Example sentences of "in [noun pl] he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two lanterns which hang from the zodiac ceiling are the architect 's own design , and the method of covering the rod with silk cord and tassel was one that he often used in houses he designed . |
| 2 | It was the first time in ages he 'd demonstrated any kind of protectiveness towards her and she could n't help warming to that . |
| 3 | Wanting to capture figures engaged in activities he made quick sketches of people reading , writing , cooking , drying themselves , or huddling close to fires . |
| 4 | She skidded to a halt , threw her leg over the saddle as though dismounting from a charger , and began to harangue Hugh in words he did n't understand . |
| 5 | His early leanings towards socialism were evident in articles he wrote under a pseudonym from 1885 to 1889 for the Manchester Examiner . |
| 6 | He realised that for the first time in weeks he had not thought of school , Murray , Fairbrother or the wretched affair of the letter . |
| 7 | Poindexter remembered a meeting one day in the Oval Office , discussing sources of contra money , when he had to move quickly to stop North blurting out that there was money available in places he knew . |
| 8 | People like our Eileen , and those poor people in places he overran . ’ |
| 9 | For the first time in years he felt what it was like to be a truly free man . |
| 10 | Now that he was getting on in years he wanted to take things just that little bit easy , not see patient after patient , cramming in as many as possible , but space them out — eight , ten a day was enough — for with his practice so long established and his clientele so solid he could n't imagine any reason to fear blanks in his appointments book . |
| 11 | He had his little peccadilloes , the quaint and rather Machiavellian ways to gain his little ends , but he knew me and I knew him , and in essentials he made good . ’ |
| 12 | In dreams he 'd drifted through these rooms , and heard the Maestro 's voice summoning him up the stairs , up ! up ! , to the room at the top where Sartori had worked his work . |
| 13 | He was at his best in features he had published on great Gloucestershire players like Charlie Barnett and Reg Sinfield . |
| 14 | His system reacted to contact with her in ways he had never experienced with Maud , or with any other woman . |
| 15 | He has destroyed everybody 's life , in ways he did not understand , but should have anticipated . |
| 16 | The doctor , however , acted in ways he found wholly admirable , and he thought that when he did get out he would apply his methods of handling patients — getting hold of them firmly and putting them into the right positions — to the positioning of his models . |
| 17 | In vacations he consoled his father 's loneliness by taking him on holiday — Cornwall , Criccieth , the Lakes , the Black Forest and Bavaria . |
| 18 | At other times in vacations he spent weeks doing hard reading in the library of Cambridge University and got good talks with Hoskyns . |
| 19 | Ken cried as he washed the make-up off his legs , hauling them into the sink and then washing them in basins he had on the floor . |
| 20 | In Tests he scored 474 runs at 27.88 . |
| 21 | In Tests he averaged above 80 with 488 runs . |
| 22 | In seconds he found himself hovering over a group of them which swayed this way and that beneath him in the dark , not nice and firm like the dead branch set in his cage . |
| 23 | In some pianos , Konnicke used individual checks like those in the instruments of Schantz , but in others he used the Walter type . |
| 24 | Careless in some situations , in others he proved punctilious . |
| 25 | Some of the territories he left empty ; but in others he placed loudspeakers , broadcasting the song of a great tit . |
| 26 | In bursts he wept , angrily . |
| 27 | The official said Mr Kohl , in remarks he made in India yesterday , wanted to ‘ put pressure on the two countries to go ahead and ratify ’ the treaty on closer European Community political and economic union . |