Example sentences of "he [vb -s] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALAN LEONARD aims to add another string to his bow when he plays in the Irish National Pairs championship finals in Blackrock , County Dublin next weekend . |
| 2 | But now he 's retired I 've heard that , when he plays in the odd charity match , he has a go now . |
| 3 | show exactly the worth he discerns in the Trojan conflict . |
| 4 | When man 's lifestyle is more natural , basic and strenuous , he glories in the ornate . |
| 5 | Your own son needs to be encouraged to behave in a mature way , while your stepson has to be reassured that he belongs in the new family . |
| 6 | PHILLIP McCallen will make his first Irish road race appearance of the season outside the North West 200 and Ulster Grand Prix when he rides in the Loughshinny Club 's meeting at Killalane near Skerries on Saturday and Sunday . |
| 7 | But , an hour later , the models tearing at his clothes as he lies in the king-size bed , he seems resigned to the proceedings . |
| 8 | Today he lives in the Eastern Thai town of Trat and , although officially retired , is still regarded as the overall leader of the Khmer Rouge . |
| 9 | He will instead compete at Stoke where he lives in the British Student Championships on June 27 and 28 . |
| 10 | Those musical orbits described by the fertile planets of Loose Tubes and the Jazz Warriors dominated the polls , with Andy Sheppard continuing to make his individual mark as he has in the past two years . |
| 11 | St Augustine did not explain how the mind could be an accurate chronometer for the timing of external events , but as the pioneer of the study of psychological time he stands in the front rank of those who have contributed to the understanding of our sense of time . |
| 12 | Now he stands in the small parking lot at the back of the hospital , bargaining with God . |
| 13 | As he says in the following extract : |
| 14 | ‘ Hullo , mate , ’ he says in the English accent of his late father . |
| 15 | Patrick Taylor has visited the 400 places he describes in the pocket-sized The Gardener 's Guide to Britain ( Pavilion , £9.99 ) . |
| 16 | He dwells in the unapproachable light of the shekinah glory , and reminds his people Israel that his thoughts are not their thoughts or their ways his ways ( Isa. 55:8 ) . |
| 17 | Well when he gets in the right places he 's only been doing schools and you know ? |
| 18 | Sacked three times from the county football manager post , McEniff can be forgiven the odd pinch of himself as he takes in the widespread adulation accorded to him now everywhere he goes . |
| 19 | Shear delight : Crumlin YFC member Gary Davidson wastes no time as he competes in the annual sheep shearing contest organised by Holestone and Straid YFC at the Ballyclare May Fair . |
| 20 | His clients are mostly dealers and decorators so he specialises in the unusual . |
| 21 | That magnate looks quite diminished as he crouches in the forward seat with his cloak wrapped awkwardly about him ; but how gloriously his underling has been transformed . |
| 22 | If , then , all the evangelists agree that Jesus is the unique bearer of the Spirit , in whose power he ushers in the Messianic Age , they are no less agreed on a second vital point . |
| 23 | The homosexual ‘ knows intimately in himself the generality that he finds in the other ’ : ‘ in the homosexual act I remain locked within my body , narcissistically contemplating in the other an excitement that is the mirror of my own ’ ( pp. 307 , 310 ) . |
| 24 | The researcher 's own observations , albeit as yet rather unsystematic , seem to be supported to a degree by what he reads in the relevant literature and in other pieces of published research . |
| 25 | And more : the political bureaucracy , the ‘ Nomenklatura ’ as Voslensky calls the three million or so people he numbers in the Soviet ruling class has the most powerful reason of self-interest for opposing ‘ revisionism ’ . |
| 26 | However , an investment manager ( such as an IMRO member ) who uses a firm as a broker will not be a market counterparty under this head , and will thus be a customer unless he falls in the listed categories test category of market counterparty ; in particular , this means that the best execution rules will apply . |
| 27 | He surrounds himself with an entourage of loyal courtiers , some from the store , others from the office , taking several at a time for convivial weekends of dog-walking , tennis and log fires at his country villa on the River Po — a sharp contrast to the rather gloomy , solitary week nights he spends in the industrial wasteland of the Via Borgonuovo . |
| 28 | These are not , furthermore , isolated examples ; in scene four , Anderson has the longest turn ( 86 words compared with the next longest , McKendrick 's 47 ) as he does in the final scene ( 53 words against McKendrick 's 14 ) . |
| 29 | He revels in the physical quality of the paint and that sheer primaeval force and energy is there for all to see in the late works . |
| 30 | He works in the Industrial Engineering Department as a Graduate Trainee , and has recently attended a six week course at the Institute of Management in Nottingham . |