Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not want to bring her in to talk to him , nor did he want to interview her in the presence of her devoted but sharp-eyed husband . |
| 2 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 3 | He tried to look me in the eye , Say |
| 4 | Why would he need to do it in the dark ? |
| 5 | As an agriculturist he has to take him in the garden for practical training . |
| 6 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 7 | All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick . |
| 8 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |
| 9 | He turned to face her in the doorway . |
| 10 | James realised he was going to have to live with a monster when he began to immerse himself in the part of Sir Clifford . |
| 11 | For a fraction of a second , a strange , satanic glitter lit up Lucie 's eyes and his fist clenched and he began to punch it in the air . |
| 12 | He declined to add anything in the column for ‘ Other personal information ’ . |
| 13 | Because of the growing publicity surrounding his movements , he decided to lose himself in the crowd , going in through the turnstiles and watching the player from the terraces . |
| 14 | ‘ Nobody except me that is , ’ I added hastily in case he decided to throw me in the dungeons . |
| 15 | On hearing that Harry wished to go up to Melton Mowbray for the day , he offered to drive him in the Bentley . |
| 16 | And so Russell , looking round the world , inspired by that feeling and conscious of the way in which old human artefacts can hem in the expansion of human power of love and knowledge , he seeks to identify what in the world of his time are the main obstacles . |
| 17 | Of course , where Dorothy was concerned , that was his only strategy if he wanted to secure her in the end . |
| 18 | Certainly he refused to implicate himself in the development of a theory in which he had played so great a part . |
| 19 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |