Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got it in nine seconds . |
| 2 | He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile . |
| 3 | What Pausanias implies is that he found nothing in this source about the Celtic art of divination which had been extolled by Posidonius and other authorities . |
| 4 | ‘ So what I 'm working up to telling you is that when he got silly he let anyone in that house . |
| 5 | He caught her in two strides and his expression was neither analytical nor taunting . |
| 6 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 7 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 8 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 9 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 10 | Does he recall that it is exactly a year since he told us in this House , ’ Our policies are working ’ ? |
| 11 | He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone . |
| 12 | Then he knew where she was — or would be , moments after he committed himself in one direction : behind him . |
| 13 | But if Josephus used Nicolas of Damascus , he reinterpreted him in Jewish terms . |
| 14 | It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households . |
| 15 | Lunch was provided in a cafeteria and tea in a common room — an environment which sounds uncomfortably similar to that of more youthful days , and in fact he signed himself in one letter as " Advanced Student " . |
| 16 | And he cut it in ten blocks . |
| 17 | He humiliated me in other ways too . |
| 18 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 19 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 20 | In Leeds meanwhile he interested himself in educational ventures and became widely known for public service . |
| 21 | This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’ |
| 22 | He was almost sure that it was all a revelation to her and he watched her in sad silence as she covered her face and shook with sobs . |
| 23 | Then he took me in both hands and pushed my legs into the top of the bone . |
| 24 | When he had received news that morning from Teheran via Geneva that the ship he had chartered had gone missing , he indulged himself in genuine anger . |
| 25 | Peter , unable to bear such a pedestrian first appointment ( he saw himself in those days as a fervent worker priest ) , chafed almost from their arrival . |
| 26 | he brought it in this morning |
| 27 | ‘ He kept everything in perfect condition . |
| 28 | He questioned her in more detail for several more minutes , asking about sleep , moods , energy levels and half a dozen other tiny things that revealed his deep concern for his sister . |
| 29 | First of all he persuaded her to work in Bonanza 's joint , and it was n't long before he persuaded her in other directions . |
| 30 | He put them in central midfield — and he would have been rewarded with a vital home win but for Gary Speed 's late equaliser . |