Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He lived out in the country for a number of years , lived in poverty , erm , he thought about and he wrote about suicide . |
| 2 | He lived only in the present , caring nothing for the past or the future . |
| 3 | If Mountbatten failed in one item on his agenda , however , he succeeded triumphantly in the other . |
| 4 | He points out in the British Journal of Educational Psychology that the results of these schemes have been disappointing and it is doubtful whether they have any permanent effect on intelligence . |
| 5 | In the next step of the argument , he then said , well , religion is a transference , and therefore a form of infantilism , so now he seems to be criticizing religion , but if he 's criti criticizing religion by saying it 's an illusion , surely he 's jeopardizing civilization , because the danger , as he points out in the book , if you take religion away from people , you say , look , this is just an illusion , God does n't exist . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , the injection did not work and despite much medication to calm his heart , he passed away in the early hours of the morning . |
| 7 | He skidded hard in the opposite direction anticipating attack , but none came . |
| 8 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 9 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 10 | Howard ca n't help laughing to himself as he goes down in the lift . |
| 11 | When he goes out in the evening he is invariably with his mates whose influence may encourage him to take risks . |
| 12 | Later , as he rode home in the cool night air , a vision of old Bert 's delighted face as he presented him with the larger fish invaded his mind 's eye , and filled him with contentment . |
| 13 | ‘ He fought strenuously in the battle , ’ the annals of Worcester recorded , ‘ smashing steel helmets and taking many of his adversaries prisoner . ’ |
| 14 | So this is how it 's going to be , thinks Howard , as he rides down in the lift again . |
| 15 | In a recent paper , Halilsoy ( 1988 b ) has considered a technique which he applied initially in the context of colliding shock electromagnetic waves ( Halilsoy , 1988 a ) . |
| 16 | He slouched back in the chair , his face drawn as if he realised the mortal danger they were now in . |
| 17 | When he got up in the morning , his ankles felt ricketty . |
| 18 | He and Anne had a bathroom opening out of their bedroom but Adam , when he got up in the night , usually went to the other one that was on the far side of the landing . |
| 19 | ‘ Mum said he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet . |
| 20 | ‘ He slept like a log and when he got up in the morning and saw the car had gone he was very upset , ’ said a source . |
| 21 | Some guy took his er bonuses after two years recently and I think he got somewhere in the region of six thousand pound . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't think we had any chance of catching him but I just kept shoving and shouting and he got there in the end , ’ said Antoinette . |
| 23 | He got there in the end . |
| 24 | And it was the right subject — he got there in the end — because it enabled him to use everything that was most important in his own experience . |
| 25 | He said , ‘ That is a pity ’ , with his smiling , still mouth , and he got back in the car and drove away , and Elizabeth went back in the house , and all the day she cried , and I went away to the hills . |
| 26 | It was an illusion of tired eyes , but before he got back in the car he stood , his collar open , looking up at the sky where there was nothing to see but black , and let the water splash down on his open face , his wet shirt clinging to the skin of his chest and belly . |
| 27 | He gazed up in the air and appeared to be musing to the ceiling . |
| 28 | ‘ Why did he disappear right in the middle of the fun ? ’ |
| 29 | He read extensively in the classics and became an accomplished linguist . |
| 30 | At All Souls he read widely in the Early Fathers . |