Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plays with the quintet in a quite different sense from that in which they play at revolutionary politics ; though , bemused by him , set at odds , their purposes deflected and their fantasies fed and coaxed along , it does n't seem like playing to them . |
| 2 | He points to the increase in ‘ global cultural synchronization ’ through which information dependent countries are made more similar in commercially relevant areas to the information-independent countries from which most of the messages they receive about the world emanate . |
| 3 | Like other writers he points to the way in which political direction colours practice , and recognizes too that there may be conflicts within research itself , as there are amongst practitioners . |
| 4 | He points to the way in which the law has developed from a maze of individual sets of circumstances in which one or other of the prerogative writs would lie to a general principle under which courts will review decisions on the three grounds of illegality , irrationality and procedural impropriety : see per Lord Diplock in Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 , 410 . |
| 5 | We suggested that goes to the window will be interpreted as meaning that ‘ he goes to the window in the living room ’ , whereas goes to a club will be interpreted as meaning ‘ goes to a club in the same town ’ , i.e. not ‘ in the living room ’ , nor even ‘ in the same house ’ . |
| 6 | An infra-red scanner winks its inflamed eye at him as he goes into the lounge in search of reading matter . |
| 7 | Suppose that he starts at the pole in Fig. 3.8 with the local vector a shown there . |
| 8 | He arrives at the Forum in the Tony and Olivier award-winning play M. |
| 9 | He darts around the country in the same blue pin-stripe suit , delivering variations of the same speech . |
| 10 | I … my … me … ’ he pleads from the manuscript in front of me . |
| 11 | He smiles at the reflection in the mirror and it too adopts the smile that says nothing . |
| 12 | He gets through the office in nothing flat , tearing past waiting rooms full of resentful people . |
| 13 | If a character simply jumps in , he lands on the floor in location 63 . |
| 14 | There was an interesting article in The Sunday Telegraph on 1 December by Mr. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard , in which he speaks about the devastation in Vukovar and what has been happening in Croatia . |
| 15 | Following a journey to Persia in 1889–90 of which he published an account in 1892 , he tells of the constitution in the 1840s of a Turco-Persian commission pursuant to the Second Treaty of Erzerum concluded at the prompting of Britain and Russia : |
| 16 | The Court of Appeal thought that he could be convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence , but if that form no longer exists , he can not be , and he falls within the gap in Caldwell . |
| 17 | Mothers may threaten with ‘ Wait until I tell your father ’ and then load the father with tales of woe as he walks through the door in the evening . |
| 18 | In them he isolates the main events of the Passion story for attention in particular ways in the sequence in which they appear in the Hours , except that he begins with the agony in the garden not included there . |
| 19 | So the word is that the best bet is on the appointment of another academic ( Sir Roger himself , though just due to become president of the Publishers Association , is expected to return to his chair of physics when he retires from the press in the summer ) . |
| 20 | These days , if you imagine a young man 's sexual exploration , he works from the outside in and encounters women 's underwear long before he comes anywhere near the female body itself . |
| 21 | The research is being conducted within the theoretical context of ‘ discourse models ’ — the mental representations which a listener constructs on the basis of what he knows about the world in general , what the speaker is actually saying and what he thinks the speaker is intending to say . |
| 22 | When he comes round the Mill in the morning . |
| 23 | When he comes round the Mill in the morning . |