Example sentences of "[adv prt] in his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came in in his old trousers and nightshirt . |
| 2 | Magureanu was not able to help Dobre settle down in his new calling as an apparatchik in the service of Ceauşescu , though he kept a ‘ paternal ’ eye on the erstwhile rebel over the next decade . |
| 3 | Mr Simons slumped down in his worn seat and looked up at me expectantly . |
| 4 | Back at the games table he sat down in his straight-backed chair and stared across at Ajayi , who put down the slate she was studying . |
| 5 | One balade , addressed to ‘ Maister Carpenter ’ , has come down in his own hand , with a marginal list showing that the poem , which is a begging letter , could be recycled , and addressed to a new recipient on each occasion . |
| 6 | Peter Gaskell shuffled through in his oversized wellingtons , a large empty canvas bag flapping against his knees . |
| 7 | Alfred was waving a white-stockinged leg in the air , Heinrich experimentally bending over in his black knee breeches ; James was pulling at his skimpy short jacket , puffing out his chest like Beerbohm Tree as d'Artagnan , Algernon was dancing a Highland fling showing off his black slipper shoes , and Alice and Emily were swishing merrily arm in arm through the kitchen in their huge , gathered black skirts covered with large , bibbed , lacy aprons . |
| 8 | Then living in isolation in Majorca , an ‘ internal exile ’ from the Franco regime , he got a friend to print a full-size copy of the original , which he worked over in his new style . |
| 9 | The one area of basic science that the president passed over in his new budget was biomedical research , for which he recommended a mere token increase of $71 million atop its current annual fund of approximately $4000 million . |
| 10 | As Inspector Blakelock turned it over in his large hands , she glimpsed through the plastic a pair of dark blue trousers with a greasy waistband , a wide-lapelled striped jacket , and a pair of black shoes with pointed toes and ornate buckles . |
| 11 | Alec Llewellyn nodded seriously at me as he walked off in his blue overalls , Alec , that snappy dresser . |
| 12 | If he started fiddling with it the way he fiddled with everything it could go off in his own face . |
| 13 | It was an appropriate way for the prolific England striker to sign off in his native East Midlands before he leaves to start a new life in Japanese football next season . |
| 14 | The badge of a civilized man , ’ said the Devil , and wandered off in his short breeches , his ribs showing even through the dark curly hair on his back . |
| 15 | The man went off in his brown dressing-gown . |
| 16 | When Goethe , in a scene of Faust I written in Rome , evokes the travail of modern man and shows it being assuaged by the contemplation of the " silver figures of the ancient world " ( der Vorwelt silberne Gestalten ) these shapes are the ideal models of Greek man which Winckelmann had set up in his historico-aesthetic studies ; and when , in his " classical " drama Iphigenia in Tauris , Goethe 's fervent heroine is eventually victorious and the play resolves itself into a serene and harmonious close , it is the spirit of Winckelmann that triumphs . |
| 17 | His feelings were summed up in his oft-quoted statement ‘ God does not play dice . ’ |
| 18 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 19 | A little boy had been sent off to a birthday party all dressed up in his best clothes and clutching a present for his school friend . |
| 20 | As he was all poshed up in his best uniform , ready to go off on a 48-hour pass , he was not best pleased at this turn of events . |
| 21 | Well , I mean actually , we would n't say that to him if he stuck something up in his front garden , that 's the reality ; people imagine that we have powers that we do n't have . |
| 22 | She did n't sew herself , so she had an acquaintance from a theatrical costumiers run them up in his spare time . |
| 23 | Huddle had told him about the rogue , turning up in his garish garments and standing on the church steps , offering to sell pardons to those who could afford them . |
| 24 | He scooped me up in his great arms , barking at me to make myself presentable and half-carried me back into the taproom . |
| 25 | He got up in his stately way and went over to his pantry . |
| 26 | She was pushing against his chest but Fred rose to his feet and , moving sideways , suddenly bent down and swept her up in his strong arms . |
| 27 | One hot afternoon I came down from my bedroom , after a brief but taxing siesta , to see the Agent pull up in his outlandish Packard . |
| 28 | He was Desmond , he was young and bright and flattered that a man had come from the Security Service to see him , and agreeably surprised that a Field Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had ended up in his stockinged feet in his front room . |
| 29 | And as top Australian journalist Richard Shears sums up in his stylish appraisal of Kylie the phenomenon : ‘ At the end of the year Britons will be able to make up their own minds when Delinquents is released . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , Einstein never accepted that the universe was governed by chance ; his feelings were summed up in his famous statement " God does not play dice . " |