Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His vital interest was exploring the countryside with his school friend Arthur Hardy , as he records it in A Sportsman 's Tale : ‘ We had spent the best ten years of life together and after that saw one another about twice a year … |
| 2 | He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing . |
| 3 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 4 | He might not volunteer information , but is he is asked , he supplies it in a flawlessly polite manner . |
| 5 | He asked me in a very slow and serious voice , looking at me with solemn eyes . |
| 6 | And he asked us in a group to suggest some things that we might think of as being important . |
| 7 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |
| 8 | The scar goes right up to his elbow and he got it in a fight just like the scar he 's going to have round his throat . ’ |
| 9 | He found her in a small kitchen . |
| 10 | He found him in a comer of the hall , already half-drunk . |
| 11 | In fact , he found him in a state of positive animation , in conversation with Chatterton about the dangers of travelling by public transport . |
| 12 | He found him in a couple of minutes , before he had properly left the house . |
| 13 | He found them in a mess of vomit . |
| 14 | He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 15 | The tale of Simon the Athenian appears in Samuel Sharp 's History of Stamford of 1847 , where he says he found it in a ‘ quaint old black-letter record ’ . |
| 16 | He found it in a stoneflagged side passage , a door bearing a small brass plate : ‘ Garland ’ . |
| 17 | He helped her in a two-year battle against cancer and to come to terms with her double mastectomy . |
| 18 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
| 19 | Now , for the first time , my father saw the barbaric splendour of the Abyssinian Empire He described it in a letter to his mother : |
| 20 | He fixed her in a maddened stare and she saw the blood running from his gashed hand . |
| 21 | I was the new boy at the office , he the old hand wondering what to make of me ; but if he was having second thoughts he dismissed them in a sudden grin . |
| 22 | He wants me in a purple gown to match the set and shows me drawings of the dancers ' outfits . |
| 23 | ‘ The only way you 're going to hurt me is by running away from me , ’ he told her in a rough voice . |
| 24 | ‘ It is a lucky man or woman , ’ he told her in a soft voice , ‘ who is blessed with the privilege of being able to pick and choose the challenges he or she must face in life . |
| 25 | ‘ I would n't bother coming back , ’ he told her in a detached voice . |
| 26 | But he told them in a straightforward way . |
| 27 | ‘ He told me in a general way that he was American . |
| 28 | And , as he describes it in a very striking page , suddenly had what he calls a , a very acute sense of unendurable individual loneliness of man , the acute , an acute sense of the pathos of the situation of the human individual , somehow inherently lonely , shut up within himself , undefended , against the blows of fate . |
| 29 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 30 | He dropped us in a short street which led to the entrance to the Taj . |