Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Implicit in Paul 's description of another student is the idea that , although the student did n't do what was required , he got round it in such a clever and ingenious way , that he still deserved to do well in it ; indeed , Paul said that ‘ there is less understanding in lab work than there is ingenuity ’ . |
| 2 | He gaped at me in silly bliss . |
| 3 | In verse 27 we read ‘ And beginning at Moses and all the prophets , he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself . ’ |
| 4 | He appealed to her in several languages , including German . |
| 5 | He turned to me in dumbfounded fury . |
| 6 | He was forced to sell his Thames-side mansion at Bray , Berkshire , for £1.5million — £700,000 less than he paid for it in 1988 . |
| 7 | He contracted with him in 1775 to come to the capital , and put him with M. Francoeur , to conduct [ battre la mesure ] . |
| 8 | As he bowed to me in that tight state , I almost believe I saw creases come into the white of his eyes . |
| 9 | His teaching after the resurrection , when " beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself " , was the climax of what he had been teaching them through the years of his ministry . |
| 10 | " Beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself . " |
| 11 | Miss Groundwater — he found that he thought of her in this way again , as a fillip to rage — was seated at her mirror , already in her nightgown , brushing out her hair . |
| 12 | The emotion he generated about him in those moments was a pit of black silence . |
| 13 | He advanced towards me in aggressive style . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't mean we should get to know each other — ’ She broke off , not sure what she did mean when he looked at her in such open invitation . |
| 15 | He looked at her in apparent perplexity . |
| 16 | A computer crystal had appeared in his hand , and he looked at it in mild bemusement , as if it were a fish , or a coloured party hat . |
| 17 | He stared at her in some perplexity . |
| 18 | He stared at me in great surprise . |
| 19 | He stared at it in frozen incomprehension . |
| 20 | He smiled at her in undisguised relief . |
| 21 | He smiled at her in wry relief . |
| 22 | He wept over her in Central Park ; he said to me , when I was nine , ‘ My heart is broken ’ . |
| 23 | For most of the day he sat beside her in stunned reflection . |