Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee decided not to summon him , according to Chaplin , when they heard he planned to appear in the costume , boots and battered bowler of the Chaplin tramp . |
| 2 | In fact , de Valera and the civil servants he appointed to assist in the work , consulted Irish theologians on matters of society and church — state relations ( Longford and O'Neill 1970 : 295–6 ; Whyte 1980 : 379 ; Keogh 1987 ; Faughnan 1988 ) . |
| 3 | In 1825 and 1827 Hill founded , successively , continuing local associations of the Church Missionary Society and of the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews , effectively advancing each as its active secretary until he ceased to reside in the university . |
| 4 | He held the office until his death although he ceased to officiate in the House of Lords at the dissolution of Parliament in March 1629 . |
| 5 | Nathan was a simpleton : fat-faced and cretinous , with a drooly mouth and a silly smile , and when he tried to join in the hymns he made a terrible braying noise because he was turning into a man much too early . |
| 6 | But it 's the nature of the offence as such that if a soldier is bullied , he 's unlikely if he wants to stay in the Army , to bring it to the attention of the authorities , because he know that afterwards he has then to live with the people who he 's complained about . |
| 7 | It could be a good indicator for the Deep South where Bush must make an impact if he wants to stay in the race . |
| 8 | If he wants to stay in the race he may have no alternative but to abandon his original proposal and announce a rival offer on improved terms . |
| 9 | Cathy was in the little office and he came to stand in the doorway . |
| 10 | Perhaps he was more specific , speaking of what he usually saw when he came to work in the morning — Eva in her blue silk pyjamas and red robe shouting and laughing and giving orders to me for breakfast , and reading aloud from the papers . |
| 11 | Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular lift of his mother 's eyebrows which he learnt to dislike in the nursery and let him think how he dislikes it . |
| 12 | In Scotland , after Dalmahoy , he intends to play in the Clydesdale Bank Northern Open at Nairn Dunbar in June and the Gore-Tex Challenge at Cawder in August . |
| 13 | He seems to have enjoyed the patronage of influential people , who probably subsidized the books he began to publish in the Armada year of 1588 . |
| 14 | Then he began to tumble in the air and reality took over . |
| 15 | His logical mind lent itself superbly to maths and he began to excel in the subject . |
| 16 | ‘ Then he started to dance in the car doing an impression of me — I think . ’ |
| 17 | Eventually , he decided to continue in the role of co-skipper with the American , Skip Novak . |
| 18 | he decided to stay in the room and watch , |
| 19 | In Cézanne 's case this was because at first he struggled to compose in the Renaissance manner , and did it badly . |
| 20 | passenger , the driver 's brother , knew vehicle was uninsured. he consented to ride in the vehicle when , with another , he and the driver set out on a night 's drinking . |
| 21 | He said he hopes to live in the building himself . |
| 22 | ‘ His bedroom is that room there ; he preferred to sleep in the back . |
| 23 | Was he trying to rub in the fact that he did n't think much of me ? |
| 24 | The spirit Jesus is the son of God The spirit descended on Jesus at his baptism , and two he continues to confirm in the hearts of the believer the apostolic testimony that Jesus 's baptism and death , verifies that he is the Christ , the son of God . |
| 25 | In 1896 the ‘ Ratepayers and Inhabitants in Parish Meeting assembled [ resolved to ] hereby accord the Rev R. Burdon their grateful thanks for the very great interest he continues to show in the Parish … and hereby express their ernest ( sic ) and unanimous wish that his health might very speedily be restored and his life be prolonged for many years . ’ |
| 26 | That 's punishment , yeah , they would either do that or there was one driver down there he broke a wheel , that were n't his fault , and he had to pay for it , he had to go in the office like I did once . |
| 27 | So he had to wait in the house and er now it 's bed time now . |
| 28 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |
| 29 | He had to work in the knowledge that he could be reported to the Inquisition at any time , when his writings would become the subject of serious scrutiny . |
| 30 | He had to acquiesce in the seizure of Church plate and in the appropriation of common lands by the nobility , who enclosed them and put them under pasture . |