Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] in [art] [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 | He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He found it in a stoneflagged side passage , a door bearing a small brass plate : ‘ Garland ’ . |
| 8 | He helped her in a two-year battle against cancer and to come to terms with her double mastectomy . |
| 9 | But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then , before she realised what was happening , he fastened her in the double stirrups , binding her hands and feet . |
| 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 | One friend who was told of the contents of the letter reveals : ‘ He told her in no uncertain terms that she had to help maintain the dignity of the Crown and consider the repercussions of her actions to the Queen . |
| 19 | A close friend confirmed : ‘ He told her in no uncertain terms that she had to consider the repercussions of her actions to the Queen . |
| 20 | He told her in no uncertain terms that his father , the Duke of Edinburgh had agreed that if , after five years , his marriage was not working he could go back to his bachelor habits . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | But he told them in a straightforward way . |
| 23 | ‘ He told me in a general way that he was American . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview . |
| 25 | He dropped us in a short street which led to the entrance to the Taj . |
| 26 | ‘ You will not be coming back , ’ he assured her in the same arrogant tone . |
| 27 | He buried it in the back garden , near the fence , overlooking the park that overlooks the city of which his father was so proud . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |