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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Then he resumed in the same imperious tone . |
| 11 | So there he stood in the Dirty Duck , opposite Shakespeare 's Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon , 1951 , Prince of the heap . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |