Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lowered himself in the saddle , then turned , looking back at her . |
| 2 | When I left in December 1928 he succeeded me in the house as Captain of Games . |
| 3 | Actually , thought Henry , as he checked himself in the mirror , no one , not even the police , would be stupid enough to imagine that Elinor could be the victim of a crime passionnel . |
| 4 | George knelt on gravel , and taking the knife more firmly in his hand he stabbed her in the stomach . |
| 5 | Mr Denny said : ‘ He then told her to put her clothes back on but out of the blue he stabbed her in the neck . |
| 6 | He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing . |
| 7 | He collared her in the staff-room at eleven-thirty . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | As he stowed everything in the boot , Ashley noticed dark smudges beneath his eyes . |
| 10 | During the second number , he draped himself in the Union Jack , presumably in an attempt to endear himself to the bulldog breed . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | He sold it in no time — at the price he originally wanted . |
| 13 | ‘ Donald is desperately ill ! ’ was the first thing she said , as he met her in the hall . |
| 14 | He met her in the doorway . |
| 15 | When he met him in the office , or on the stairs , his habitually offensive glance seemed to have a new dimension of thoughtfulness . |
| 16 | He met us in the hacienda courtyard dressed in white shirt , white jodhpurs and black riding boots . |
| 17 | He asked me in a very slow and serious voice , looking at me with solemn eyes . |
| 18 | Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated . |
| 19 | And he asked us in a group to suggest some things that we might think of as being important . |
| 20 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | There he walked and fished and took photographs which later , when he found time , he processed himself in a friend 's dark-room . |
| 23 | He flung himself in a chair and closed his eyes , giving way to sleep . |
| 24 | He seated himself in a chair and Emily paused for a moment , she could hardly ask the maid to bring the girl into the drawing-room where Spencer would be listening to every word . |
| 25 | When he had settled her , gently and with professional competence , he seated himself in the chair opposite . |
| 26 | Separating the tails of his jacket , he seated himself in the opposite chair , a frown creasing his forehead as he glanced about the room . |
| 27 | His eyes skimmed her face , his expression unreadable , as he seated himself in the armchair opposite her . |
| 28 | Then he was reaching for his own glass and inviting her to sit in one of the wicker armchairs overlooking the bay while he seated himself in the chair beside her . |
| 29 | Once he read something in a paper about Bella ; she seemed to have done rather well . |
| 30 | Unfortunately he phoned him in the middle of the night . |