Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [noun] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't actually say the words , but they were implicit in the final look he gave her before disappearing down the companionway . |
| 2 | In the final conversation he had with them , McQueen told Boswell and Johnson of his adventures in the 1745 Rebellion , when he had been part of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's invasion force of England and got as far as Derbyshire , and fought at Culloden . |
| 3 | But in the final hour he did deliver the goods , taking impromptu questions from the audience . |
| 4 | Only in the Ring of Fire , in the Eastern islands he loved , is his name writ large — on any globe worth its salt — in The Wallace Line . |
| 5 | Using profit maximising analyses and based on a model of a mainly cereal farm in the eastern counties he has calculated the likely impact of various assumed changes in the economics of farming . |
| 6 | Let me tell you more , dear boy , ’ said Toby in the sonorous manner he adopts when he is either about to state an immortal truth , or browbeat you , or both . |
| 7 | In it he said of Mrs Thatcher , in the jocular way he addresses us all : ‘ I wish that cow would resign . ’ |
| 8 | In the small hours he awoke , feeling ravenous ; he slipped quietly from the bed , — trying not to awaken her , and tiptoed from the room . |
| 9 | In the small kitchen he said in a low voice , ‘ Are you OK ? ’ |
| 10 | Auguste caught a brief glimpse of himself in the small mirror he had unobtrusively arranged in order that he might keep an eye on events taking place behind his back ; the surreptitious addition of Mrs Marshall 's abominable Coralline pepper , for example , to an imperfect sauce . |
| 11 | Berger stood stripped to the waist in front of the wash-basin in the small bedroom he had been allocated and examined his face in the mirror . |
| 12 | ‘ I saw him as fleeing the violent campus situation in America for the peaceful English countryside on a conscious level , while on an unconscious level he would begin to set up the conflict in the small town he went to . |
| 13 | He is going through a dry patch at the moment as he has won only on match in the five tournaments he has played so far this year but I am sure he will work his way back again , he has got it in him . |
| 14 | Here she was , possessed of more than she had ever dreamed of , this house , its comforts and warmth , those servants whose lives were spent in caring for hers , friends such as the Chamberlins who had taken her to their hearts , this first , unforgettable Christmas with all its bounty and then — Michael Swinton , in that bleak and dreary place , with only drunken old Meg and silent Punch , his loneliness accentuated by the life he had known these last few months in London and in the great houses he had stayed in . |
| 15 | In the Great Charter he undertook to put out of the forest ‘ at once ’ the districts which he himself had afforested , and the rivers he had placed ‘ in defence ’ . |
| 16 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 17 | Yet in The Four Temperaments he revealed very clearly and subtly how four very different types of person react to the mood suggested by Hindemith 's music , whilst using his particular style of classical dance ( see page 54 ) . |
| 18 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 19 | In the Minoan period he remained subordinate to his goddess , but at its end , as Zeus , he became much more important ; his original Minoan name , Velchanos , seems to have endured into the classical period as one of the titles attributed to Zeus on Crete . |
| 20 | Philip ran towards it and as he came round the slight bend in the wide path he saw the boy tugging at it . |
| 21 | As a poor boy in the Soviet Union he had , he pointed out , become chairman of the Supreme Council of Soviets , a job whose responsibilities compared even with those of running 20th Century Fox . |
| 22 | But even in the eastern region Mr Livingstone lost 10 constituencies more than last year , and in the southern region he lost 20 more . |
| 23 | There was something decidedly odd about the engineering master ; his manner was always friendly , but , in the six months he had been at the school , Robert had not exchanged more than a few words with the man . |
| 24 | But what Sheriff Irvine Smith has , with compelling cause shown , denied us in his Introduction he has amply redeemed in the justiciary cases he has placed before us and in his commentary thereon . |
| 25 | Then in the 1979 paper he found that subjects placed the time of occurrence of this sensation only a few milliseconds after the peripheral stimulus which evoked it . |
| 26 | As Bryan says , his main guitar is a Strat , although in the early days he used a Les Paul … |
| 27 | ‘ Before we eat , let us thank God for the food in front of us , ’ said Mr Wopsle , in the deep voice he used in church . |
| 28 | He opened the familiar door , giving the aluminium plate a rub with his sleeve , but in the tiny vestibule he paused . |
| 29 | Another delay as the work train was slowly shunted along , and as there were no seats on the customer side of the counter in the tiny room he went out into the periodicals area . |
| 30 | Everywhere he went in the tiny house he saw her : sitting at the table , sewing , on her knees , blackleading the grate , laughing at him as she handed him his cup of tea or coffee , and holding up the doll she had dressed for him to admire . |