Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sold it in 1989 to John Kluge , the richest man in the US , whose wife fancied living next to Balmoral . |
| 2 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 3 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 4 | He got it in nine seconds . |
| 5 | He drew it in 1914 when he was an art student in Munich . |
| 6 | He caught her in two strides and his expression was neither analytical nor taunting . |
| 7 | She went off with a GI during the war and he divorced her in nineteen forty-six . ’ |
| 8 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 9 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 10 | He told me in one of his more lucid states that he ca n't write because he 's got too much to say … ’ |
| 11 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 12 | Does he recall that it is exactly a year since he told us in this House , ’ Our policies are working ’ ? |
| 13 | He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone . |
| 14 | It 's by an English painter , William Turner , he painted it in 1822 . |
| 15 | But if Josephus used Nicolas of Damascus , he reinterpreted him in Jewish terms . |
| 16 | The voters of the Shankill Road in Belfast , traditionally the home of working class populist independent unionism , had supported Johnny McQuade rather than the UDA or UVF and McQuade had taken that vote into the DUP when he joined it in 1971 . |
| 17 | ‘ There was one teacher , Mr Richardson , and he encouraged me in all the sports I did , really . |
| 18 | His two teenage sons were fanatically keen on farming and he encouraged them in all the agricultural skills ; but he fed the calves himself . |
| 19 | It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households . |
| 20 | He addressed them in short , pithy sentences and promptly began his interrogation of each of them . |
| 21 | And he cut it in ten blocks . |
| 22 | He humiliated me in other ways too . |
| 23 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 24 | Furthermore he interpreted it in such a way that ‘ support ’ was not an empty word . |
| 25 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 26 | And then he pulled her in close again and ravaged her neck so that Robyn shrieked aloud and knew all the while that she was falling deeper and deeper … |
| 27 | He waved me in first . |
| 28 | This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’ |
| 29 | He was almost sure that it was all a revelation to her and he watched her in sad silence as she covered her face and shook with sobs . |
| 30 | Then he took me in both hands and pushed my legs into the top of the bone . |