Example sentences of "he [verb] in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goldner toyed with the offer , but decided to stay on at the Getty after negotiating a new contract that allowed him to remain in his hometown of New York most of the year ( with short stays in Malibu ) , in effect managing and adding to the Getty 's collection in absentia . |
| 2 | KMT secretary-general James Soong tendered his resignation in the election aftermath , but President Lee persuaded him to remain in his post . |
| 3 | However , Richard Baxter did see the Bishop , and , even though he was n't arrested , the Bishop forbade him to preach in his diocese . |
| 4 | When the patient is having long-term treatment at home , it is often worthwhile for him to invest in his own treatment plinth , if he can afford it , and if there is space for it . |
| 5 | In his mind 's eye he relived their love-making of a few hours before and the picture of Michael lying underneath him as he penetrated him rose in his mind . |
| 6 | Holly carried him cradled in his arms , retraced his steps , stretched over the low wooden fence and was back , swallowed again among the zeks . |
| 7 | Of course , Kate could have shrugged and let him stew in his own juice , or lack of it . |
| 8 | Two days later she allowed him to stand in her stable while she ate . |
| 9 | This need enables him to persist in his laborious task ( the author is indebted to Dafydd Edward Spink for permission to use this story ) : |
| 10 | Having chosen Ernulf , Anselm allowed him to work in his own way . |
| 11 | But leave him strapped in his chair . ’ |
| 12 | L'Humanité was now a communist paper , and we find him writing in its columns condemning ‘ The indifference of the proletariat in the metropole with regard to the colonies . |
| 13 | She was almost as tall as Daak , standing beside him shouting in his ear . |
| 14 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 15 | As far as I 'm concerned , the incident is over and I do n't want him meddling in our affairs . ’ |
| 16 | Now , lets say he picks him to play in your next match , and he scores 5 goals . |
| 17 | Many thanks go to all those who have kept him going in his spare time with their contributions of spare yarn . |
| 18 | His child-like enjoyment of the new equipment and gadgetry he came to be able to afford in later life gave warmly affectionate amusement to his friends especially when they found him camping in his own front garden in the latest tent and sleeping bag , or were asked to take him , when he was stone-blind from glaucoma , to the locations of his favourite plants to photograph them with an auto-focus camera . |
| 19 | The clue to his gardening success in such unpromising terrain can be found at Hidcote in Gloucestershire , for it was a visit there during the 1960s that inspired him to hedge in his land , making a series of compartments to protect plants from the weather . |
| 20 | She moved away when he sat near her , went into town to change her library books instead of going home when he invented a string of excuses that would enable him to walk in her direction . |
| 21 | And he got upset , so I ended up having to bring him downstairs , give him his lunch first and then I put him to sleep in his pram this is all since the weekend this |
| 22 | I brought him downstairs give him his dinner and then I put him to sleep in his pram in the front room , but I think that 'd also er |
| 23 | cos you know he was that shattered he was falling asleep downstairs before I put him in his cot , so it was a case then of putting him to sleep in his cot |
| 24 | I heard him move in his chair . |
| 25 | The very qualities that had recently prompted him to opt in its favour were now distasteful : its methodical impersonality and the inherent compartmental separateness from " life " that its impersonal , scientific character presupposed — and with it the all too familiar compartmentalization within the subject itself . |
| 26 | I let him sleep in my room at night , and he kept me awake for hours talking about Mrs Robinson . |
| 27 | And what 's more , Uncle Pumblechook , realizing that this boy 's fortune may be made by going to Miss Havisham 's , has offered to take him into town tonight in his carriage , and let him sleep in his own house , and deliver him tomorrow to Miss Havisham 's . |
| 28 | In this connection it is interesting to go back to William Smith , the father of stratigraphy , and to find him commenting in his memoir to the first geological map in 1815 : " The edges of the strata … are called their outcrops ; and the under edge of every stratum , being the top of the next , and that being generally the best defined , is represented by the fullest part of each colour " . |
| 29 | Not much of a ‘ Peril ’ maybe , but if you see him moving in your direction I suggest that you start moving in the opposite one . |
| 30 | She saw him draw in his breath as he drank in her youthful beauty . |