Example sentences of "he [verb] in [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every day of every week he becomes richer by more money than he made in his first ten Sixties films put together and then some . |
| 2 | He lived in his own mind , he really did . |
| 3 | Danjit 's hand unsealed the front of her suit in the shadow-hung warehouse in front of everybody and she could do nothing about it , but his lascivious toying with her breast and the perverted obscenities he whispered in his garlic-and-beer breath could n't make her feel terror now . |
| 4 | But he was also drawn to the Jews whom he met in their Polish villages , victims of persecution and war , ‘ old Jews with prophets ’ beards and passionate rags ' , to their ruined ghettoes and synagogues . |
| 5 | Where he becomes ridiculous is in his desperate ambition to be part of the working class , striking a rather pathetic figure as he sits in his ministerial office with his trade union banner behind his head . |
| 6 | It seems to him , as he sits in his little white room , on a plain elm chair , at a plain oak table , with a view of green leaves outside the plain square window , and a plain old-fashioned black portable typewriter waiting beneath his fingers , that the purpose of all this massive display of hardware is clear : it is to overawe the minds of men and to symbolize their subjugation . |
| 7 | Then , by birth and by upbringing , he offers in his own person a connection between the Czechoslovakia now beginning to resume its history after 20 years in the deep freeze and both the pre-war Republic and the experiment in state socialism that followed liberation from the Nazis . |
| 8 | ‘ He — Nails — he — he sleeps in her stable every night . ’ |
| 9 | These ethico-political concerns formed the basis of his early works on madness : as he announced in his first book , Mental Illness and Psychology ( 1954 ) : |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many low-income pensioners are expected to gain from the measures he announced in his uprating statement . |
| 11 | ‘ Are you saying , ’ he asked in his rough Scots burr , ‘ that you now consider the IRB to be no longer of any importance ? ’ |
| 12 | He fits in his taxing training and competing schedule with a demanding job as captain of the Life Guards . |
| 13 | Although he failed in his main aim of forcing the Count of Toulouse to submit he did succeed in capturing Cahors and the Quercy . |
| 14 | He has natural speech/language experience to link all the signals he receives in his aural memory . |
| 15 | By brush and pencil he conveyed in his innumerable studies of this quite ordinary girl , the fragility of an idealized beauty , and the paths of ill health , for in an enfeebled frame she seemed to carry the seeds of consumption . |
| 16 | So you John now Jonathan he 's only fifteen , I know he looks in his twenties , but he 's only fifteen and he 's done a lot of homework so it makes him late and it makes him uncomfortable and he 's fidgety because he knows he 's got to disturb us when he goes out , he does n't does n't enjoy disturbing us , so I have to make that clear to you . |
| 17 | In line with his unprescriptive manner of teaching about how to develop contemplative life which is governed by his awareness of the intensely individual nature of discretionary achievement , Hilton is deliberately leaving his terms open , or using those likely to be directly applicable to actives , so that the recipient should not be constrained by definitions as he develops in his contemplative life . |
| 18 | ‘ Take care ’ I said , impotently , making plans to try and grab Steve should he fall in my general direction . |
| 19 | A one-time Economic Adviser to HM Treasury turned university Professor of Personal Finance , K. Alec Chrystal , gave no discernible answer to the question he posed in his Social Affairs Unit report Consumer Debt : Whose Responsibility ? |
| 20 | Now by his Holy Spirit he lives in our innermost selves , so that we become transformed into his image and likeness . |
| 21 | Yet the whole image of Xanadu is the poet 's personal creation , as he connects the practical knowledge of nature that he holds in his conscious mind , with his less readily available powers of creativity which he stores in his subconscious mind . |
| 22 | Similarly some measure of Pakistan 's eventual triumph was due to Imran Khan 's unconventional tactics and the confidence which he demonstrated in his leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed by slotting him into his team 's battle plan at an early stage of proceedings . |
| 23 | ‘ I have explained both in previous chapters and during our programmes , ’ he writes in his best-selling book which accompanies the series , ‘ that from the yoga viewpoint , all life is sustained by a force which the Yogis have named prana . |
| 24 | Similarly , the sentence-grammarian can not remain immured from the discourse he encounters in his daily life . |
| 25 | From this the client gains assistance which he needs in his weak position . |
| 26 | Whether , and how far , he changed in his later years must be examined in the next chapter . |
| 27 | The church and state broadcasts to which he referred in his next letter were noteworthy as containing one of his own , of which I thought highly . |
| 28 | In 1914 , Mr J. F. Gairns of the Railway Magazine visited the Works which he described in its final form . |
| 29 | The sun exploded into whiteness and the muddy grass turned to sand so fine that he sank in it ankle-deep as he ran . |
| 30 | ‘ . Derrida says that these two interpretations are absolutely irreconcilable , even though , he adds in his gnomic fashion , ‘ we reconcile them in an obscure economy ’ . |