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Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] in a [adj] " in BNC.

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1	He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing .
2	so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it
3	And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim .
4	He found her in a small kitchen .
5	When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee .
6	But he found himself in a double bind ; the bankers said they would withdraw their support if he left and this would have killed the business instantly .
7	As the town hall clock struck twelve he found himself in an untidy cul-de-sac beneath the railway arches .
8	He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop .
9	He found it in a stoneflagged side passage , a door bearing a small brass plate : ‘ Garland ’ .
10	He helped her in a two-year battle against cancer and to come to terms with her double mastectomy .
11	She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her .
12	We shall return to the second part of the old horseman 's description : here it is necessary to emphasize that he used it in an exceptional way .
13	He fixed her in a maddened stare and she saw the blood running from his gashed hand .
14	I was the new boy at the office , he the old hand wondering what to make of me ; but if he was having second thoughts he dismissed them in a sudden grin .
15	‘ The only way you 're going to hurt me is by running away from me , ’ he told her in a rough voice .
16	‘ I would n't bother coming back , ’ he told her in a detached voice .
17	‘ It is a lucky man or woman , ’ he told her in a soft voice , ‘ who is blessed with the privilege of being able to pick and choose the challenges he or she must face in life .
18	‘ You may perhaps gain the kingdom of heaven by your prayers , ’ he told him in an unkind moment , ‘ but never the kingdom of Great Britain . ’
19	But he told them in a straightforward way .
20	‘ He told me in a general way that he was American .
21	‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview .
22	He dropped us in a short street which led to the entrance to the Taj .
23	He informed us in a haughty spirit that he would give my people thirty days to go back home , collect all their stock , and move to the reservation , saying , ‘ If you are not here in that time , I shall consider that you want to fight , and will send my soldiers to drive you on ’ .
24	Having counted them ( there were 95 ) and gone back to Washington , he handed them in a rolled-up newspaper to Secord in the lobby of the Sheraton Carlton hotel .
25	Burun was sitting on a chest which had been used to carry the food , and his second wife , Kiku , whom men called the Regal Lily , was standing behind him dressing his hair while he admired himself in a hand-held mirror .
26	He swung it in a glittering arc , and it sliced through the table as though it were butter , carving its way through the heavy wood and jarring his arm , striking sparks off the stone floor .
27	So he shaved himself in a great hurry .
28	The increasingly objectivity and precision of O'Keeffe 's imagery also made a strong impression on critic henry McBride , though he interpreted them in a surprising way .
29	Barth was deeply impressed by Anselm 's so-called ‘ Ontological Argument ’ for the existence of God — this argument will be looked at in more detail later — but he interpreted it in a particular way .
30	Darwin was himself a painter ( also the great grandson of Charles Darwin ) and he positioned himself in a red-damasked office in the Painting School , yet gave a fair crack of the whip to both art and design .