Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son . |
| 2 | Racing is often cruelly unfair , however , and while Top Class looks marvellous each-way value , Brittain 's dreams of victory could be wrecked by Golden Pheasant , a horse he trained in the early part of the season . |
| 3 | THE FIRST American anthropologist to enter rural China since the communist revolution has been expelled from Stanford University after writing about the barbaric birth control methods he witnessed in the Pearl River delta of south-east China . |
| 4 | Henry was going to add a chapter towards the end of The Complete History of Wimbledon in which he planned to deal with the failure of nerve he sensed in the place . |
| 5 | It was an entry to international football as perfectly timed as any of the crisp , balanced tackles he made in the course of his remarkable playing career . |
| 6 | The crises he discerned in the mid-1960s are still powerfully visible in the early 1990s . |
| 7 | Certainly things went wrong when he was Chancellor , but none of it was his fault he explains in THE VIEW FROM NO. 11 ( Bantam Press , Pounds 20 ) . |
| 8 | Silver , a schoolmate of Hockney at Bradford grammar , sold the young artist 's paintings through the chain of clothes shops he established in the North after taking his A levels . |
| 9 | Every Friday he lunches in the Glasgow Art Club with about a dozen friends and only displays momentary irritation when he fails to hear an occasional bon mot . |
| 10 | He thought his best period was the pictures he did in the Thirties , when he worked in France ’ . |
| 11 | Clinton needed five stitches in an eye cut he suffered in the first round , when he also badly displaced the knuckles on his left hand . |
| 12 | If he is interested in looking close to home , he should note the fact that while unemployment in my constituency has , tragically , gone up by the figure he mentioned in the course of the past 12 months , it has gone up in his constituency by 110 per cent . |
| 13 | The roles he played in the glossy pages of The New Yorker , for instance , were almost parodies of gracious living and social superiority . |
| 14 | He kept himself very much to himself , studying the ancient books he kept in the box beside his bed , doing his exercises , or playing himself at wei chi — long games that could take a day , sometimes even a week to complete . |
| 15 | John Donne may have been a great frequenter of plays , but the catalogue of his books he produced in the early seventeenth century reveals no dramatist among the many contemporary English writers he assembled . |
| 16 | According to Ken he worked in the old Government Commission , which was tucked away in the back somewhere , until the present Government wound it up and the Cabinet Office took over its functions . |
| 17 | Henry died twelve days later , and much of Eliot 's time during the two months he stayed in the United States was spent in winding up his affairs . |
| 18 | Gilbert reacted to the shock of it ; reacted to the shuddering he felt in the floor , and to the fact that the others were moving away now , towards Duvall and the blocked office door . |
| 19 | No wonder he sits in the chair and does nothing . |
| 20 | A beautiful odalisque by Matisse , such as Torso with a Jug , typical of the work he did in the 1920s and 1930s , will bring £35,000 or more . |
| 21 | Of all the community services on offer , he had chosen the coastguards , which involved nights spent quietly in a hut on the cliff tops watching for shipping ; and the hardest part of all the trials he endured in the Navy was being marooned on a ship for months on end with no opportunity to be alone . |
| 22 | What we find in Guerrillas is a narrative of unfailing fascination which delivers to the senses of the reader a country very like the countries he knows in the real world : equally , his experience of that country is very like his experience of Naipaul 's India , in being rarely subdued by an awareness of the writer 's more deliberate meanings . |
| 23 | He claimed it came from his fully- equipped TV centre above the pub he runs in the centre of Liverpool |
| 24 | Twice Iorwerth 's warning signal had fetched them hastily to their pre-arranged places ; but on the first occasion Isambard had shunned the dripping copse and ridden away down the softer slopes eastward of Parfois , with his attendants strung out after him like beads on the string of darker green he left in the wet grass ; and on the second it had been a full-scale hunt with a dozen or more guests and very nearly fifty retainers , and Owen had held his hand , unwilling to venture against such odds . |
| 25 | It is the passage he reads in the synagogue of his home town at the outset of his work . |
| 26 | The Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt had little sympathy for the Arabs he painted in the mid-19th century : ‘ Speaking generally I regard these people as the most detestable in existence . ’ |
| 27 | Periodically he returned to his Australian roots , but for long periods he worked in the UK . |
| 28 | More importantly , from a very early age he assisted his father in his optical workshop , and also in the courses of lecture-demonstrations he gave in the recently established Liverpool Mechanics ' Institution . |
| 29 | Since then he has spent his time equally divided between Belfast and a home he has in the south of France . |
| 30 | He started by sketching numerous frescoes and statuettes he found in the Hermitage Museum , Leningrad . |