Example sentences of "he [verb] it in [art] " 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 | And said , so it 's completely anonymous and all that and he said oh I ca n't be bothered to send that in , so he chucked it in the bin and they phoned him up and said why have n't you sent your form in ? |
| 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 sold it in no time — at the price he originally wanted . |
| 5 | He might not volunteer information , but is he is asked , he supplies it in a flawlessly polite manner . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | He found it in a stoneflagged side passage , a door bearing a small brass plate : ‘ Garland ’ . |
| 9 | He found it in the fact that the State , ‘ united for once in spirit ’ and ‘ with the fervent consent of the people of every land subject to the rule of our King ’ had entered on an arduous conflict , not for territory or glory but ‘ for the sake of enforcing the plainest rules of international justice and the plainest dictates of common humanity ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Buck thinks he has it in the bag , but there 's a long way to go yet . ’ |
| 11 | Now , for the first time , my father saw the barbaric splendour of the Abyssinian Empire He described it in a letter to his mother : |
| 12 | We shall return to the second part of the old horseman 's description : here it is necessary to emphasize that he used it in an exceptional way . |
| 13 | He Pronounced it in the way of Upper Egypt , dropping the " L " |
| 14 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 16 | On neither occasion could he say why he had done what he did , nor had he done it in the company of other pupils he wanted to impress . |
| 17 | He played it in the car on the way from the meeting and was bitten . |
| 18 | Yeah , he played it in the Witches |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He injured it in the Normandy landings . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Dvorak 's ‘ American ’ was so called because he composed it in the United States in 1893 , the year when his ‘ New World ’ symphony was first performed , both great works deriving from the same inspiration . |
| 23 | He buried it in the back garden , near the fence , overlooking the park that overlooks the city of which his father was so proud . |
| 24 | He envisages it in a kind of ecstasy — a world made by man , to man 's scale , for man to live in . |
| 25 | He secreted it in a crate of thread destined for weaving sheds in Liverpool . |
| 26 | He threw it in the trolley and went off to look for things Elinor did n't like . |
| 27 | How could he see it in the dark ? |
| 28 | He paid it in the same spirit that he washed himself-obsessively . |
| 29 | He bowls more consistently , he gets it in the area that troubles top test class batsman which is off stump , a decent height and a decent pace , without really falling all over the shot , only come with experience . |
| 30 | He swung it in a glittering arc , and it sliced through the table as though it were butter , carving its way through the heavy wood and jarring his arm , striking sparks off the stone floor . |