Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a chap er at our called Bill who claims that he got one one year before that but he ca n't prove it to us , er apparently he read in the Readers Digest of Neighbourhood Watch schemes in America and set one up himself in his own little area . |
| 2 | In the past I 'd just resented how long he spent in the office . |
| 3 | I thought he felt the same about me ; perhaps he did in the beginning . |
| 4 | When , a long time ago now , Stephen had tried to call him Dad or Father and drop the babyish name , he had shouted that Stephen was all he had in the world and could n't he have a little bit of kindness and call him by the one name that meant something ? |
| 5 | So he sang in the C of E Church , Church of England ? |
| 6 | So me mam says so he went in the house and says his , his wife 's name , he said , give me a pencil and paper . |
| 7 | If the borrower could no longer afford to keep up the payments , the longer he stayed in the home the more the interest bill mounted . |
| 8 | Later he served in the Crimea , officially as medical attendant to Lord Ward but enlisting as a volunteer surgeon with Florence Nightingale . |
| 9 | An hour or so later he settled in the jockeys changing room to watch the National , his father having travelled to Liverpool to saddle Foinavon and Buckingham having been booked to ride . |
| 10 | As it was a warm day with a bright sun overhead he walked in the shade wherever he could . |
| 11 | He noticed , too , that it was stone floored , and immediately he took in the feeling of clinical cleanliness . |
| 12 | Well he said in the council . |
| 13 | Wednesday , it must have Thursday , well he sat in the store as they called him . |
| 14 | Well he bought in the batteries for himself . |
| 15 | Eventually he found in the Scriptures , which he scanned daily , texts which satisfied him that he might be saved . |
| 16 | Instinctively he rolled in the saddle and felt the white-hot stab of pain as something sharp scored a line across his shoulders . |
| 17 | Everywhere he went in the valley now , John-Augustus sensed that he was being watched by Mary and he took that into account whatever he did . |
| 18 | Sometimes he looked in the mirror and pulled . |
| 19 | Then he fell in the mud … ) |
| 20 | Then he looked in the pram and saw Steffine and put the knife on her face . |
| 21 | Then he looked in the car , saw my father crumpled up and started to speak . |
| 22 | then he looked in the baby 's bouncy chair . |
| 23 | Then he spat in the road , and delivered himself of a surly condemnation . |
| 24 | and then he played in the afternoons ! |
| 25 | Patrick took his sister 's hand and led her further down the garden , out of sight of the house , and then he squatted in the snow and stared into her deep , dark eyes . |
| 26 | Then he sat in the grass , brought his wrists up under his knees , kicked off his shoes and worked his legs through his locked arms , one after the other . |
| 27 | Then he turned in the saddle and shouted briefly . |
| 28 | another one he had during his work and he says straight away look I was put to work splitting wood , do you see that in the , paragraph on the right hand side , the next day I was told to report to the dairy barns to help milk cows , then he worked in the garden , he also took care of the bees , harvested honey for the family , then in nineteen fifty three I was transferred to the cheese making farm , now here 's a spiritual brother thinking he 's going into the battle to do all sorts of spiritual things , and yet these were his assignments , there 's a lesson here for you and I . |
| 29 | Then he threw in the spice and seasoning : ‘ By stirring up people 's fears unnecessarily , jobs have been endangered by the Labour Opposition . ’ |
| 30 | There he stood in the college chapel , grizzled and weather-beaten by harsh Canadian winters . |