Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between Piccadilly and Putney , where he lived in the basement of a decaying Victorian house , he progressed through his usual states of somnolence , sick juddering wakefulness , and increasing worry about Val . |
| 2 | Cameron also designed ( 1782–5 ) the palace of Pavlovsk for the Grand Duke Paul , where he built in the grounds the first Greek Revival building in Russia , the Temple of Friendship . |
| 3 | It was in a cinema on 86th Street where he sat in the balcony , wearing an old sports jacket and open-necked shirt . |
| 4 | He took me often to organ recitals ( Goss Custard and Thalben Ball ) and to the Proms , where he sat in the balcony over the orchestra cupping his good ear in his hand . |
| 5 | In the summer of 1914 Braque was once more at Sorgues , while Picasso spent his time between Sorgues and Avignon , where he worked in the company of André Derain . |
| 6 | The Tories were in some disarray after the association of some of their leaders with Jacobite intrigue : Oxford was impeached and sent to the Tower in 1715 , and although eventually acquitted in 1717 , his political power was effectively destroyed ; Bolingbroke fled abroad , and although he returned in the 1720s to play a leading role in the propaganda campaign against Walpole , he was not allowed to resume his seat in the House of Lords . |
| 7 | Maurinus , cantor in the royal palace , had effectively challenged Eligius to do so , by searching himself , although he died in the attempt . |
| 8 | The outrage was enormous , he was stripped of the captaincy and , although he played in the Tests of that year , his career was over . |
| 9 | But although he smiled in the face of the direst provocation , underneath he was as determined as Ricky to go to ten . |
| 10 | Now extremely overweight and looking older than his sixty-five years , Brando spurns most film offers , although he appeared in The Freshman in 1989 and promptly denounced it to the world before it was even in the can . |
| 11 | One owner of former Chester Beatty material — although he has in the past denied this — now proving reluctant to return it , is David Nasser Khalili , the dealer/collector who is offering his collection on loan to the British nation ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 21 , October 1992. p.1 ) . |
| 12 | On this occasion Chatichai was forced to relent and Chalerm was demoted , although he remained in the government as Deputy Education Minister [ see p. 37857 ] . |
| 13 | He did n't belong in gardens , any more than he belonged in the company of two small children . |
| 14 | Outside , Gazzer looked even worse than he had in the tunnels : his face was haggard , haunted by his memories of last night , his fears for Bella , and his desperate need to make Marie believe him . |
| 15 | He was bearing the cold and damp better than he had in the previous year , but these winter months were a time when proper life had to give way to the struggle merely to exist . |
| 16 | The silence continued to fall Creggan watched Woil who looked smaller on the litter bin out in the great free world than he had in the cage . |
| 17 | Well , the city was n't a nice place to live because of all the silly laws the merchant had passed , and people started to leave it and go to other towns and other countries , and the merchant was spending so much time passing new laws and trying to make people obey the ones he 'd already passed that his own business started to fail , and eventually the city was almost deserted , and the merchant found that he owed people much more money than he had in the bank , and even though he sold his house and everything he owned he was still broke ; he was thrown out of his house and out of the city too , because he had become a beggar , and beggars were n't allowed in the city . |
| 18 | Seen in undress , in the vivid fabrics of winter , he was a smaller man than he seemed in the field , despite the broad shoulders and sinewy limbs . |
| 19 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 20 | Apart from his name nothing more is known about the publisher other than he lived in the village and the preservation society are hoping local people reading the re-print will be able to give more details . |
| 21 | It was clear that Vic felt at home here ; more at ease than he did in the shed . |
| 22 | In Moscow , Mr Yeltsin won a higher percentage of the votes cast than he did in the 1991 presidential election . |
| 23 | He began to feel more comfortable after 24 hours ' treatment with antibiotics and also admitted that he found it easier to pass urine in the privacy of the toilet than he did in the ward . |
| 24 | The big pitfall is the prospect of a currency loss if sterling declines still further , which can wipe out the benefit of interest rate savings and leave the borrower owing more debt than he borrowed in the first place . |
| 25 | James II succeeded to the throne but the favourite illegitimate son of Charles II , the Duke of Monmouth , did not approve so he landed in the West Country and encouraged a Protestant revolt , but much of the public supported the King and the uprising was suppressed . |
| 26 | We talked a bit ; it got late so he slept in the house . |
| 27 | Neither speaks French or German but one has a few words of English , so he sits in the front . |
| 28 | His clients are mostly dealers and decorators so he specialises in the unusual . |
| 29 | Erm so what I have to is an executor appointed provided he lived in the country for instance because his address was abroad at the time . |
| 30 | Maybe he would continue to ride pointlessly around the forest of Haling Heart until he died in the saddle , and maybe even then he would still ride pointlessly around . |