Example sentences of "he [verb] in [pron] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He read in her face the surprise and shock that a suspicion confirmed can sometimes bring . |
| 2 | He found in its nature the means by which he could impart freshness , immediacy , spontaneity , imagination to his own vision as a writer . |
| 3 | He has in his grasp the ability to reduce anyone to tears , through a snappy headline or lurid story . |
| 4 | Detaching himself from this passionate domesticity , he composed in his mind the kind of picture Rembrandt would have made of it . |
| 5 | But Kane was right when he identified in his letter a broad-and-loose Melody Maker aesthetic that prefers transports to truths , rapture to appreciation , magic to meaning , the letting loose of ecstasy to the clench of commitment . |
| 6 | He turned in his chair a little . |
| 7 | He constructs in his mind a sense of the overarching power and obdurateness of the ‘ system ’ . |
| 8 | He heard in his mind the catchphrase of a long-forgotten Northern radio comedian : ‘ I wo n't take me coat off , I 'm not stopping . ’ |
| 9 | He developed in his mind a set of procedural reforms for implementation after the election . |
| 10 | With uncustomary generosity , he included in his letterpress the Aboriginal name for a species , when he knew it , alongside its Latin and common names . |
| 11 | He included in his review a summary of eight characteristics which were consistently associated with successful school management and , in summing up , he pointed the way forward very clearly ( Clarkson 1988:273 ) : In schools , changes in legislation , organization and curriculum tend to attract considerable attention when they are first introduced . |
| 12 | Holly smiled to himself , chuckled softly , because he saw in his mind the face of the man who had brought the food to the hatch , and he thought of the retribution that would fall on the cretin 's shoulders . |
| 13 | Suddenly , he saw in his mind the utility room at Streatley and a scattered pile of boxes . |
| 14 | As he thought this he felt in his heart a voiceless nameless twinge , like a tiny spark , which he chose to identify as a signal , which very rarely came through , from his ancestors who had lived in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw . |
| 15 | He had in his pocket the key to an office where 5,000 match programmes , a historic souvenir eagerly sought , were stacked . |
| 16 | He said in his opinion the accident was caused through driver error . |
| 17 | He shifted in his seat a bit . |
| 18 | When he turned to face me he held in his hand a small spherical flask with a tube coming out of it at an angle . |