Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slung his cloak of feathers over the staff and Scathach helped him to sit down in the slight shelter that this garment offered . |
| 2 | As she put her coat on she could hear him rattling about in a conspicuous way with pans and dishes , and talking to Tam . |
| 3 | She gave Charles the address , and looked so happy and excited when she asked the Stage Door Keeper to get her the Wimbledon number , that he quite forgave her for keeping him hanging about in the draughty passage outside his box . |
| 4 | Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it . |
| 5 | Taylor has been to Rome to talk to Gascoigne , whose last serious outing saw him carried off in the 1991 FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest with knee ligament damage . |
| 6 | The loading had made him break out in a terrible sweat and perspiration ran down his forehead into his eyes . |
| 7 | Fancy him turning up in a snivelling little place like Bethlehem . |
| 8 | We 've got him banged up in a high-security cell . |
| 9 | ‘ Is there any chance of him coming out in the near future , do you think ? ’ |
| 10 | He 's howling and scr w wailing cos I would n't let him go back in the same chair ! |
| 11 | Len 's mop of unruly fair hair always made him stand out in a crowded goalmouth but , even over 30 years later , he continues to stand out in the memories of Palace fans who saw him play for our club . |
| 12 | She dreamed of him hurtling along in an open roadster , smiling at a blonde head and two scarlet-nailed hands spinning the wheel , reckless on the deep-banked lanes near the summer school . |
| 13 | At a lecture in Nairobi given by Dr Esmond Bradley Martin , the world 's foremost authority on the rhino-horn trade , she heard him spell out in the starkest of terms why the rhino was on the slide . |
| 14 | During a sojourn in Northumbria one of these ‘ academic high-flyers ’ remained implacably ‘ not one of us ’ , and I heard him summed up in the following terms : |
| 15 | A gunman fired more than 20 shots into the building , but as he made off in a stolen car , a soldier fired a single shot from an Army observation post on the top of a block of flats several hundred yards away . |
| 16 | He made off in a W-registered Ford Cortina estate , stolen in Middlesbrough on May 11 . |
| 17 | The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election . |
| 18 | He points out in the British Journal of Educational Psychology that the results of these schemes have been disappointing and it is doubtful whether they have any permanent effect on intelligence . |
| 19 | THIS is intense ! ’ mutters Emilio Estevez , as he flies about in a glowing car . |
| 20 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 21 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 22 | ‘ The relief ! ’ cries Howard , as he goes about in an old pair of jeans , mending the roof and painting the window-frames . |
| 23 | The blue was a flyer , wings trimmed to prevent him from going too high in the action ; he got up in a sudden whirr of fury , looking for a brain blow , but gaffing the dun bird in the breast . |
| 24 | He swam around in the cold plunge for five minutes to close his pores , then towelled himself vigorously before jumping on the scales in the rest room . |
| 25 | Again and again the nightmare rose into his mind like bile into the mouth ; he threshed about in a desperate attempt to shut it out , but again and again he suffered the humiliation , the panic , the pain . |
| 26 | He headed in in the 31st minute after Wright 's centre had taken a deflection , then scored from the penalty spot after being brought down by Bennett . |
| 27 | He had several phone calls from Japan to deal with , and a request from a Bombay-based Hindu businessman that he fly out in the next few weeks to — as Mr Kapoor put it — ‘ spring clean ’ his collection of modern primitives . |
| 28 | He knelt down in the constricted space . |
| 29 | Half way through his super-human effort his foot slipped and in mid-launch he came down in an uncoordinated heap just outside the throwing circle . |
| 30 | ‘ He was OSS , then in London at the time of Winter Garden , then he came back in the mid-Sixties . |