Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German escapement action Stein employed in all the pianos that he made after the piano in the vis-á-vis instrument can be seen as a transformation of the Cristofori-Silbermann piano action . |
| 2 | He plays with the quintet in a quite different sense from that in which they play at revolutionary politics ; though , bemused by him , set at odds , their purposes deflected and their fantasies fed and coaxed along , it does n't seem like playing to them . |
| 3 | When he succeeded to the throne in 1625 , Buckingham became his chief minister . |
| 4 | He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1770 , and was not yet twenty years old when he rescued Coleridge from probable death on the banks of the River Otter . |
| 5 | He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1822 and spent the remainder of his life as a leading public figure in Lincoln , of which he became high steward , and its county . |
| 6 | He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1871 , left India in 1878 , and settled in Oxford . |
| 7 | The Deputy Treasurer , who was in charge of the Court 's books and its daily business , was Nicholas 's elder brother John , whom he succeeded in the post in 1622 . |
| 8 | Then Sir Beaumains … rode all that ever he might ride through marshes and fields and great dales , that many times he plunged over the head in deep mires , for he knew not the way , but took the gainest way in that woodness … |
| 9 | He points to the increase in ‘ global cultural synchronization ’ through which information dependent countries are made more similar in commercially relevant areas to the information-independent countries from which most of the messages they receive about the world emanate . |
| 10 | Like other writers he points to the way in which political direction colours practice , and recognizes too that there may be conflicts within research itself , as there are amongst practitioners . |
| 11 | He points to the way in which the law has developed from a maze of individual sets of circumstances in which one or other of the prerogative writs would lie to a general principle under which courts will review decisions on the three grounds of illegality , irrationality and procedural impropriety : see per Lord Diplock in Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 , 410 . |
| 12 | He passed through the archway in the garden wall of Sea House , opening the white iron gate and leaving it open . |
| 13 | As he tramped up the hill in the pale sunshine , Jack 's thoughts turned back to Sir Arnold Hammond , Jonathan Ram , the meteorite and the Worm . |
| 14 | A non dancer by nature , he swirled around the stage in a glorious celebration of newly liberated frustration . |
| 15 | We suggested that goes to the window will be interpreted as meaning that ‘ he goes to the window in the living room ’ , whereas goes to a club will be interpreted as meaning ‘ goes to a club in the same town ’ , i.e. not ‘ in the living room ’ , nor even ‘ in the same house ’ . |
| 16 | An infra-red scanner winks its inflamed eye at him as he goes into the lounge in search of reading matter . |
| 17 | He is notorious in Islamabad because he argued for the cut-off in American aid to Pakistan , implemented last autumn . |
| 18 | He argued in the cabinet in July 1954 that the credibility of the Western deterrent would be enhanced by the multiplication of nuclear bases . |
| 19 | He loped up the street in zigzags , swooping and making aeroplane noises . |
| 20 | He qualified at the College in 1824 , being rather older than most of the students , and was appointed demonstrator in anatomy by Coleman . |
| 21 | Pete says he just wanted to get in the air so he read about the sport in magazines and then got in touch with the association … he says the sport is easy if you know what you are doing but you can pay dearly for your mistakes |
| 22 | He noted gloomily that when he dined with the King in May the Simpsons were both present , and that when another semi-political dinner party was given in July Mrs Simpson was announced in the Court Circular as being present alone without her husband . |
| 23 | ‘ Must be frustrated lust , ’ he quipped to the man in the next bed . |
| 24 | An instant later , the butt of Larsen 's gun slammed down on the back of the man 's head , and he crumpled to the floor in a senseless heap . |
| 25 | He moved to the table in the hall and put the cloth and tin of Brasso in the wicker basket alongside the dusters , the tin of polish and a bunch of keys . |
| 26 | Reds boss Frankie Parkes made no secret of the fact that he disagreed with the man in black . |
| 27 | Relieved perhaps that the surgeon 's prognosis is more encouraging than the cricketer 's first thought as he crashed to the ground in agony . |
| 28 | One night she brought him to see a horror film about the Living Dead , and he was so frightened by the zombies that he fled into the foyer in a panic . |
| 29 | Suppose that he starts at the pole in Fig. 3.8 with the local vector a shown there . |
| 30 | Michael looked up from where he knelt on the floor in front of the old armchair , his books spread out on the chair . |