Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of this , the Earl of Lauderdale , a friend and admirer of Baxter 's , with the King 's permission , offered him any position he cared for in Scotland , either a church , a bishopric or a university position . |
| 2 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 3 | Girouard mentions that the Duke of Portland sacked any housemaid he met with in the corridors , and that a certain Lord M in Wiltshire never spoke to a servant unless to give an order . |
| 4 | What he sues for in each case is loss caused to him by the use of an unlawful weapon against him — intimidation of another person by unlawful means . ’ |
| 5 | But he got in in this , you know they moved moved w w you know would |
| 6 | Those are only the qualities he looks for in the people who work for him , though . |
| 7 | Yeah and Mike 's seen him like that and mum went round the ward and she made all the beds to help them and all , we had to bribe them to look after him , but was he looked after in the end , on Saturday I said look , I said do n't fucking come over here and tell me my dad 's gon na be turned in a minute I said because a minute is a minute , I said but when you come over here three and a half hours later to my dad that 's like three years , he 's in excruciating agony , he wants to turn him when you tell him you 're gon na turn him |
| 8 | We know that the right hon. Gentleman would add to taxation , for he needs to in order to sustain his promises . |
| 9 | Three generations later , the third John Pollexton inherited Mothecombe in 1700 and proceeded to build what he referred to in his will as ‘ the new house by me erected ’ . |
| 10 | Lear was a lonely , awkward boy , frightened by depression , the deaths of four of his sisters , and frequent attacks epilepsy , which he referred to in his ignorance as ‘ The Morbids ’ and ‘ The Terrible Demon ’ . |
| 11 | I am sure he would have considered that both technical accomplishment and , though not perhaps in the modern sense , introspection , were valuable for the poet , but the labour and intense study which you 'll have noticed he referred to in that passage I 've read , consisted of course of learning large numbers of languages , which he clearly did with great fluency , and reading inordinately the whole of human literature . |
| 12 | Despite the fact that David was expelled in the third form for dissing the gym teacher who confiscated his Uzi and broke his crack-peddling ring , he still feels enough loyalty to the old alma mater not to drag its name through the mud by engaging the lads he fagged for in a ‘ naughty-word ’ style debate . |
| 13 | you 're not too sure what he wants , he 's agreed to see you next week , he does n't know why he 's seeing you but you go back and you present , so try and overcome rejection but the thing was he wants to in the first place . |
| 14 | Chapman hopes Leeds do better than the Arsenal team he played for in his last European appearance 10 years ago . |
| 15 | I remember erm one morning he came in in a bit of erm he was obviously very annoyed about something and er , when he was in those sort of moods he used to expect erm all sort of reports to be presented and er he wanted er statistics which nobody else had ever thought of and erm Arthur who as I have s hinted before was erm really my sort of guardian angel he , he sort of er did a great deal for me . |
| 16 | And erm there 's a lot they 've they 've they 've done some television work on him and anyway er in nineteen O three , he came over in the you know about in nineteen hundred with his family and I 've got a picture of them in that 's where he came from in . |
| 17 | Well I 've cooked him one , cos it 's no good if he waltzes in in half an hour and says his hungry . |
| 18 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 19 | Montaine and I were not similar in any obvious way , but Jean-Claude may well have detected in me something of the quality he relied on in his sister . |
| 20 | The practice he worked for in Bolton , Lancashire , did not notify the area health authority or tell patients of his illness . |
| 21 | He had worked for various firms doing all sorts of jobs , for he was nothing if not adaptable , and recently , just as he was approaching retirement , the firm he worked for in Deptford had become bankrupt . |
| 22 | In the way it lays bare dark emotional rumblings normally concealed beneath the constraints of village life , Went the Day Well ? suggests Cavalcanti had learned as much from the Surrealists he worked with in Paris as from Britain 's documentarists . |
| 23 | One of the girls he worked with in the office wrote a humorous poem . |
| 24 | If the promisor gets what he asks for in return for his promise , he has received sufficient consideration and is bound . |
| 25 | from 's Group Information Services department at Ipswich took the opportunity to spend some time in the USA 18 months ago , when he went to in Kansas to set up an Information Technology department . |
| 26 | He spoke with distinction , one with significance , knowing what he was saying in spite of the unpretentious rabble he listened to in reply . |
| 27 | Ten years ago , if you asked any tennis player what he looked for in a court , you would probably get 10 different answers . |
| 28 | Where does he get to in me ? |
| 29 | Starting at Chester on Sunday , McGuigan will scuttle through Britain 's forests in his Vauxhall Nova for four days , chasing away the thought that he may lose every penny he battled for in the ring if his appeal against £450,000 libel damages plus legal costs fails . |
| 30 | Of great importance was his work on the development of commercial crystallizers , which he dealt with in his 1947 presidential address . |