Example sentences of "[adj] in [noun] [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winning his seat as Member for Lancaster , he promptly joined the Cameron Highlanders and was unemployed in Cairo when he met Stirling . |
| 2 | The son of a professor , Boomer became interested in golf when he watched the six-times Open Champion Harry Vardon , whose birthplace he shared , playing in Jersey during the First World War . |
| 3 | Rob has been interested in art since he was a boy in his native Porthmadog . |
| 4 | Er and then he got me he er he got me interested in politics and he got me going to this N C L C evening evening classes . |
| 5 | He was very interested in astronomy and he used to lecture on the stars and that sort of thing . |
| 6 | Harry looked as derelict in death as he must have done in life . |
| 7 | It was a shed hand actually , he did n't , was n't responsible for cash although he helped the cashier and er , I well remember this erm in those days the conductor used to either run into depot with the bus or he 'd get relief on the Cornhill , he walked down to the depot carrying his cash in his cash bag and then he 'd sit in the paying in room and he 'd laboriously cam carried out his cash , piling the pennies into stacks , the ha'pennies , the tokens , the sixpences , every denomination . |
| 8 | He was old , he told me , and he was feeling his age , and he had played the Lear for five months at the National in London and he was tired , and he wanted to patch things up with me because it would |
| 9 | ‘ Ye see , he 's been sick in bed and he should n't really be drinking . ’ |
| 10 | OLIVER Cromwell may be the local boy made good in Huntingdon but he is still unmentionable in Drogheda , as Lady Antonia Fraser recalled in a Lenten talk at Our Lady of Victories , west London . |
| 11 | Wrexham 's Chris Platt was well in contention until he had a triple bogey seven at the 17th where he put his tee shot into bushes and trouble . |
| 12 | So Shaun 's well in favour so he could look after her , I think she 'd stay with him . |
| 13 | What I would say is that Liam was inexperienced in management when he took over at Celtic Park . |
| 14 | Taylor , 22 , from Inverurie , said he first realised Murray was involved in drug-taking when he saw him stick a needle in his arm at the depot . |
| 15 | How does Freud get or to refer to Marie-Anne 's erm subject couple weeks , how could Freud think that libido was involved in groups when he says in the book that she 's gon na tell us about tha that society and civilization erm is in conflict with indiv wi with , with individual 's erm libidinal self-interest , th th their personal libidinal desires . |
| 16 | Ken Gillance , defending , said Summersgill became involved in dishonesty because he needed money to feed his drug habit . |
| 17 | Bicker seemed deep in thought and he splashed through puddles without seeing them . |
| 18 | Yanto was deep in thought as he walked over the canal bridge that evening . |
| 19 | He looked deep in thought as he approached but the thing which intrigued Annie most was the way his mouth moved . |
| 20 | I do n't find the whole situation as rich in humour as he does . |
| 21 | The hero of Waugh 's Sword of Honour trilogy ( 1952–61 ) , again , is virtuously gauche ; so is Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jim in 1954 , a comic hero usually as polite in aspiration as he is socially incompetent in practice ; and so , it must be imagined , was the young Betjeman who , as he revealed in ‘ A Subaltern 's Love-song in New Bats in Old Belfries ( 1945 ) , adored girls too strong for their fainting admirers , whether at love or tennis : |
| 22 | He is notorious in Islamabad because he argued for the cut-off in American aid to Pakistan , implemented last autumn . |
| 23 | ‘ One day we were short in defence and he offered to play centre-half . |
| 24 | However , his appearance had been that of an eighteen-year-old , which makes nonsense for a second time of the press claims that Lord Haw-Haw was as puny in appearance as he had been in his human sympathies . |
| 25 | Henry was busy in England so he at once ordered his eldest son to take an army from Normandy and Anjou and occupy the lordship with all speed . |
| 26 | Safety is also uppermost in mind as he works as a lifeguard . |
| 27 | And it is convenient in practice that he should be a member , since this obviates the frequent summoning of the Law Officers for advice on points of Law . |
| 28 | Gusfield does not suggest , however , that all moral reform movements are identical in approach and he distinguishes between two basic types . |
| 29 | Robert Dexter 's eyes were shrewd in understanding as he returned her look , but it seemed as if he too realised the wisdom of not putting thoughts into words . |
| 30 | Her eyes flew wide open in surprise as he lifted her easily into his arms . |