Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Howard ca n't help laughing to himself as he goes down in the lift . |
| 7 | When he goes out in the evening he is invariably with his mates whose influence may encourage him to take risks . |
| 8 | So this is how it 's going to be , thinks Howard , as he rides down in the lift again . |
| 9 | He slouched back in the chair , his face drawn as if he realised the mortal danger they were now in . |
| 10 | When he got up in the morning , his ankles felt ricketty . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Mum said he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He gazed up in the air and appeared to be musing to the ceiling . |
| 17 | He swam around in the cold plunge for five minutes to close his pores , then towelled himself vigorously before jumping on the scales in the rest room . |
| 18 | He headed off in the direction of the kitchen , and she made a feeble effort to straighten her leg , wincing in pain . |
| 19 | He headed in in the 31st minute after Wright 's centre had taken a deflection , then scored from the penalty spot after being brought down by Bennett . |
| 20 | He 's not far , he lives round in the Bought Houses , that estate … you know , Spam Valley Dad calls it … it was really gorgeous , Mr Fleming 's house , well not particularly from the outside . |
| 21 | He had several phone calls from Japan to deal with , and a request from a Bombay-based Hindu businessman that he fly out in the next few weeks to — as Mr Kapoor put it — ‘ spring clean ’ his collection of modern primitives . |
| 22 | Tonight it 's the story of his uncle and as he stands around in the hall , he talks about his Uncle Rocco who was stationed in Ipswich . |
| 23 | He got to his feet in one sinuous movement , stretching hugely , his arms above his head , before he sank down in the chair opposite . |
| 24 | I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game . |
| 25 | Let the dog out Jean if he wants out in the back . |
| 26 | He knelt down in the constricted space . |
| 27 | Laban puts the wrong daughter of his in Jacob 's bed , and Jacob does not realize it till he wakes up in the morning ! |
| 28 | When he wakes up in the morning he mutters , ‘ Tell Potter , tell Potter . ’ |
| 29 | Having discovered where Gabriel slept , he poked about in the hollow of the pageant cart , gathering up the tributes and luxuries that had found their way down into the dark . |
| 30 | I had one night of that , and when he came round in the morning , I told him . |