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Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [adv] in the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The light from the hall spilled across the multi-coloured counterpane , and he laid her gently in the middle .
2	He prodded me playfully in the chest .
3	He looks me straight in the eyes as he takes his hand from my glass .
4	In that instant , I brought up my branch , so that he caught it right in the face .
5	His mission had been planned two years ago when he worked well with stablemate Balthus , the 1987 Cambridgeshire winner , and Glover promises he has something else in the yard to continue the trend in two years .
6	The secret of public speaking , he told me early in the campaign , is to address your audience right between the eyes .
7	He brandishes it wildly in the air , telling everyone they are safe now .
8	He ate it alone in the police canteen .
9	‘ Your father thought he recognised someone here in the hotel . ’
10	‘ Psst — Jack , ’ I hissed as he joined me damply in the breeze-filled tent .
11	‘ I 'll see you at the office on Monday morning , ’ Damian told her as he walked her home in the hot , humid night to her own villa next door and cicadas buzzed metallically as they walked past the fountain .
12	He served me well in the attack on the T'ang 's Plantations . ’
13	He arranged them neatly in the executive case open by his side , then concealed the banknotes with several layers of insurance magazines and four paperbacks .
14	He watched her covertly in the mirror behind the bar .
15	‘ The defendant clearly did not see the bicycle because he hit it firmly in the rear , ’ Mr Reid said .
16	He saw himself more in the Arts and Crafts tradition of the designer who can turn his hand to anything .
17	In his mind 's eye he saw them together in the brass-ended bed , his lovely Sweetheart with her silky hair and creamy-white skin , and beside her the grinning Tom Fish with one more cruel weapon to use against a little boy .
18	Anyway , he saw him again in the office at Al-Liwa just before the item appeared .
19	And of course that was why Hardy had taken against him , why he had left him on the sidelines any time he picked a team for some action , why he had now given him a job that he knew anyone else in the unit would have balked at .
20	So many times he had padded across this bedroom to go to Abigail that he knew it perfectly in the dark , only requiring to hold his hands out before him and , like a blind man , feel the bevelled comer of the wardrobe , the lacquered wicker of a chair back , the top of the radiator , cold at this hour , the glass sphere of the door knob .
21	Why , once he looked me right in the face and sneered .
22	And then he looked me straight in the face , ‘ One day , soon , Nicky , God 's spirit is going to deal with you .
23	He looked her straight in the face .
24	He looked her straight in the eyes .
25	When the immediate formalities were over , he left Algeria for the last time , and flew back to Paris , where he shut himself away in the house at St-Cloud , seeing no one .
26	And the third servant says Well no if I if I go out and buy something something might go wrong and I 'll lose the talent , and so he hides it away in the drawer .
27	The resident male who was displaced then comes back and looks after all the eggs , including those of the pirate and the reason he does it presumably in the first place he ca n't distinguish which eggs he 's fertilized and those fertilized by the pirate and secondly , he knows he 's fertilized some of the eggs and therefore it pays him to stay and look after all of them .
28	He shot me again in the right-hand side of my body . ’
29	He sprinkled it freely in the gate opening and beyond in the passage , then turned to me .
30	But it is not only through his healings and exorcisms that Jesus shows himself as the bearer of the Spirit : he claims it explicitly in the controversy with the scribes about Beelzebub ( apparently another name for Satan , conceived of as ‘ lord of the house ’ ) .