Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though most cases of conversion at common law fall within the categories of taking or abusing possession , such acts on the part of the defendant are not a necessary element in liability provided he has dealt with the goods in a way inconsistent with the plaintiff 's rights , such as signing a delivery order for goods which are delivered under that order . |
| 2 | There were some plans in existence and he studied old maps by R. Casson and J. Berry , which had appeared last in 1757 before the copper plates for them had been taken over by Harrop . |
| 3 | Carrie sighed in resignation as he carried her out on to the small landing and leaned his shoulder against the bedroom door . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Regardless of whether the minor or anyone else with authority to do so consents to the treatment , that practitioner will be liable to the minor in negligence if he fails to advise with reasonable skill and care and to have due regard to the best interests of his patient . |
| 6 | Taking all these things together , I think they give ground for the suspicion expressed by Mr. Henderson and other Labour ministers that Mr. MacDonald had deliberately planned the scheme of a National government ; which would at the same time enable him to retain the position of Prime Minister and to associate with colleagues with whom he was more in sympathy than he had ever been with his Labour colleagues … |
| 7 | I would like to express my thanks and appreciation for all the cards , letters and offers of help sent to wish David well when he was ill and then in sympathy when he died . |
| 8 | ‘ One day we were short in defence and he offered to play centre-half . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nor did he find much useful support among artists , in part because he began his tenure with the blessing of the agency 's chief congressional foe , Senator Helms . |
| 11 | Buxton initiated his Civilization Society in part because he feared that to wait for antislavery principles to permeate foreign societies of slaveholders , which he believed to be BFASS policy , ‘ would cost us half a century , and that implies the sacrifice of twenty five millions of the human race ’ . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State , Cordell Hull , believed that the application of trusteeship offered the most satisfactory solution , in part because he held that the Soviet Union and Kuomintang China would not work together after the Pacific War and that an American role in trusteeship with the Soviet Union , China and Great Britain would be indispensable . |
| 13 | Even then you should have caught a glimpse of Nigel in orbit as he roared to victory in the British Grand Prix … |
| 14 | Endill watched in horror as he began hitting the handle , swinging against it with all his might . |
| 15 | Pascoe scratched his nose ruminatively then stopped in horror as he realized who he was imitating . |
| 16 | Staff and customers watched in horror as he poured the petrol over himself and set himself alight . |
| 17 | Shoppers in Manchester 's Moss Side watched in horror as he crashed into parked cars . |
| 18 | Willie watched him in horror as he picked up the wriggling worms and put them inside the tin . |
| 19 | The following morning , Lucien nearly retched in horror when he walked into the practise court and saw Amber Epipheny conversing with Resenence Jeopardy . |
| 20 | He reached in with both hands , only to shrink back in horror when he encountered something cold and clammy beneath his hand . |
| 21 | Ken Gillance , defending , said Summersgill became involved in dishonesty because he needed money to feed his drug habit . |
| 22 | From 1629 to 1640 , Charles I tried to rule without Parliament and his chief advisers were the Earl of Stafford and Archbishop Laud , who annoyed the Puritans in Parliament because he favoured outward ceremonial in religious observance . |
| 23 | People like Jack are supposed to represent us in Parliament and he comes out with nonsense like that . |
| 24 | But here 's Rozario Gemmell Black Pearce is up in support but he goes for the long ball in and Hill met it first . |
| 25 | Canadian hooker Karl Svoboda has flankers Gord Mackinnon and Al Charron in support as he cuts a swathe through the Eagles defence . |
| 26 | He must have been radical in religion and he favoured English support for the cause of the Netherlands , possibly being used by Sir Francis Walsingham [ q.v. ] and Robert Dudley , Earl of Leicester [ q.v. ] , to urge this policy on Burghley . |
| 27 | ‘ Lance-Corporal Trumper , ’ said Tommy in disbelief after he had been told the news . |
| 28 | She closed her eyes again , wondering how long , and then opened them wide , staring in disbelief as he withdrew from her , his act far from complete , got up and with the purest gesture of impatience she had ever seen , threw an Oriental robe of some kind in garish , tribal colours , around his shoulders . |
| 29 | Connors left the Brazilian shaking his head in disbelief as he hit winners at will and showed the kind of form that rocketed him to the semi-finals last year . |
| 30 | He was trying to pull her back down to the ground and laughing in disbelief as he did it . |