Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he walked in the opposite direction , and he went to the park to get away from the people he might know . |
| 2 | As he did so he moved in the dreamy way of a man in a state of shock . |
| 3 | Soon he landed in the juvenile court and was placed into care |
| 4 | Anyway he lived in the old hut after the railway was taken up , we did n't see much of him in the winter but when the spring came round he would appear again . |
| 5 | In 1334 he was captured and ransomed by the Scots , gaining his freedom in time to fight in Edward III 's major Scottish campaign of 1335 ; but thereafter he shared in the general decline of English fortunes and interest in Scotland . |
| 6 | Yet minutes later he joined in the traditional chorus sweeping the allied line , the eastern response to the French ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ and far , far older . |
| 7 | His godly upbringing gave young Baxter a troubled conscience whenever he indulged in the usual boyish sins . |
| 8 | Lucas had been relieved of belt , tie , shoelaces , and everything in his pockets , and now he sat in the far corner on the mattress with his knees drawn up and his arms clasped around them , as if to present the smallest possible outer surface to the world . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Then he dragged in the two devil dogs and left them guarding the door so Mr Mounsa could n't leave , Liverpool Crown Court was told . |
| 11 | Then he resumed in the same imperious tone . |
| 12 | So there he stood in the Dirty Duck , opposite Shakespeare 's Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon , 1951 , Prince of the heap . |
| 13 | ‘ Ca n't think how he escaped in the first place , ’ complained the Home Secretary . |
| 14 | He saw how Wolfe 's leg muscles flexed impotently as he tried to scrabble to his feet ; how he squirmed in the two men 's grip , trying to get away . |
| 15 | She had expected him to lead her around the side of the house towards the gravelled front courtyard ; instead he headed in the opposite direction , down through the wide grass path into the garden itself . |
| 16 | He knew the power and the reality of the Holy Spirit in the church of his day , when he wrote in the 60s of the first century . |
| 17 | Apart from a short break for the war years , when he served in the Royal Navy , Staveley has sailed and campaigned throughout , presently racing in his Dragon . |
| 18 | The first casualty of the match was , for a change , a West Indian fast bowler , when Marshall fractured his left thumb trying to stop a shot from Broad ; yet even this worked against England , for it simply inspired him to his best Test figures when he bowled in the second innings . |
| 19 | That night , when he awoke in the full certainty that someone else was in the room , he reached for it , where it usually lay by his headrest ; but he had barely moved before he felt its point at his throat . |
| 20 | The best demonstration of the quality of Harry Collyer came in the 1909–10 season when he appeared in the English International Trial match . |
| 21 | He barred papal providees as readily as he warned a provincial council off royal interests ; yet he acquiesced in the papal choice of primates and presided over three remarkable decades of churchcrown cooperation in the arrest of excommunicates . |
| 22 | He said the house where he lived in the fashionable Perth suburb of Dalkeith , built for about £530,000 , was owned by a trust , and the beneficiaries were his children . |
| 23 | Huss is remembered by a street named after him ( the Hussenstrasse ) and by his effigy on the house where he lived in the same street . |
| 24 | He was engaged by ( Sir ) Herbert Beerbohm Tree [ q.v. ] to act in Australia , where he played in The Eternal City , 1903–5 , and returned to London with 100 parts ready for performance . |
| 25 | The Abbot of Battle , John Hammond , took an annual pension of £100 , worth possibly £10,000 in our currency , almost tax-free to boot , and settled in the town where he died in the later 1540s . |
| 26 | Loathing the expressionism and abstractions that surround him during his time at Newcastle , where he studied in the late Sixties , he believes ‘ you have to pick up the traces . |