’ recalled Gabrielle . |
| 5 | Duduc had been given lands at Congresbury and Banwell in Somerset and a monasterium in Gloucester before he was promoted to Wells , and another royal priest , Stigand , received the new church at Assandun and became a major figure under Edward the Confessor , eventually ( and illegally ) holding the great sees of Winchester and Canterbury in plurality . |
| 6 | John McCarthy was working as a journalist in Beirut when he was seized on his way to the airport to leave . |
| 7 | Indeed in May nineteen ninety Mr gave up his appointment as a teacher in order that he could care for the plaintiff full time . |
| 8 | Like the Beatles , Keegan was a legend in Liverpool and he has given United a dream ticket to ride all the way back to the Premier League . |
| 9 | Balliol offered him a fellowship in philosophy but he declined . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , it is precisely at the point when the plaintiff can not succeed in a claim in negligence that he needs to have recourse to the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 11 | Lucker points out that his contract comes to a close in Chicago and he is not being paid for anything he is n't doing , and he is not doing anything he is n't paid for . |
| 12 | Peter Duncan has a background in acrobatics and he certainly needed it with his interpretation of the little tramp . |
| 13 | ‘ He already had a background in TV when he started in Butterflies , while for me it was my first acting job . |
| 14 | When I got out of prison again I went to a hostel in Manchester and he was coming up there all the time . |
| 15 | He still had I am a Fugitive in mind and he recalled how in that ‘ job ’ ( in itself a revealing word ) ‘ every man and woman within a hundred yards of camera range is acting his head off , figuring that he is a Clark Gable , or a Garbo ! ’ |
| 16 | At the outbreak of war Messiaen joined the army and it was whilst a prisoner in Silesia that he composed his Quatuor pour la fin du temps which combines the harmonic and rhythmic complexity with refinement of sound that characterizes his later works , notably the epic Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus for solo piano . |
| 17 | The court was told that Gilchrist was arrested at a house in Pershore after he himself had telephoned the police . |
| 18 | But we were in a dungeon in Lebanon and he was in a safe house in the Home Counties . |
| 19 | And often , says Penny Mansfield , it 's not so much that he falls in love with another woman but he 's at a stage in life where he wants some diversion . |
| 20 | ‘ His father had been a solicitor in Medewich before he died and he knew the Bishop , so he came here as an administrator . |