Example sentences of "he [vb past] in the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rejoiced in the large numbers becoming Christians and carefully recorded them . |
| 2 | Given the various elements present in Eliot 's mind , it is hardly surprising that he found in the thundering drums of Stravinsky 's ballet , Le Sacre du printemps , the equivalent of the myth he sought . |
| 3 | The roles he played in the glossy pages of The New Yorker , for instance , were almost parodies of gracious living and social superiority . |
| 4 | He saw how Wolfe 's leg muscles flexed impotently as he tried to scrabble to his feet ; how he squirmed in the two men 's grip , trying to get away . |
| 5 | He woke in the small hours , feeling cold , and moved over to be closer to Carolyn 's warm body . |
| 6 | But he woke in the small hours and found her in his arms , just like that first time in the studio at Westfield Manor . |
| 7 | He woke in the early hours of this morning to find the 22 year old man engulfed in flames . |
| 8 | He delighted in the blue tits which hung upside down on the peanuts Jane put out , yet his job was killing chickens — just because there was no other work . |
| 9 | World record-holder Lewis — who lost his chance of an Olympic 100-metre hat-trick when he flopped in the American trials — will collide with Christie in Zurich on August 19 . |
| 10 | He was educated at the Edinburgh High School ( 1850–3 ) and as a schoolboy he joined in the geological rambles of his brother Archibald and John Young , the future professor of natural history at Glasgow University . |
| 11 | These he expressed in the Working Men 's Club and Institute Union , founded chiefly on his initiative on 14 June 1862 in London , becoming its first paid secretary in 1863 . |
| 12 | He began in the central Lowlands by surveying the lines for a railway from Edinburgh to Glasgow ( 1837 ) , and for the Scottish Central Railway ( 1844 ) . |
| 13 | Almost immediately after completing the poem , he began in the early months of 1941 to work on the fourth in the sequence ; it was entitled " Little Gidding " . |
| 14 | The passage in which they walked had changed its nature gradually , and Harry had not noticed it until he stumbled in the broken formations of the flooring where all had been smoothly levelled before . |
| 15 | He took in the familiar surroundings with a refreshed , amused eye . |
| 16 | He sent in the new pages , which , three months later , Sixsmith acknowledged and applauded in a hand quite incompatible with that of his earlier communications . |
| 17 | He died in the early hours from natural causes , believed to be a heart attack . |
| 18 | He died in the early hours of this morning . |
| 19 | He reports that he died in the early days of the reign of Bayezid II ( 886–918/1481–1512 ) , in the year 907/1501–2 according to one report , and concludes : " Because , according to the account in the he was an adornment of the chain of Seyhulislams , he has been recorded in this place . " |
| 20 | He had a number of scenes reshot because he did n't like the way he looked in the original scenes , and by the time he had finished hacking up the picture , it was a complete mess . |
| 21 | If so , he clearly failed in this , as he did in the abortive negotiations to stop the Scottish army from moving south in support of a civilian government — and ultimately of a free Parliament . |
| 22 | Thereafter we carried on with the hearing of the argument on whether Thorpe J. was or was not right to make the order which he did in the different circumstances which then existed and as to the more general issues raised by this appeal . |
| 23 | His quickest time for a 30-question puzzle was three-and-a-half minutes , which he did in the national championships though doing less well on the second puzzle meant he missed coming top . |
| 24 | He braked in the slow corners , where I could not overtake , then on the straight , he accelerated and drove away , ’ he said . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm very sorry to be the bearer of bad news , but there 's been an accident , ’ he said in the sepulchral tones of an undertaker . |
| 26 | When he wrote in the last fragments |
| 27 | In the summer dawn he ran in the hollow ways where his great grandfather had humped the sacks of corn . |
| 28 | He competed in the early rounds of the ASP contests , but ten to fifteen feet was a millpond for Bradshaw and he sank like a stone . |
| 29 | More important than either of these were Nnamdi Azikiwe 's West African Pilot , started in 1937 , and a series of other papers he launched in the succeeding years . |
| 30 | He stood in the damp boots that leaked the snow wet to his socks , and he hated the man who sat at the desk . |