Example sentences of "[verb] in the [adj] [noun sg] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was about four feet away when his foot caught in the electric flex he was dragging and he stumbled forward off balance . |
| 2 | He is now hoping to raise enough money to return to Bosnia to continue his work , and while the thought he had to kill still haunts him he says in the same situation he would not fail to kill again . |
| 3 | Yet though she knew she 'd been a fool and totally lacking in self-control , still tangled in the sensual web he 'd spun so effortlessly , she could n't regret it . |
| 4 | There had been a moment in his career , as he declared in the interesting preface he wrote to Josef Pieper 's Leisure the Basis of Culture and as Brand Blanshard has retailed in the Eliot Anniversary Issue of The Southern Review ( 1985 ) , ( ‘ Eliot at Oxford ’ ) , when , after a good deal of philosophical study , lie had decided to renounce the subject as such . |
| 5 | He wanted to bask in the developing closeness he and Jordan were enjoying , surfing sensorial highs , and being utterly open , perhaps for the first time in his life . |
| 6 | But my boss is a resilient character and when we met in the late afternoon he was bursting with his old spirit . |
| 7 | Husameddin likewise largely ignores the difficulties posed to his argument by the actual names given in the chronological list he uses , namely " Shams al-Din sultan al- " ulema Fenari-oglu " in the entry corresponding to 833 and " sultan al- " ulema Muhammad Shah Pasha " in that corresponding to 839 . |
| 8 | Every time an angler casts and curses when he loses his line , I , too , now curse as I think of some wild creature getting enmeshed in the deadly snare he has inadvertently set . |
| 9 | He felt Bully Boy had set out too quickly , but when he asked Market Leader to quicken in the back straight he got no response . |
| 10 | He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs . |
| 11 | Later , in the 1860s , Persigny remarked to the Emperor that the charges on the civil list were enormous — to which Napoleon III replied that had so much money not been allotted in the first place he would have been unable to fulfil all the demands which were made upon him . |
| 12 | Everywhere he went in the tiny house he saw her : sitting at the table , sewing , on her knees , blackleading the grate , laughing at him as she handed him his cup of tea or coffee , and holding up the doll she had dressed for him to admire . |
| 13 | Using all the healing lore he had learned in the White Tower he managed to summon Tyrion 's spirit back from the brink of the abyss . |
| 14 | Another , their influential sweeper Franco Baresi , is to have a metal plate inserted in the left arm he broke in Sunday 's derby win over Internazionale . |
| 15 | He had been a founding member of the Socialist Youth Movement , and after fighting in the civil war he had been held in detention in ( French ) camps in Algeria , before moving to the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | Schmeicel — on a trip to nowhere when the cross came in — he was a little obstructed — but for a big guy playing in the english league he should really have no problems with that one . |
| 17 | A body which , cramped in the black livery he wore , became still thinner , still more angular . |
| 18 | Bondholder Erica Bachman told the court : ‘ Let him live in the same misery he brought upon his victims . ’ |
| 19 | As he stood in the drizzling rain he welcomed it : the contrast in temperature was huge compared with Helsinki . |
| 20 | Suddenly , a girl aged about 16 walked up from one of the scattered houses in the village and stood in the same spot he intended to use for his photography . |
| 21 | The minister himself recognizes this portrait but delights in the political clout he has as the treasury man on many such committees , able to range over the whole field of policy . |