Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I left in December 1928 he succeeded me in the house as Captain of Games . |
| 2 | George knelt on gravel , and taking the knife more firmly in his hand he stabbed her in the stomach . |
| 3 | Mr Denny said : ‘ He then told her to put her clothes back on but out of the blue he stabbed her in the neck . |
| 4 | He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing . |
| 5 | He collared her in the staff-room at eleven-thirty . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | He sold it in no time — at the price he originally wanted . |
| 9 | ‘ Donald is desperately ill ! ’ was the first thing she said , as he met her in the hall . |
| 10 | He met her in the doorway . |
| 11 | When he met him in the office , or on the stairs , his habitually offensive glance seemed to have a new dimension of thoughtfulness . |
| 12 | He met us in the hacienda courtyard dressed in white shirt , white jodhpurs and black riding boots . |
| 13 | He asked me in a very slow and serious voice , looking at me with solemn eyes . |
| 14 | And he asked us in a group to suggest some things that we might think of as being important . |
| 15 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Unfortunately he phoned him in the middle of the night . |
| 18 | He found her in a small kitchen . |
| 19 | He found her in the parlour , doing nothing , seated with her pale skirts spread about her . |
| 20 | He found him in a comer of the hall , already half-drunk . |
| 21 | In fact , he found him in a state of positive animation , in conversation with Chatterton about the dangers of travelling by public transport . |
| 22 | He found him in a couple of minutes , before he had properly left the house . |
| 23 | He found him in the station buffet slouched against the counter eating toasted tea-cakes . |
| 24 | The scene of crime officer kept looking at him , as if he found him in the way but did not know how to say so . |
| 25 | He found them in a mess of vomit . |
| 26 | He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 27 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 28 | ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days . |
| 29 | My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |