Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cameron maintained he acted in self-defence . |
| 2 | How long has he lived in Harlow ? |
| 3 | Has he come in front of you ? |
| 4 | Now , what has he got in mind ? |
| 5 | ‘ Now when I say he believed in England I do n't mean your thatched cottages and warm beer he did n't think the place was cute , not just his grandfather 's birthplace . |
| 6 | DR COX : Believed he acted in patient 's best interest |
| 7 | In a rape case , by contrast , a defendant who says he believed in consent when the girl had demonstrated her lack of it may very well not be believed . |
| 8 | And the Epilogue also points forward in its closing words to ‘ a new tale ’ , because ‘ our present one is ended ’ , and the narrator says he has in mind the slow regeneration of Raskolnikov , now in prison , through love and suffering . |
| 9 | After he had been accepted he trained in South Africa , and was then posted as a Flight Sergeant to Coastal Command . |
| 10 | I hope he rots in hell ’ |
| 11 | I hope he rots in hell . ’ |
| 12 | ANOTHER former employee of Mrs Winnie Mandela has said he lied in court to save her from implication in the murder of Stompie Moeketsi . |
| 13 | A BRITON being held in a Thai prison on possible drug smuggling charges has been found with heroin which police suspect he bought in prison . |
| 14 | The music teacher was carrying a mallet , claimed he acted in self defence . |
| 15 | He calls his wife the memsahib , so I guessed he served in India . |
| 16 | When Penry returned he smiled in approval to find her propped tidily against the pillows , covers drawn up to her chin . |
| 17 | Now leaning forward from out of the flowery deckchair : ‘ You know he died in debt . |
| 18 | And I know he worked in insurance , but there must be hundreds of insurance offices , and dozens of schools . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I want to see him take the ball from them , and the strikers , so that he can look to score goals like he did in Wednesday 's game with Turkey . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So we can only hope he gets in touch with me ? |
| 21 | Wing , 20 , a clerk , of Toppesfield Road , Wickford , had denied the allegation during the two day trial , saying he acted in self-defence . |
| 22 | He speaks a bit like Marie , so I suppose he lives in Scotland as well . |
| 23 | One failing he had in common with most labourers on the soil , much inaccuracy in bird nomenclature . |
| 24 | His choreography is firmly based on the authentic folk and flamenco dances he studied in Spain . |
| 25 | ‘ The greatest thing is telling him there is no point going to his mainstream school any longer if he is not going to get around and that he 'll have to go to a special school — at which point he explodes in terror and starts to make special efforts . |
| 26 | Preston thought he meant in London . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought he died in Chapter 8 ? ’ it might remark ; or ‘ You said the opposite in line 154 , ’ ‘ Is ‘ boxing ’ the day , the sport , or the packaging ? ’ and for real puzzles , ‘ Do you really mean that ? ’ or even ‘ Who he ? ’ or ‘ Shome mishtake shurely ? ’ |
| 28 | He thought he recognised in Creed qualities that he had himself : the ability to wait and to charge the act of waiting with the current of anticipation , to check and double-check , so that when the waiting was over everything would go like clockwork . |
| 29 | He thought he saw in Osman , beneath the intransigence and fanaticism , a certain uneasiness as to his own role in the affair . |
| 30 | I thought he retired in September |