Example sentences of "in [noun prp] he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Moscow he became a convert to Marxism , having seen Capitalism in action in Europe . |
| 2 | From the Café de Paris in Nice he wrote again : |
| 3 | In Sheffield he paddled whitewater with such notables as Colin Tee , Jon Gatfield and Dave Higson and also board surfed . |
| 4 | Funny that , when Jack was a student in Sheffield he worked in a fruit store and THEY sold cabbages . |
| 5 | In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years . |
| 6 | In Pacem in Terris he nudged the Council firmly in that direction . |
| 7 | But when he first arrived in Swindon he slept in a car park . |
| 8 | So important a man in Henley he had become that his obituary and funeral warranted 118 inches of space in the Standard . |
| 9 | In March he had been sought by police for crashing his '66 Corvette Sting-Ray into a car he was trying to pass and then driving away . |
| 10 | In March he had secured British assent for his plans . |
| 11 | In March he went to London for a party at the Mermaid Tavern . |
| 12 | In March he told Mauriac that there was bound to be a war between the Soviet Union and the " Anglo-Saxons " . |
| 13 | When the new Chief Constable took over in March he ordered an immediate review . |
| 14 | In March he provided Brittain with another sizeable slice of foreign currency by finishing second in Australia 's Tancred International . |
| 15 | According to Noel Stock 's Life , Pound first met Binyon in the second week of February 1909 , and early in March he found ‘ intensely interesting ’ a lecture by Binyon on European and Oriental art , for which the lecturer had sent him a ticket . |
| 16 | In March he explained that he had acted in a personal capacity only and that Chamberlain had suggested that their correspondence be published . |
| 17 | When he was in Norfolk he had to fill in an alien 's registration form . |
| 18 | In Padua he threw the ball at an opponent 's head , while in L'Aquila he was warned by the referee for his loud protestations . |
| 19 | ( In LA he had to get used to not being allowed to operate the camera himself . |
| 20 | He was Jason Donovan , the son of actor Terence Donovan and actress Sue McIntosh , and in Skyways he played Kylie 's brother . |
| 21 | In Leiden he met his lifelong friend and correspondent , the Dutch poet and diplomat , Constantine Huygens . |
| 22 | As a young doctor in Leiden he paid a seminal visit to the neuroanatomist WJH Nauta , at that time developing a revolutionary anatomical technique for investigating the nervous system by staining degenerating fibres cut off from their parent cell-bodies . |
| 23 | In Marseilles he visited a quayside booth advertising ‘ sheep-women ’ , who ran around while sailors tugged at their fleeces to see if they were real . |
| 24 | During this period , through his constant contacts with officials in Brussels he became involved in club programmes . |
| 25 | As a boy in Taibach he had gone to the Cach to see his screen heroes . |
| 26 | In any event , in mid-April he withdrew from the contest . |
| 27 | In Seattle he had studied philosophy , citing Nietzche and Camus as two of his more important influences , and he has a remarkable grasp of both British and American politics . |
| 28 | But now , at last , in Lucy he had a person ideally suited to his purposes … a person who was subject to a very powerful propensity . |
| 29 | He is able to run his part-time practice in Leyburn he worked in Darlington and Richmond before that around the racing calendar . |
| 30 | As to the strategy for dealing with the Iraqi army entrenched in Kuwait he said that " first we are going to cut it off , then we are going to kill it " . |