Example sentences of "he [verb] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I asked 'im what 'e done in the war an' 'e told me it was no concern o' mine . |
| 2 | It finished 'is boxin'. 'E was goin' ter fight fer a title before 'e went in the army . ’ |
| 3 | Having looked at the growing success of the Editing for Industry awards and noted the fact that Alan Peaford was due to step down after a three-year stint in the chair , I decided to ask him to continue in the post for my year of office . |
| 4 | He pulled the door to behind him — he was reasonably certain there was nothing for him to see in the engine-room anyway — and stooped to examine the three dead men . |
| 5 | Olga heard him singing in the bathroom and shouted that supper would be ready in a few minutes . |
| 6 | Following BILL HICKS ' recent ‘ it does n't matter who you vote for , the government always gets it ’ rant against the American presidential campaign in these pages , we invited him to sit in a room on election night with STEPHEN DALTON and explain why he 's mellowed to the idea of Clinton |
| 7 | Mcduff came with him to sit in the shelves and they took it in turns to keep watch . |
| 8 | Both victims were brought to him limp in the arms of their supporters and their condition appeared dire . |
| 9 | Make him disappear in a puff of smoke ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Unfortunately , it is difficult for him to paint in the house in Leeds because we do n't have the space and we do n't have the light . |
| 11 | There was a puff of white smoke from the highwayman 's gun , and the horse of the man riding towards him reared in the air . |
| 12 | Mr Woolmer said : ‘ I felt Donald was overused in the World Cup when there was no need for him to bowl in the games against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe . ’ |
| 13 | If his brother Ulf was involved , as stated by Saxo Grammaticus and possibly lost northern sources , he too must have made his peace with Cnut , who allegedly had him assassinated in a church at Roskilde . |
| 14 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
| 15 | Someone came back with him to plug in a telephone . |
| 16 | Athelstan was always surprised at-the effect he caused ; here he was in a place where man died for the price of a few coins , but at the sight of the lighted wax candle , the sound of the small tinkling bell and him swathed in a cope , the coarsest men and women stood aside as if they acknowledged the great mysteries he carried. , |
| 17 | She watched him sprawl in a cane chair on the terrace , light a cigar , and pick up a book , uncaring of the many and varied insects homing in on the light above him . |
| 18 | Julian left him lurking in the shelter of the cart-house while she kept watch from the wicket for the most favourable moment , and beckoned him through quickly when the alley was empty . |
| 19 | But the odds appear to be stacked against him appearing in the Battle of Britain Part II , at Elland Road . |
| 20 | When they reached the Watermen , Mary and Ruth would n't let Ernest into the kitchen , but made him wait in the bar . |
| 21 | She would let him know in a fortnight . |
| 22 | The next morning they found him perched in a tree . |
| 23 | Britain 's biggest motor racing crowd of the year will be there to see him driving in a touring car … what we all want to know is whether we 'll see him driving in grand prix again … |
| 24 | In Flight of Fancy ( pp 64 ) he grapples with the problems of building a flying machine while Informagic ( pp 72 ) finds him trapped in the workings of a giant computer . |
| 25 | A huge bronze statue commemorating him stands in the Town House Square in front of a thirteenth-century residential tower , renovated and given a dome roof in the early nineteenth century . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know no more , except that I helped him to hide in the hayloft . |
| 27 | ‘ They see him walking in the street late at night . |
| 28 | I had an actor once who was condemned to hang for stealing a sheep — or a lamb , I forget which — so I got permission to have him hanged in the middle of a play — had to change the plot a bit but I thought it would be effective , you know — and you would n't believe it , he just was n't convincing ! |
| 29 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |
| 30 | He receives for his employment a take home pay of seventy three pounds per week , he lives with his parents and pays a board of twenty pounds per week he 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty . |