Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the injection did not work and despite much medication to calm his heart , he passed away in the early hours of the morning . |
| 2 | He skidded hard in the opposite direction anticipating attack , but none came . |
| 3 | Later , as he rode home in the cool night air , a vision of old Bert 's delighted face as he presented him with the larger fish invaded his mind 's eye , and filled him with contentment . |
| 4 | When David appeared to ignore the pointed question , he asked again in a lewd voice , ‘ Worn her out , have you ? |
| 5 | Pascoe will come into the first team reckoning this weekend if he impresses tonight in a reserve game . |
| 6 | At All Souls he read widely in the Early Fathers . |
| 7 | His speech lasted three and a half hours ; most of it he read quickly in an even tone . |
| 8 | Shifting most of the body weight to the right leg , he pivots clockwise in a 180-degree arc , taking care to keep a watchful eye on his opponent . |
| 9 | His later years were devoted largely to charitable work , to which he contributed much in an unostentatious manner . |
| 10 | It was essential that the candidate 's appearances were carefully staged so that he came across in a favourable light before the television cameras . |
| 11 | She was still standing there when he drove past in the rented car . |
| 12 | He stays somewhere in the middle portion of the gunsight , but the pipper refuses to stay on him . |
| 13 | He figured centrally in the Edwardian era 's deliberations on the ‘ boy labour ’ question . |
| 14 | A morning comes , though , after 21 days as a Trappist , on which , with a noisy family trailing him , he screams again in the leafy sanctuary of the treetops . |
| 15 | When he appears again in The Stormy Petrel , part of his duty is to encourage the prospective King Carol , a timid boy under Count Jasper 's Regency — a boy who , as Dick complains , knows ‘ a lot out of books ’ but nothing about ‘ real things ’ , which he defines as : |
| 16 | ‘ Breakfast is ready ! ’ he called upstairs in a normal voice . |
| 17 | My father often talks in his sleep and sometimes he speaks fluently in a foreign language . |
| 18 | He quickened his flight as he saw ahead in the far distance , perhaps twenty miles on , the blue rising of real hills — ground higher than any he had seen so far . |
| 19 | He reigned alone in the Frankish heartlands , and prevented filial or factional hostility from coalescing into any major revolt . |
| 20 | He did so in a new sequence of theoretical notebooks , B-E ( 1837–9 ) and M- N ( 1838–9 ) — M for ‘ metaphysics ’ , meaning mind , man , materialism , morals and so on . |
| 21 | He moved at once , for he would not lie here on the floor before this ancient evil creature and , although it was awkward and painful to stand up because of the ropes that bound his arms , he did so in a swift fluid movement and stood eyeing the Robemaker . |
| 22 | What 's more , though it seems not to be generally realized , Pound recognized what had happened and acknowledged it ; he did so in the public welcome he gave to Binyon 's translations of Dante , which employ a very archaic and convoluted diction indeed . |
| 23 | Henceforth he spoke always in a monotonous whisper … |
| 24 | He dressed carefully in the brown suit he had been married in and he bought the ticket with quiet authority . |
| 25 | He dressed casually in a red golfing sweater , pale blue trousers , and deceptively ordinary-looking hand-made shoes . |
| 26 | As he journeyed home in the early-morning gloom , he tried to fix it in his mind with words . |
| 27 | As each person dies , he does so in a little skirmish of the platoon that is parallel to , and reflects , one of the four major disastrous battles of the war — Dunkirk , Dieppe , Alamein and Arnhem — which is shown in tinted black-and-white footage , some of which we shot and some of it archive material . |
| 28 | She ruled their lives with a rod of iron , would not let TV be on after 10 p.m. , cancelled the daily papers , and insisted that her daughter continue to share her bedroom , while he slept alone in the spare room . |
| 29 | He slept alone in the big double bed , curled up in his stolen greatcoat beneath a single woollen blanket exactly like the one that was nailed across the window . |
| 30 | He said so in no uncertain terms . |