Example sentences of "in [adj] he [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of this success he also travelled abroad on at least two occasions : in 1787 he visited Paris , where his youngest brother , the inventor and pamphleteer William Playfair [ q.v. ] , was then the agent of the Scioto Land Company of Ohio — and for whom he later made abortive designs for an ideal ‘ American City ’ — while in 1792–3 he was in Italy , where his itinerary included the Greek temples of Paestum . |
| 2 | In 1935 he was at Loe Agra , where there was more fierce fighting , and then on the Khajuri Plain and up the Khyber Pass . |
| 3 | In 1815 he visited Paris , in 1820 he made a six months ' visit to Italy , and in 1825 he was in Paris again , having been sent to supervise repairs at the British embassy . |
| 4 | In this he is at one with most Christian Democrats and most Social Democrats in Europe today . |
| 5 | In this he was to be sadly mistaken , and the collapse of his position in the face of what was initially little more than a putsch organized by the queen shows how shallowly based his authority was , resting on fear and coercion rather than genuine loyalty . |
| 6 | In this he was to be disappointed . |
| 7 | In 1804–5 he was in partnership with William Stoakes as general furnishers and marble workers and in 1809–10 with the architect J. M. Gandy [ q.v. ] as ‘ architects , modellers , sculptors , marble masons , cabinet-makers and upholsterers ’ . |
| 8 | In 1332 he shared Baliol 's triumph at the battle of Dupplin Moor and in 1333 he was in the victorious army which defeated the Scots at Halidon Hill and restored Baliol to his throne after a brief Scottish rebellion . |
| 9 | In 1807 he was in the expedition that failed to take Buenos Aires and subsequently went with his battalion to India . |
| 10 | In 1960 he was in trouble with the law again when a crowd of youths began taunting him as he washed a friend 's car . |
| 11 | In 1274 he is to be found acting as a baron of the Exchequer . |
| 12 | In 1858–9 he was in the service of the Admiralty , before returning to south Wales , where for ten years he was engineer-in-chief and general manager of the Sirhowy Tramroad , which he converted into a standard railway . |
| 13 | While still living with his family in London in 1871 he was amongst the first associate members of the newly formed Society of Telegraph Engineers ( later the Institution of Electrical Engineers ) . |
| 14 | In 1974 he was on board the Glomar Challenger , for Leg 37 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project . |
| 15 | In 1370 he was with Sir John Chandos [ q.v. ] when he fell at Lussac and subsequently with Sir Robert Knollys [ q.v. ] in Picardy . |
| 16 | In 1640 he was on familiar terms with John Pym [ q.v. ] , his colleague as treasurer of the Providence Island Company . |
| 17 | In 1559 he was in charge of the naval operations for the abortive invasion of Scotland under the command of Réné of Lorraine , the Marquis d'Elboeuf . |
| 18 | In 1613–14 he was in conflict with Archdeacon Charles Fotherby over an amalgam of personal and religious issues . |
| 19 | In 1834–6 he was in the West Indies trade , and in 1837 sailed from London for Hobart , commanding the Superb ( 345 tons ) . |