Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh as he said something , he loves driving , but he hates driving in London . |
| 2 | He goes to live in London with Herbert Pocket , and is turned into a gentleman , living an expensive but futile sort of existence , and becoming ashamed of Joe and his village origins . |
| 3 | After that it will be decided whether or not he goes chasing in the New Year . |
| 4 | — That night , a perfect night for Manjiku , when he goes prowling in his hunger , under a moon that 's big as the sun , Amadé slides her body into the sea and feels chilled with terror , though the water 's not really cold , the sun shines on it all day . |
| 5 | He sits wreathed in smoke , taking my confession like a Catholic priest . |
| 6 | The scribes he studies worked in the 14th century — 800 years after Dr Marchand 's Goths had relinquished Italy . |
| 7 | This is the most he has conceded in some 250 outings for Bangor , an appearance record that tops any Seasider goalkeeper in the last 30 years . |
| 8 | Denis Cannan 's Dear Daddy ( 1976 ) , again , another successful stage comedy , tells of a virtuous middle-aged family man whose life is triumphantly self-organised down to its last petty details — exactly one-third of a bottle of wine at dinner every evening — until the comfortable domestic order he has created in his second marriage turns into an object of irrational despair to those around him ; and when his first wife , ruined by alcohol , abruptly re-enters his world , he is forced to accept a share of deferred responsibility for the wreckage of her life . |
| 9 | Since 1981 he has lived in Paris and this is his first ‘ French ’ novel , set in a fashionable Parisian intellectual world where the principal characters sit a health club discussing this and that , with the author , from time to time , joining in . |
| 10 | Although he has lived in the UK since 1969 , Zarei was born in Iran and is often listed as Iranian , but he is officially a British athlete , and won an England vest when competing in the Milton Keynes 24-hour Championships in 1989 . |
| 11 | GERALD MALONE , official Conservative was appointed by the Winchester branch of the party as their prospective candidate some 18 months ago , since when he has lived in the area . |
| 12 | Since 1956 he has lived in France . |
| 13 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 14 | For 18 years he has lived in the same house in London 's Gospel Oak , though he could easily afford the neighbouring and more upmarket Hampstead . |
| 15 | He has lived in his rickety hut for most of his fifty years . |
| 16 | Although Aldo Ciccolini is Neapolitan by birth , he has lived in France since 1949 and taught at the Paris Conservatoire , and has made fine recordings of French piano music including works by Saint-Saëns and Satie . |
| 17 | It seems that he speaks no English although he has lived in this country for some time ; he is in fact Italian by birth . |
| 18 | Sachin Tandulkar , Yorkshire 's first-ever overseas player , does his best to look as if he has lived in the northern county all his life |
| 19 | He has lived in a large house in Buckinghamshire for several years . |
| 20 | In this way he has lived in Nazi Germany or sat beside a small girl in Vietnam who gazes into the distance with a fixed stare and cries into the silence with a monotonous , elemental shriek . |
| 21 | But he has remained in contact with the motor racing as a broadcaster and interviewer . |
| 22 | When Iago outlines his plan to regain Othello 's respect through the intervention of Desdemona , Cassio is grateful : The point that this sequence establishes is that Cassio , like Roderigo before him , and like Othello , and Desdemona after him , trusts Iago and believes that he has appeared in the nick of time , solely in order to help him . |
| 23 | Over the years he has appeared in The Stone Boy , The Outsiders , Rumblefish , The Cotton Club , Paradise Alley and , most memorably , as the down-and-out DJ in Jim Jarmusch 's Down By Law and the jinked hobo in Hector Babenco 's Ironweed . |
| 24 | He has appeared in charity shows at the club for more than 20 years and we well-known throughout the area for his untiring efforts for worthy causes . |
| 25 | Mr Field followed his talk with a film on a very original model railway which he has constructed in his garden at Oldbury . |
| 26 | I am not in the least surprised that he has fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 27 | I expect he has fallen in love . |
| 28 | He has conquered in earth 's name . |
| 29 | Based in Whale Beach in Sydney , he has featured in ( Australian ) Penthouse and Playboy and been named among the country 's fifty most eligible bachelors . |
| 30 | Displaying remarkable maturity for a 22-year-old he has emerged in the last 18 months as the game 's outstanding personality , a player blessed with the full range of skills , someone with an unflappable temperament to match . |