Example sentences of "he [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man next to him winked in a fast act of conspiracy , a runner bean of a man who then extended his hand to Holly and their fists gripped in a distant greeting , but there were no words . |
| 2 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 3 | He was swearing steadily and obscenely as he did so , realising that the windscreen damage inflicted by the near miss would make it well-nigh impossible for him to engage in a high speed chase now . |
| 4 | They left him slumped in a drunken stupor against the church wall . |
| 5 | They tried to imagine him acting in a comic manner the part of a man who had murdered three wives in a bath . |
| 6 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 7 | With Sissy she eventually discovers him lying in a disused mine shaft , and is with him when he dies . |
| 8 | The piper was coming towards him wrapped in a black cloak , playing … what had he been playing ? |
| 9 | To establish immunity it would be necessary for the valuer to show a " formulated dispute " ( see 15.5 ) had been put to him to resolve in a judicial manner ; or , in other words , that he had been an arbitrator . |
| 10 | That is his strength — but also his weakness , since music tends to take second place and leave him locked in a radical cabaret slot from which he is unlikely to emerge . |
| 11 | It should have been returned to the author for him to re-write in a clear and concise manner . |
| 12 | Engine trouble on the first leg did n't manage to stop him coming in a creditable second . |
| 13 | From the corner of my eye I see Walter return and realise with a start that the person accompanying him enswathed in a black bournous is Marianne . |
| 14 | Wardens find him sitting in a fake oak tree beside the replica of a female tawny owl . |
| 15 | ‘ Not last night ; I heard him come in a long time after I went to bed . |
| 16 | There was a big picture of him dressed in a fancy cowboy suit and Stetson hat , riding the pony Buddie had bought from a circus because it would n't allow the big men to ride on its back . |
| 17 | A supervision order may include certain specific requirements which give a supervisor additional powers or require the child or person caring for him to act in a particular way . |
| 18 | He was tall and stolidly built , giving an impression of shambling clumsiness until one saw him working in a confined space when he would seem physically to contract and become compact , even graceful , moving about the body with the lightness and precision of a cat . |
| 19 | He took a shuttle to the asteroid belt , he was the highest ranker there they started the race , to the belt they drove at a deadly pace no-one knows what happened that star date but we always knew poor Wes would have to wait as they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak . |
| 20 | As they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm just asking you to think about it , ’ I heard him say in a calm voice . |
| 22 | In order to explain the different findings obtained according to whether the interviewer sat behind or in front of the subjects , Gur ( 1975 ) suggested that when the interviewer sits opposite the subject the latter 's anxiety level is increased which leads him to reply in a characteristic mode of thought . |
| 23 | The principle which would have to be established first of all is that each person in the world ( all those aged 21 or over , suggests Dr Grubb ) would have an equal share in man-made carbon dioxide emissions , regardless of whether he lived in a rich developed country or a poor one which produced hardly any carbon dioxide at all . |
| 24 | His name was Fred Paxford , and he lived in a small wooden bungalow on the other side of the brick kilns . |
| 25 | He lived in a small house there with his brothers and sisters , all Israeli citizens who spoke Hebrew and lived and worked in Israel . |
| 26 | He lived in a small cottage in the fields just off what is now Princess Way . |
| 27 | Grandfather 's wage was the magnificent sum of twelve shillings per week and of course he lived in a tied cottage . |
| 28 | He lived in a good loose-box , and was let out to water twice a day . |
| 29 | He lived in a pleasing little flat some distance away from the prison . |
| 30 | He lived in a quiet road off the south side of Clapham Common in a small Victorian semi , with tiny patches of garden at front and back . |