Example sentences of "[vb pp] in his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen delighted in his preaching and made him Dean of Westminster . |
| 2 | Thus it was possible for a Frenchman to hide from a crime committed in his own country by adopting another nationality . |
| 3 | At other times Fagin would tell them all about robberies he had committed in his younger days , telling the stories so well and putting in so many funny details that Oliver could not stop laughing , even though he knew it was wrong . |
| 4 | The 1979 season was even worse : Niki 's four points were only double those he had earned in his first FI year seven seasons before . |
| 5 | Twice winner of the Paris event , seventh last year in London and then sprinting away in the final 200 metres to win the Berlin marathon ahead of Plaatjes , Brace has collected more money than he could have ever earned in his chosen profession of teaching . |
| 6 | Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues ( 1979 ) makes a virtue out of the condition of ‘ accelerated shatter ’ he had located in his earlier novels by attempting to link the diverse aspects of his text within a verbal flow , a ‘ stream of language ’ introduced by a twelve-page unpunctuated single sentence . |
| 7 | He is seen here after rescue and medical treatment , with a broken nose and bullet wound in his right hand . |
| 8 | According to Captain Trentham 's report , he was picked up with a single bullet wound in his right hand while lying in the mud only a few yards in front of his own trench . |
| 9 | He had been surprised at the speed of Grant 's reaction and had received a painful , though superficial flesh wound in his left thigh from the knife thrust . |
| 10 | Although the ball might have been slipping down the leg side , Taylor was adjudged lbw by umpire Tony Crafter , who was officiated in his 33rd Test , breaking Bob Crockett 's previous Australian record . |
| 11 | There was a flagon of beer forgotten in his vast fist . |
| 12 | A MAN paralysed by a rare disease told yesterday of his three years trapped in his frozen body . |
| 13 | A motorist was freed by fire fighters after being trapped in his wrecked car for an hour yesterday following a head-on crash on the A64 Scarborough to Malton road at Knapton . |
| 14 | If there is one danger facing Armani , it 's that of becoming trapped in his own stereotype ; when the day finally comes that he tires of the simple suit and sensational jacket , the world may just insist that he keeps on making them . |
| 15 | He can not obey God and subsequently finds himself trapped in his own cocoon . |
| 16 | Or some pathetic tailor like Taplow being trapped in his little cage and taken off to the slaughter house . |
| 17 | ‘ Funny ’ is about a comedian trapped in his theatrical role — funny , audacious , subversive . |
| 18 | painter friend of the Bobtail Widgers , forestalled in his own branch of art by Fithers . |
| 19 | He held her face cupped and cradled in his great hand , hard against his cheek , and the beat of his blood passed into her veins and drew her own blood into the same passionate measure . |
| 20 | He regarded perpetual change as the fundamental law governing all things — a view which is summarized in his famous aphorism , ‘ You can not step twice into the same river ’ . |
| 21 | To his first speech to Parliament , on 18 November 1760 , the king added in his own hand the robust declaration : ‘ Born and educated in this country , I glory in the name of Britain . ’ |
| 22 | Largely through Gould 's influence , it has recently become fashionable to say that Goldschmidt was underrated in his own lifetime , and that he really has much to teach us . |
| 23 | 4.16 Similarly , a disabled plaintiff often requires special living accommodation ( eg a bungalow equipped with doors suitable for the passage of a wheel-chair ) or requires special appliances to be installed in his existing accommodation . |
| 24 | He has been installed in his new role as writing development worker at Darlington Library and plans to inspire aspiring authors to follow his example . |
| 25 | He believes Docherty perceived Morgan as a threat to his power base and a player who had the raw potential to rise to the status that George Best had enjoyed in his early years at Old Trafford . |
| 26 | De Macon was at sea , it would take weeks to send a petition to Wolsey , and my master was immersed in his good works at Ipswich . |
| 27 | Or had he been immersed in his Black Arts , calling up a demon from hell in some lonely wood or deserted copse ? |
| 28 | ‘ Very nice , ’ he said again , and got into bed , still immersed in his own thoughts . |
| 29 | He was to be found that afternoon , as he was most afternoons , seated in a deckchair aft and immersed in his favourite form of relaxation , the reading of detective novels heavily laced with romance of the more dubious kind . |
| 30 | The power axe , clenched in his mailed fist , still hewed away at the same small area in front of him , but for the life of him he could n't push himself into the space it liquefied , nor could he shift the weapon to left or to right , so firmly was his arm held by the hydra . |