Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hugged himself in self-pity as we took in this alien race dressed with an abandonment and originality we 'd never imagined possible . |
| 2 | He sold it in 1989 to John Kluge , the richest man in the US , whose wife fancied living next to Balmoral . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | He got it in nine seconds . |
| 6 | He looked too big for the room as he seated himself in one of the armchairs . |
| 7 | He was a fanatical fisherman , and here on the borders of Galway and Mayo he found himself in some of the best fishing waters in Europe . |
| 8 | He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile . |
| 9 | He found one in three of the girls and one in five of the boys wanted to be thinner . |
| 10 | What Pausanias implies is that he found nothing in this source about the Celtic art of divination which had been extolled by Posidonius and other authorities . |
| 11 | ‘ So what I 'm working up to telling you is that when he got silly he let anyone in that house . |
| 12 | He drew it in 1914 when he was an art student in Munich . |
| 13 | He caught her in two strides and his expression was neither analytical nor taunting . |
| 14 | She went off with a GI during the war and he divorced her in nineteen forty-six . ’ |
| 15 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 16 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 17 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 18 | He told me in one of his more lucid states that he ca n't write because he 's got too much to say … ’ |
| 19 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 20 | Does he recall that it is exactly a year since he told us in this House , ’ Our policies are working ’ ? |
| 21 | He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone . |
| 22 | Then he knew where she was — or would be , moments after he committed himself in one direction : behind him . |
| 23 | It 's by an English painter , William Turner , he painted it in 1822 . |
| 24 | But if Josephus used Nicolas of Damascus , he reinterpreted him in Jewish terms . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ There was one teacher , Mr Richardson , and he encouraged me in all the sports I did , really . |
| 27 | His two teenage sons were fanatically keen on farming and he encouraged them in all the agricultural skills ; but he fed the calves himself . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | David Snow settles for 65 species including one , the grey-winged cotinga , which he discovered himself in 1980 . |
| 30 | He addressed them in short , pithy sentences and promptly began his interrogation of each of them . |