Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 2 | When they entered his rooms , in answer to his hearty ‘ Come in ! ’ they found him sitting in the broken armchair , surrounded by books , his feet comfortably supported by a small wooden stool . |
| 3 | ‘ Has he acted in a strange manner recently ? ’ |
| 4 | He sometimes borders on triteness , but more often his straightforward approach allows him to speak in an authentic language which is easily understood and brilliantly evocative . |
| 5 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 6 | He was , he was , th they they took him , they chained him up , and they let him loose in the local cemetery , and left him there . |
| 7 | Then he says ‘ But he who tells of wars and heaven , under the sway of grown up Jupiter , of pious heroes and semi-divine leaders , who at one moment things of the holy assemblies of the gods on high and then of those deep kingdoms where a fierce dog barks , let him live in the frugal manner of Pythagoras and let herbs provide his harmless diet ’ . |
| 8 | Bondholder Erica Bachman told the court : ‘ Let him live in the same misery he brought upon his victims . ’ |
| 9 | They tried to imagine him acting in a comic manner the part of a man who had murdered three wives in a bath . |
| 10 | was of a description which it would be reasonable to expect him to obtain in the ordinary course of that business , and that he does that thing in good faith in the course of that business . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Just watch him go in the 200 metres . |
| 12 | In this regard it is interesting to hear him comment in The Favourite Game that ‘ deprivation is the mother of poetry . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I was at the first-night party of Come Blow Your Horn , ’ said Braden , ‘ and remember being completely fooled by his American accent in the play , so I was very surprised to hear him talking in an English accent afterwards . ’ |
| 14 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 15 | With Sissy she eventually discovers him lying in a disused mine shaft , and is with him when he dies . |
| 16 | In order to explain the different findings obtained according to whether the interviewer sat behind or in front of the subjects , Gur ( 1975 ) suggested that when the interviewer sits opposite the subject the latter 's anxiety level is increased which leads him to reply in a characteristic mode of thought . |
| 17 | The efforts of Rusty Conway , Chief Public Relations Officer at U.V.I. , to minimize the publicity caused by this event get him entangled in the competing empires of television and the press . |
| 18 | He took a shuttle to the asteroid belt , he was the highest ranker there they started the race , to the belt they drove at a deadly pace no-one knows what happened that star date but we always knew poor Wes would have to wait as they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak . |
| 19 | As they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm just asking you to think about it , ’ I heard him say in a calm voice . |
| 21 | ‘ Not last night ; I heard him come in a long time after I went to bed . |
| 22 | If he ca n't find her at home , tell him to look in the public library in the afternoon . |
| 23 | The company also insisted that he learnt a bit about the business he would soon be running , sending him to work in the busy Birmingham store for a month . |
| 24 | From the corner of my eye I see Walter return and realise with a start that the person accompanying him enswathed in a black bournous is Marianne . |
| 25 | Wardens find him sitting in a fake oak tree beside the replica of a female tawny owl . |
| 26 | She watched him undress in the easy manner of a long-standing husband before his wife . |
| 27 | Giannis Tzortsos is a Jehovah 's Witness , whose religious beliefs do not permit him to serve in the armed forces in any capacity . |
| 28 | The Irish selectors were keen to see him play in the inter-pro series in his bid for a place in the Irish side . |
| 29 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 30 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |