Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun] [subord] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coolness was his stock in trade as he was a scientist on our side . |
| 2 | He followed this with a traditional French bakery in Oxford while he set about converting a 15th century Cotswold manor house into Le Manoir , which opened in 1984 and has since become one of Britain 's most exclusive restaurants . |
| 3 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |
| 4 | 25–11 Dr St. Clair , who used to practice in Islay before he went to Blackpool , was the guest of J. C. Graham at Lagavulin . |
| 5 | The uncles and aunts presumably knew but Stephen himself had n't heard a word of him since he went away to college in London when he was eighteen . |
| 6 | Khrushchev survived to recount his disgust in part because he was a self-taught country boy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Could n't you see the dog did n't have friendship in mind when he hurled himself at you ? ’ |
| 9 | It seemed as if he received a shorter term in jail because he was a doctor . |
| 10 | John McCarthy was working as a journalist in Beirut when he was seized on his way to the airport to leave . |
| 11 | Though it is rare to find consensus among footballers and the media , few on either side had a good , or even printable , word for Toshack in Wales while he was marching Swansea to the top of the hill and down again . |
| 12 | He wrote a pathetic letter to his lord , describing his condition in prison where he lay bound with fetters of iron and beseeching aid from the Earl of March to secure his deliverance . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know how he is supposed to have made it from Carluke to the bar in Motherwell if he did kill the girl at the time it was said he did . |
| 14 | The Spirit of Romance is undertaken on the principle that Pound never ceased to hammer home , notably in How To Read and The ABC of Reading : the principle that no one can understand the history of poetry in English unless he or she takes note of poetry in , or responsibly translated out of , other languages than English . |
| 15 | She had been studying architecture in Paris when he first met her in 1958 . |
| 16 | A test position was certain for the First Test in Strasbourg until he suffered a knee injury and his goal was denied . |
| 17 | Just as he had last year in the pub in Kent when he 'd glassed the landlord — when the landlord had chatted to Jo while Jack was in the bog . |
| 18 | He tells me about how he had to leave a Walthamstow pub in embarrassment when he was asked to do some karaoke , and then asked for his autograph . |
| 19 | LIEUTENANT ALEX Watts clenches his fist in anger as he remembers discovering the charred remains of a family slaughtered by Croatian fighters in Bosnia . |
| 20 | He did not hold out much hope that Merymose would persuade Kenamun to engage him , but there was no harm in familiarising himself with the terrain in advance if he could . |
| 21 | ‘ It is perfectly common in ordinary speech to refer to the child in utero as he , she , him or her and I do not feel driven by the use of such ordinary parlance in this section ( of the act ) to the view which Lord Prosser accepted , that parliament envisaged a person sustaining injuries meaning a person enjoying legal personality . ’ |
| 22 | This was the young woman Vincent had called on at her home in Amsterdam when he was studying there . |
| 23 | A man has been shot dead at his home in Lancashire after he and his family were held hostage by armed raiders . |
| 24 | Northern Echo reporter Gavin Engelbrecht was filming his children at his home in Darlington when he heard a smash outside . |
| 25 | He had run away from his home in Chicago when he was fifteen and still bore the scars from the beating he had received at the hands of his father after his parents had discovered he was gay . |
| 26 | A rather sad story in a way , about a man who , for a very short time , achieved fame in Strasbourg because he he wrote the Marseillaise , which we all recognised , did n't we ? |
| 27 | They seem to have treated the lifters as brainlessly as they did a student with a night job in Bournemouth when he could n't give a sample despite an hour of trying on a roasting day in London . |
| 28 | Jimmy Nichol is the manager of Raith Rovers but that could have been his last match in charge as he is one of the favorites for the Northern Ireland match |
| 29 | Even earlier , in 1751 , he had had the same theme in mind when he began On the Immensity of the Supreme Being : |
| 30 | She assumed it was only a temporary lapse in character while he nursed his head but she still determined to keep the conversation going for as long as possible . |