Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flaubert 's Dictionary offers a course in irony : from entry to entry , you can see him applying it in various thicknesses , like a cross-Channel painter darkening the sky with another wash . |
| 2 | He hugged himself in self-pity as we took in this alien race dressed with an abandonment and originality we 'd never imagined possible . |
| 3 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 4 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 5 | He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile . |
| 6 | As for the case made against the versions in the Classic Anthology — that by using rhyme they align themselves with the closed poetry of print and not with the open poetry of the speaking breath — the obvious retort is that , although in these poems Pound often rhymes , he writes them in free verse , and in a free verse where the syllables are weighed , and the varying pace controlled , as scrupulously as in anything else he has written . |
| 7 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 8 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 9 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 10 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 11 | ‘ Where goods are sold in market overt , according to the usage of the market , the buyer acquires a good title to the goods , provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of any defect or want of title on the part of the seller . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Where the seller of goods has a voidable title to them , but his title has not been avoided at the time of the sale , the buyer acquires a good title to the goods , provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of the seller 's defect of title . ’ |
| 13 | But if Josephus used Nicolas of Damascus , he reinterpreted him in Jewish terms . |
| 14 | It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households . |
| 15 | He addressed them in short , pithy sentences and promptly began his interrogation of each of them . |
| 16 | When a woman entered the room T J H Laurence , as he signed himself in typical British stiff-upper-lip fashion , would immediately stand up , his old-fashioned courtesy drawing amused glances from classmates . |
| 17 | He humiliated me in other ways too . |
| 18 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 19 | And then he pulled her in close again and ravaged her neck so that Robyn shrieked aloud and knew all the while that she was falling deeper and deeper … |
| 20 | He interested himself in fiscal , banking , and trade policy . |
| 21 | In Leeds meanwhile he interested himself in educational ventures and became widely known for public service . |
| 22 | This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’ |
| 23 | He was almost sure that it was all a revelation to her and he watched her in sad silence as she covered her face and shook with sobs . |
| 24 | When he had received news that morning from Teheran via Geneva that the ship he had chartered had gone missing , he indulged himself in genuine anger . |
| 25 | ‘ He kept everything in perfect condition . |
| 26 | First of all he persuaded her to work in Bonanza 's joint , and it was n't long before he persuaded her in other directions . |
| 27 | He put them in central midfield — and he would have been rewarded with a vital home win but for Gary Speed 's late equaliser . |
| 28 | As he put it in subsequent letters to Eisenhower , since an American nuclear attack would automatically place France in grave danger of a retaliatory Russian attack , France had an absolute right to participate in any decision about such an attack . |
| 29 | He sunk him in everlasting fires . |
| 30 | The figure is , precisely , that of the existence of a secret or an absent essence , and he traces it in various forms through a number of different tales . |