Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Prost wants to be called champion for a fourth time he should come back in a sporting way . |
| 2 | His country still insist he must turn out in an African Nations Cup qualifier against South Africa rather than the televised curtain-raiser at the City ground . |
| 3 | In fact , I very much doubt that he 'll come back in a party mood . ’ |
| 4 | He 'll come back in a minute . |
| 5 | He 'd end up in a motorway bridge . |
| 6 | He told me he was n't planning to see Mum straightaway but that he 'd call round in a couple of days to comfort her . |
| 7 | He thought walking was old-fashioned , so he used to go round in a wheelchair . ’ |
| 8 | And worse , before an extraction he used to clank about in a tin box , producing a series of hideous forceps and examining them , whistling softly , till he found the right one . |
| 9 | Sometimes he would lay out in a row the seven or eight letters from the seven or eight men who he would most like to meet and talk to when he got to heaven . |
| 10 | They were spectacular efforts often launched some distance from the target , who would be dillying and dallying with his foot on the ball when , suddenly and without warning , he would end up in a twisted heap at the bottom of our wall amid a terrible noise of stud on bone . |
| 11 | At other times , he would sit back in a thoughtful , philosophical mood and ask Bob whether he felt one ought to have one 's name printed at the head of one 's private writing-paper . |
| 12 | He will stay on in a consultancy role for a few months until his successor settles into the job . |