Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Separating the tails of his jacket , he seated himself in the opposite chair , a frown creasing his forehead as he glanced about the room . |
| 2 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
| 3 | No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled . |
| 4 | My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj . |
| 5 | He helped everybody in the local community . |
| 6 | But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar . |
| 7 | Then , before she realised what was happening , he fastened her in the double stirrups , binding her hands and feet . |
| 8 | His Irish wife , Aylish O'Flaherty , ran off with their son , whom she feared would be raised as a heretic ; this was enough , by the statutes of the time , to have the marriage dissolved and the boy dispossessed ; but he distinguished himself in the Civil War , raising a troop of horse for the royalists , while the castle was occupied by Cromwellian troops . |
| 9 | ‘ You will not be coming back , ’ he assured her in the same arrogant tone . |
| 10 | He buried it in the back garden , near the fence , overlooking the park that overlooks the city of which his father was so proud . |
| 11 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |
| 12 | He paid it in the same spirit that he washed himself-obsessively . |
| 13 | He addressed her in the same way as he had her mistress , with the deference due to age . |
| 14 | After about five minutes he saw a strange sight of what he took to be three men approaching ; he challenged them in the usual way and shouted , ‘ Halt or I fire . ’ |
| 15 | He dumped himself in the battered armchair and watched her , chatting cosily the while . |
| 16 | Jacob saw something in Rachel that was very special , and he loved her in the true sense of the word ; the word ‘ love ’ in Hebrew , which is the original language of the Bible , comes from the root of the word meaning ‘ to give ’ , or ‘ to want to give ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , I hope I shall always be Kingy to you , Miss Sally-Anne , ’ making it clear that he included her in the charmed circle of his friends . |
| 18 | She was there at the departmental conference and he included her in the general nod and smile as he entered the executive producer 's office , but his eyes were guarded , and not just on her account . |
| 19 | At the inquest into his death and those he killed the sergeant said he saw nothing in the dead officer to make him question his state of mind . |
| 20 | For several minutes he saw nothing in the shimmering haze of the plain . |
| 21 | After a while he boiled something in the blackened tin suspended over the fire , stirring it with a white peeled twig , and then plunging the tin into the stream to cool it . |
| 22 | He turned the car , his hands moving swiftly and expertly as he manoeuvred it in the narrow lane . |
| 23 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |
| 24 | Having given up racing , he kept himself in the thick of things through his Goodyear racing-tyre distributorship and by opening a racing school at Riverside . |
| 25 | That 's really how he persuaded me in the first place to pretend … ’ |
| 26 | He put them in the warm water . |
| 27 | This is what trousers he put them in the proper basket instead of leaving them there . |
| 28 | If he boldly avowed his real purpose thus publicly , he put himself in the wrong , and his cause past any help from the law , which would tamper here in the march only on unassailable grounds . |
| 29 | He remembered her in the old days , singing at parties for hours and then turning up for rehearsal next day without any sign of strain or tiredness in her voice . |
| 30 | He bought it in the Swinging Sixties and had never worn it . |