Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived only in the present , caring nothing for the past or the future . |
| 2 | If Mountbatten failed in one item on his agenda , however , he succeeded triumphantly in the other . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the injection did not work and despite much medication to calm his heart , he passed away in the early hours of the morning . |
| 4 | He skidded hard in the opposite direction anticipating attack , but none came . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ He fought strenuously in the battle , ’ the annals of Worcester recorded , ‘ smashing steel helmets and taking many of his adversaries prisoner . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Some guy took his er bonuses after two years recently and I think he got somewhere in the region of six thousand pound . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | He got there in the end . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Why did he disappear right in the middle of the fun ? ’ |
| 13 | He read extensively in the classics and became an accomplished linguist . |
| 14 | At All Souls he read widely in the Early Fathers . |
| 15 | He had not taken the cases : he read now in the paper that a bigger fish from Rome was representing the family 's appeal against the terms . |
| 16 | He decided that he was never likely to do even as well as they and that he had better look for another career , which eventually he found successfully in the world of travel . |
| 17 | When Coffin got back to his own flat , all he found there in the way of post was an enigmatic postcard from his sister Laetitia : she had sent him a view of Edinburgh from the air , with a message scribbled on the back : I am going to the law . |
| 18 | He lies there in the peeling pyramid of the attic bedroom , on his cot shaped like a gutter . |
| 19 | He helped too in the development of the cardiac defibrillator , without which cardiac surgery could not have progressed and which has saved countless lives . |
| 20 | He moved slightly in the bed , and felt the warm , naked body beside him and smiled , remembering the last few hours . |
| 21 | He spent much of his youth studying jiu jitsu , from which he drew heavily in the formulation of wado-ryu . |
| 22 | When botanising abroad Mark Catesby also appreciated the value of records made while on expeditions , and he drew much in the field for his Natural History of Carolina , Florida and the Bahama Islands ( 1730–47 ) . |
| 23 | And if he surfaced again in the public eye , maybe the DIA would lose interest and decide to retire him permanently . |
| 24 | He stands upright in the misery rain , slams the door hard and is gone in a second . |
| 25 | Then as he was passing a bit nearer and I came to him , he stopped again in the queue , I walked in and and I said , I knocked on his window and he put it down and I said , that was n't a very nice thing to do . |
| 26 | He rose upright in the stirrups , he scarce could reach her hand ; But she loosened her hair i " the casement ! |
| 27 | ‘ It 's what he wants most in the world . |
| 28 | He knelt there in the darkness , listening to the sounds of the subsiding passion in the room below , then swivelled silently and with even greater care than before , and feeling far more sober , moved back towards the thin , escaping light at the far end of the chill , cramped roof space . |
| 29 | Yet there is material in what he says elsewhere in the Investigations and in other of his later writings for a many-sided and , I think , useful development of the comparison . |
| 30 | He says dismissively in The Times : ‘ Tabloid newspapers are entertainment . ’ |