Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gunman fired more than 20 shots into the building , but as he made off in a stolen car , a soldier fired a single shot from an Army observation post on the top of a block of flats several hundred yards away . |
| 2 | He made off in a W-registered Ford Cortina estate , stolen in Middlesbrough on May 11 . |
| 3 | He lived out in the country for a number of years , lived in poverty , erm , he thought about and he wrote about suicide . |
| 4 | He lived only in the present , caring nothing for the past or the future . |
| 5 | If Mountbatten failed in one item on his agenda , however , he succeeded triumphantly in the other . |
| 6 | The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election . |
| 7 | This , he points out in a letter of December 1814 , was ‘ a passionate expression uttered incautiously ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | THIS is intense ! ’ mutters Emilio Estevez , as he flies about in a glowing car . |
| 11 | He was a man of simple tastes who had a down-to-earth view of life that he passed on in an almost unconscious way with an innate goodness that is found among the local pillars of the community who never stray far from their birthplace . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , the injection did not work and despite much medication to calm his heart , he passed away in the early hours of the morning . |
| 13 | He skidded hard in the opposite direction anticipating attack , but none came . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | ‘ The relief ! ’ cries Howard , as he goes about in an old pair of jeans , mending the roof and painting the window-frames . |
| 17 | Howard ca n't help laughing to himself as he goes down in the lift . |
| 18 | and er , he said if he 's not better , any better when he goes back in a fortnight he 's gon na send him to a chest specialist , but you 've been a lot better have n't you ? |
| 19 | When he goes out in the evening he is invariably with his mates whose influence may encourage him to take risks . |
| 20 | Likeable , cordial , he sits down in a chair facing her husband and herself and proceeds to converse with them . |
| 21 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 22 | Erm Dr was the medical officer of health , part time , and Dr was a character , he always had a white carnation , he rode round in a carriage on occasions , and he er wrote copperplate . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ He fought strenuously in the battle , ’ the annals of Worcester recorded , ‘ smashing steel helmets and taking many of his adversaries prisoner . ’ |
| 25 | So this is how it 's going to be , thinks Howard , as he rides down in the lift again . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | He slouched back in the chair , his face drawn as if he realised the mortal danger they were now in . |
| 28 | When David appeared to ignore the pointed question , he asked again in a lewd voice , ‘ Worn her out , have you ? |
| 29 | " Why , Dong , why ? " he asked again in a gentler tone . |
| 30 | The blue was a flyer , wings trimmed to prevent him from going too high in the action ; he got up in a sudden whirr of fury , looking for a brain blow , but gaffing the dun bird in the breast . |