Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 2 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 3 | Does he recall that it is exactly a year since he told us in this House , ’ Our policies are working ’ ? |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | he brought it in this morning |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He put them in central midfield — and he would have been rewarded with a vital home win but for Gary Speed 's late equaliser . |
| 9 | Charlotte was counting the seconds until he should extricate himself , and he did it in less time than she had expected , and without even the pretence of sitting down with her . |
| 10 | Though he greeted her in good English , he looked curiously ill at ease , his brown eyes repeatedly sliding away from hers . |
| 11 | Soon her father returned and he continued it in greater detail . |