Example sentences of "he [vb -s] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A huge bronze statue commemorating him stands in the Town House Square in front of a thirteenth-century residential tower , renovated and given a dome roof in the early nineteenth century . |
| 2 | The first reference to him appears in 1765 when he was employed by Thomas Jeffery , geographer to the king , to survey Bedfordshire with Thomas Donald . |
| 3 | On Father 's Day he 'll ask me and my brother to bring him cornflakes in bed and a cup of tea . |
| 4 | So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo . |
| 5 | He normally takes great care to keep us informed of the central part he plays in the worlds of affairs and ideas . |
| 6 | But now he 's retired I 've heard that , when he plays in the odd charity match , he has a go now . |
| 7 | If he plays in all five Pakistan Tests , he will be one short of 100 appearances for England , and that includes three years in the middle of his career when he was banned from selection for involvement in a rebel tour of South Africa . |
| 8 | At the end of the day , Neil has had to come to terms with the fact that he plays in a certain way … |
| 9 | He plays in a definite way , dropping off scrums into a defensive pocket . |
| 10 | ‘ He is nothing like the gigolos he plays in the movies . |
| 11 | JOHN BARNES continues his comeback from an Achilles injury today when he plays in a combined Liverpool-Everton side against a joint Manchester United-City team in Graeme Sharp 's testimonial at Goodison Park . |
| 12 | He plays in a special game for Eusebio tomorrow in Portugal and must wait until Sunday for his Premier League debut against neighbours City . |
| 13 | Gerry Harrison has been signed on loan from Bristol City and he plays in midfield … |
| 14 | ALAN LEONARD aims to add another string to his bow when he plays in the Irish National Pairs championship finals in Blackrock , County Dublin next weekend . |
| 15 | You 're telling me you 're playing la , he told me he plays in ladies teams , I bet you all had great fun , watching them women bending over table . |
| 16 | show exactly the worth he discerns in the Trojan conflict . |
| 17 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 18 | no time , he records in his bedroom , I swear to God , it sounds best blooming recording ! |
| 19 | For his latest he ropes in some 27 guest artists including John ‘ Drumbo ’ French ( formerly Captain Beefheart 's drummer ) , Bruce Anderson and Richard Thompson . |
| 20 | Every Friday he lunches in the Glasgow Art Club with about a dozen friends and only displays momentary irritation when he fails to hear an occasional bon mot . |
| 21 | ‘ The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord : And he delighteth in his way . ’ |
| 22 | He turns in the doorway . |
| 23 | Filled with remorse , Dillon decides it 's time to resign his post and he turns in his badge to a new marshal , Clint Tucker . |
| 24 | The magnitude of Crawford 's performance was summed up by Sheridan Morley in The Tatler : ‘ In the end it is Mr Crawford 's evening : he turns in the kind of all-singing all-dancing performance that legends are made of , and the kind that an English actor has n't achieved since Buchanan in the 30s . ’ |
| 25 | When man 's lifestyle is more natural , basic and strenuous , he glories in the ornate . |
| 26 | Brittain categorically denies that he is merely ‘ having a go ’ when he flies in the face of the form book . |
| 27 | The other emerges when he remarks in the opening lines ‘ the regular yet halting rhythm , the smooth uncertainty of movement which may either proceed to greater regularity or fall away into improvisation ’ . |
| 28 | Equally , when it came to promotion to captain in the Mediterranean fleet , interest was obviously a strong influence upon the admiral , for he remarks in July 1799 that ‘ Adam Drummond came to me yesterday . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | Occasionally , nowadays , Irene is around to psych him up before he goes in there . |