Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strolling with his owner through a field littered with pebbles and stones , he suddenly spotted one in the crowd that really took his fancy . |
| 2 | To her astonishment , he suddenly prodded her in the ribs . |
| 3 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 4 | In fact the car turned out to be a souped-up grease-wagon piloted by an ageing rocker eager to prove he still had it in the nuts . |
| 5 | When Adam had a document for Miranda to sign that he thought she might argue about , he always included it in a sheaf of other papers he handed to her at the end of the day , when she was exhausted . |
| 6 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 7 | Such is Macari 's sense of insult to his personal integrity that he once he once defended himself in an ominously dramatic tone . |
| 8 | Occasionally he retaliated with his own efforts about the relative sweetness of something his guest had brought , but he usually said it in an unconvinced , muddled way . |
| 9 | In her eyes the marriage was good , life with Robert was still exciting , he was ambitious and popular at court , and he also kept her in a high degree of affluence . |
| 10 | In 1720 Boerhaave produced an impressive catalogue of plants in the Leyden Garden , Index alter Plantarum ( 2 vols ) , and under Protea in the Dictionary Miller refers to this work ( he also included it in the bibliography ) . |
| 11 | He also established himself in the Russian trade , which during the French wars offered exceptional opportunities for profit . |
| 12 | He also interested himself in the administration of this seat of learning , the colours of the students ' gowns — scarlet ; and the professors ' — black . |
| 13 | He thinks that he probably overdid it in the gym tonight . |
| 14 | Did you see that ? he nearly shot himself in the butt that time did n't he ? |
| 15 | He often visited her in the early months , talking as if the passive figure in the background was n't there . |
| 16 | Simultaneously he increasingly involved himself in the literary life of London , a change in the balance of his career which began when he made the acquaintance of the poet , Alfred ( later first Baron ) Tennyson [ q.v. ] , who in 1867 commissioned Knowles to design his house in Aldworth , Sussex . |
| 17 | In 1540 , however , although he strongly opposed them in the House of Lords , the Six Articles of Religion were passed by parliament , including those on transubstantiation and celibacy of the clergy . |
| 18 | When she went upstairs he dragged her to the ground and after sitting on her stomach , he twice stabbed her in the cheek with a knife . |
| 19 | He then enclosed it in a transparent box which he provided with a mechanism for straining the specimen in bending . |
| 20 | ‘ The Master took them quietly from his person and told him such things were not allowed to be introduced into the workhouse , he then placed himself in a fighting attitude and threatened to knock the Master 's teeth down his throat , thereby setting bad examples to others ’ |
| 21 | Her eyes are mud-coloured ; her eyes changed hue according to the contact lenses she wore ; he never looked her in the eye . |
| 22 | He certainly shot himself in the foot , pulling out of Glastonbury and playing Finsbury Park . |
| 23 | He certainly had it in the early days of Carry On Sergeant . |