Example sentences of "he [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following BILL HICKS ' recent ‘ it does n't matter who you vote for , the government always gets it ’ rant against the American presidential campaign in these pages , we invited him to sit in a room on election night with STEPHEN DALTON and explain why he 's mellowed to the idea of Clinton |
| 2 | The man next to him winked in a fast act of conspiracy , a runner bean of a man who then extended his hand to Holly and their fists gripped in a distant greeting , but there were no words . |
| 3 | Make him disappear in a puff of smoke ? ’ |
| 4 | If his brother Ulf was involved , as stated by Saxo Grammaticus and possibly lost northern sources , he too must have made his peace with Cnut , who allegedly had him assassinated in a church at Roskilde . |
| 5 | Someone came back with him to plug in a telephone . |
| 6 | Athelstan was always surprised at-the effect he caused ; here he was in a place where man died for the price of a few coins , but at the sight of the lighted wax candle , the sound of the small tinkling bell and him swathed in a cope , the coarsest men and women stood aside as if they acknowledged the great mysteries he carried. , |
| 7 | She watched him sprawl in a cane chair on the terrace , light a cigar , and pick up a book , uncaring of the many and varied insects homing in on the light above him . |
| 8 | She would let him know in a fortnight . |
| 9 | The next morning they found him perched in a tree . |
| 10 | Britain 's biggest motor racing crowd of the year will be there to see him driving in a touring car … what we all want to know is whether we 'll see him driving in grand prix again … |
| 11 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 12 | The appointment enabled him to engage in a process of comparing and contrasting between his main job and the health one . |
| 13 | He was swearing steadily and obscenely as he did so , realising that the windscreen damage inflicted by the near miss would make it well-nigh impossible for him to engage in a high speed chase now . |
| 14 | When a female appears , her swollen abdomen holding eggs is a stimulus for him to engage in a zig zag dance . |
| 15 | Former Cray Research Inc chairman John Rollwagen has withdrawn his name from further consideration for the number two post at the US Commerce Department after the Securities & Exchange Commission asked him to participate in an insider trading probe centring on sale of shares in Cray Computer Corp ahead of that company 's announcement that it had lost its only Cray 3 order . |
| 16 | They left him slumped in a drunken stupor against the church wall . |
| 17 | They tried to imagine him acting in a comic manner the part of a man who had murdered three wives in a bath . |
| 18 | But the university authorities agreed to rearrange an examination to allow him to play in a Varsity rugby match at Twickenham . |
| 19 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 20 | We thought of him lying in a cell . |
| 21 | With Sissy she eventually discovers him lying in a disused mine shaft , and is with him when he dies . |
| 22 | She found him lying in a pool of blood in his cot . |
| 23 | I saw him lying in a hospital corridor . ’ |
| 24 | Seeing him lying in a coffin with a stake through his heart might go some way to convince me . |
| 25 | She then wrapped the baby up , left him lying in a wood and returned to work , Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard yesterday . |
| 26 | Seeing him lying in an incubator for the first time was a uniquely distressing experience . |
| 27 | The piper was coming towards him wrapped in a black cloak , playing … what had he been playing ? |
| 28 | To establish immunity it would be necessary for the valuer to show a " formulated dispute " ( see 15.5 ) had been put to him to resolve in a judicial manner ; or , in other words , that he had been an arbitrator . |
| 29 | That is his strength — but also his weakness , since music tends to take second place and leave him locked in a radical cabaret slot from which he is unlikely to emerge . |
| 30 | The immediate result was the short love poem which he later revised and expanded as ‘ The Eolian Harp ’ , but which even in its original form showed him speaking in a manner now distinctively his own . |