Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 2 | The committee decided not to summon him , according to Chaplin , when they heard he planned to appear in the costume , boots and battered bowler of the Chaplin tramp . |
| 3 | In fact , de Valera and the civil servants he appointed to assist in the work , consulted Irish theologians on matters of society and church — state relations ( Longford and O'Neill 1970 : 295–6 ; Whyte 1980 : 379 ; Keogh 1987 ; Faughnan 1988 ) . |
| 4 | In 1825 and 1827 Hill founded , successively , continuing local associations of the Church Missionary Society and of the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews , effectively advancing each as its active secretary until he ceased to reside in the university . |
| 5 | He held the office until his death although he ceased to officiate in the House of Lords at the dissolution of Parliament in March 1629 . |
| 6 | He tried to take in the surrounding countryside that was to be his home during the months that lay ahead — if he lived that long . |
| 7 | Nathan was a simpleton : fat-faced and cretinous , with a drooly mouth and a silly smile , and when he tried to join in the hymns he made a terrible braying noise because he was turning into a man much too early . |
| 8 | He held office for twenty-seven years and became one of the most renowned figures who have ever served the BDDA , because of his devotion to the cause of deafness and the dominating position he came to hold in the deaf world . |
| 9 | Cathy was in the little office and he came to stand in the doorway . |
| 10 | Perhaps he was more specific , speaking of what he usually saw when he came to work in the morning — Eva in her blue silk pyjamas and red robe shouting and laughing and giving orders to me for breakfast , and reading aloud from the papers . |
| 11 | Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular lift of his mother 's eyebrows which he learnt to dislike in the nursery and let him think how he dislikes it . |
| 12 | His feet felt like lead and slowly , fearfully , he turned to look in the general direction of the voice . |
| 13 | The violent opposition to the king 's friends of Thomas , Earl of Lancaster , forced Audley to leave the court in 1318 , but he returned to serve in the royal army at the siege of Berwick in September 1319 . |
| 14 | Schmidt , however , like Giscard in France , showed his independence of America by talking to Soviet leaders in Moscow in July 1980 and he returned to triumph in the general election . |
| 15 | He seems to have enjoyed the patronage of influential people , who probably subsidized the books he began to publish in the Armada year of 1588 . |
| 16 | Instead there was only a blazing , triumphant surge of fulfilment as she accepted the fullness of Rune 's body into her own , and a mounting sense of exhilaration as he began to move in the age-old rhythm of possession . |
| 17 | Then he began to tumble in the air and reality took over . |
| 18 | His logical mind lent itself superbly to maths and he began to excel in the subject . |
| 19 | ‘ Then he started to dance in the car doing an impression of me — I think . ’ |
| 20 | Eventually , he decided to continue in the role of co-skipper with the American , Skip Novak . |
| 21 | He started going to ‘ Aid Spain ’ meetings and after listening to a medical student who had returned from the country he decided to help in the most direct way . |
| 22 | he decided to stay in the room and watch , |
| 23 | In Cézanne 's case this was because at first he struggled to compose in the Renaissance manner , and did it badly . |
| 24 | passenger , the driver 's brother , knew vehicle was uninsured. he consented to ride in the vehicle when , with another , he and the driver set out on a night 's drinking . |
| 25 | The early career of the great missionary John Wesley showed the problems facing Anglicans in an area without bishops ; when he went to preach in the newly-launched colony of Georgia from 1735 to 1737 the Church of England made no provision for his activity , and he went out attached to the Moravians . |
| 26 | ‘ His bedroom is that room there ; he preferred to sleep in the back . |
| 27 | That 's punishment , yeah , they would either do that or there was one driver down there he broke a wheel , that were n't his fault , and he had to pay for it , he had to go in the office like I did once . |
| 28 | So he had to wait in the house and er now it 's bed time now . |
| 29 | The following year Calero looked like getting in the Ryder Cup side , but he had to finish in the first two at York ( Benson and Hedges International ) . |
| 30 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |