Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like Rossmayne and I did n't want him mixed up in a scandal . |
| 2 | Erm Dr was the medical officer of health , part time , and Dr was a character , he always had a white carnation , he rode round in a carriage on occasions , and he er wrote copperplate . |
| 3 | He wandered around in a state of utter dejection , belonging nowhere . |
| 4 | When he came back in a temper sometimes , or been drinking , Cis told me they would put Rich on the kitchen table and tell him to dance . |
| 5 | another driver says he came off in a field saw stars for a few seconds but he 's alright … |
| 6 | He drove about in a horse and cart and one of his tricks was to whip the horse up into a canter and crouch down behind the seat so people would think it had bolted . |
| 7 | For the rest of his duty period he walked around in a daze . |
| 8 | He rummaged about in a chest of drawers , and then produced a box of sheets of paper with dried flowers that Leverrier had collected and mounted . |
| 9 | Emily ignored him and he slumped down in a chair , trying to catch her eye . |
| 10 | One case too many of a shopper suing after he tripped up in a supermarket is more likely to trigger reform than a hundred multimillion dollar claims against accountants . |
| 11 | In the 36-hole final yesterday , he went round in a five-under-par 67 to defeat Hajime Meshiai by a stroke . |
| 12 | ‘ So he went out in a hurry . |
| 13 | Beating a similarly ornamented one-sided drum with a fur-covered stick , the shaman chanted and danced with increasing frenzy until he fell down in a trance . |
| 14 | Then there was one from ‘ R. Ufricks District Postmaster ’ informing residents of his area that pillar boxes with two holes in them had been ‘ put to an improper purpose ’ , which he spelled out in a way unlikely to commend itself to the Royal Mail . |
| 15 | The mainspring of his actions as archbishop he spelled out in a letter to the king in 1281 : all Christian rulers derived their authority from , and were subordinate to , ecclesiastical law , to which kings , by virtue of their great dignity , were bound in a degree exceeding that of any other layman . |
| 16 | Unlike those others he grew up in a colony where higher education was still in its infancy . |
| 17 | He grew up in a world of feud and betrayal , the hedgerow ambush on the country road , the British officers or agents in their rooms , given two minutes to say their prayers and then ‘ plugged ’ through the sheets and blankets of the beds in which they lay . |
| 18 | And then when he took he wheeled about in a wheelchair he 'd say , I want to go to army Emma . |
| 19 | Then he ran out in a panic and said he was a doctor and thought I was dying . |
| 20 | Of a sudden he sat down in a chair and Joe , looking at him , had a strange thought , for his mind was saying that if men could cry , Martin would be crying now . |
| 21 | Long years later , he ended up in a workhouse and it was from that vantage point that he ‘ launched his attack upon the world of letters . ’ |
| 22 | But he ended up in a scuffle and the youth was wounded . |
| 23 | A course of antibiotics enabled him to continue and he ended up in a tie for second place alongside Jose Maria Olazabal . |
| 24 | He ended up in a thorn bush where he finally managed to break free from his billowing parachute . |
| 25 | During one of his first trips abroad , to Prague , he ended up in a hotel like this and ‘ thought desperately of my own town on the shores of the Mediterranean , of the summer evenings that I love so much , so gentle in the green light and full of young and beautiful women ’ . |
| 26 | The general theme was that Walter could muddle through with Mum and Dad , but because they died , he ended up in a horror show . |
| 27 | ‘ His underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place , ’ explains Charles Handy , who picked Gould out from a handful of students at the London Business School ‘ because he stood out in a group of people as by far the most interesting , and that was because he was determined to have control over his life ’ . |