Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 2 December 1793 , having adopted the alias of Silas Tomkyn Comberbache , he secretly enlisted in the 15th Light Dragoons . |
| 2 | They were ambling back , Joanna and her late hot lover , a tinker by the look of him , sodden with sex , Hope thought , she too carelessly satiated to fasten her dress properly , he altogether swaggering in the success of his rut . |
| 3 | The Office tells us that he eventually settled in the area known as the county of Richmond . |
| 4 | He eventually dies in the ambulance , on the way to a hospital that is n't closed . |
| 5 | He eventually surfaced in the hospital kitchens , where , through his flirtatious manner with a fat lard-like female cook , he had managed to scrounge a free meal . |
| 6 | He had said he had n't seen her in the shop , so he must have called in on occasions when Ann would be in the sweet shop and Arthur Peeble in the tobacconist 's or her father was there taking Peeble 's place ; he rarely served in the sweet shop . |
| 7 | Not that it was going to be easy to improve on the earlier filmed interview when , asked why he rarely practised in the nets , he replied : ‘ I do n't like confined spaces . ’ |
| 8 | In the Oxford of the second half of the nineteenth century , parochial , preoccupied with spiritual and philosophical problems , the Oxford of Benjamin Jowett , Walter Pater , and Mark Pattison [ qq.v. ] , his interests and experiences must have set him apart ; he rarely figures in the histories and biographies centred on the life of the university . |
| 9 | When at last he came to see her , he obviously believed in the story of the German and she was too proud to tell him the truth . |
| 10 | All , including women , were to have one vote , but the educated were to have more in proportion to the level of their education ; this , Mill believed , would provide a safeguard against the ignorance , selfishness and brutality which he so feared in the mass of the people . |
| 11 | For although I am sure he never had the chance to encounter a tiger beneath the dining table , when I think over all that I know or have heard concerning him , I can think of at least several instances of his displaying in abundance that very quality he so admired in the butler of his story . |
| 12 | I was in the toilet , giving him a shot , and I come back in and he just stuck in the syringe , there was nothing you could do . |
| 13 | For me , when man ( or woman ) talks of ‘ God ’ he just gets in the way . |
| 14 | He just stood in the sunshine , transfixed . |
| 15 | As it was , he just sat in the room below , hearing those sounds and trying to write . |
| 16 | and Clifford , no Clifford said , the lads to each other are we going out again dad you know cos oh Margaret was in , yes , and there was some other boys , the boy across the road was eating something and the boys said and Clifford said do you mind if I just sit in the chair and be quiet for just a few minutes and he just sat in the chair and had his heart attack |
| 17 | But while he has anguished over his role in life , to the point where it would surprise no one if he just threw in the towel tomorrow and went off in search of obscurity , Steffi appears to have suffered no such agonies and self-doubt . |
| 18 | Among those at the party was Muhammad Ali , who unlike Louis has , so far , not sunk to being doorman at Caesars Palace ; he just stands in the Mirage Hotel at the head of a never diminishing human snake , signing his autograph . |
| 19 | Among those at the party was Muhammad Ali , who unlike Louis has , so far , not sunk to being doorman at Caesars Palace ; he just stands in the Mirage Hotel at the head of a never diminishing human snake , signing his autograph . |
| 20 | Lord Palmerston was a notorious rake , having had a long-standing affair with Lady Cowper , whom he finally married in the late 1830s . |
| 21 | The war on the Western Front in 1917 — 18 had turned Chesterton into an alcoholic , a condition which he finally controlled in the later 1930s , thanks to the generosity of Mosley who financed his cure at a special clinic in Germany . |
| 22 | I plagued him till he finally arrived in the gloom of night with his needle and re-did the test virtually on the tube on the way home . |
| 23 | François Daulte 's catalogue of the oil paintings of Frédéric Bazille , the most recent volume in the distinguished series of monographs of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French masters published by the Bibliothèque des Arts , deals with the promising talent of a young artist who might have become one of the great figure painters of his generation , had he not died in the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 , at the age of twenty-nine . |
| 24 | Instead of calling in the army why does he not call in the arbitrators and give back London a proper service ? ’ . |
| 25 | Why does he not call in the authorities that he mentioned — there are others — to identify the problems that confront them and which lead to properties being left empty when clearly , a large number of people are waiting to be housed ? |
| 26 | Does he normally drive in the lorry |
| 27 | It had also occurred to him that if he wrote that report it would be the last thing he ever did in the Army . |
| 28 | It was no good , she thought , for Signor Fixit to pretend that he still lived in the age of Just William . |
| 29 | In referring once again to employee share ownership schemes , an idea that got him into trouble after the last election , he signalled that he still believed in the ‘ popular socialism ’ that he had advanced in those days as the answer to Thatcher 's ‘ popular capitalism ’ . |
| 30 | Mr Wang , 23 , looking relaxed but pale , told reporters that despite his three-and-a-half years in prison he still believed in the principles of democracy . |