Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] he [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 84 for 2 , Mr Beesley , ’ I would shout as I passed him snoozing in the sun beneath the gangling wisteria . |
| 2 | Erm I went in the mill to get some wood and noticed this young man and , I think I told you , I found him smoking in the , in the Porsche . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know no more , except that I helped him to hide in the hayloft . |
| 4 | ‘ I saw him play in the Schools Cup . ’ |
| 5 | His body clock free-ran so that on occasions he was the victim of a clash between an internal cause — which thought it was night and wanted him to sleep — and an external cause , society — which required him to work in the ( real ) daytime . |
| 6 | Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in . |
| 7 | She watched him undress in the easy manner of a long-standing husband before his wife . |
| 8 | On the morning she saw him standing in the body of the church , dark as a gypsy in his morning suit . |
| 9 | I said Wednesday and Thursday she said he goes in the afternoons does n't he . |
| 10 | So they got him settled in the bottom of the boat and just as they were putting this tarpaulin over him , and getting ready to set off , the one man He heard the one man saying to the other , he says , Right , forty miles a wee stroke of the oars . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Another would-be Tory rebel , Walter Sweeney , who has an ultra-slim majority of 19 — Britain 's smallest — accused Central Office of ‘ hitting below the belt ’ when they forced him to abstain in the vote . |
| 13 | now just whom did he know in the Irish organizations ? |
| 14 | She did not know of the vow he had made that if it ever did come he would make sure she was the first to go , even if it meant him staying in the Cages . |
| 15 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 16 | What did he sit in the cold then ? |
| 17 | Not for nought did he train in the jungles of Borneo . |