Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in [noun] [conj] he " in BNC.

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1 ‘ That little bugger , ’ said Georgiades , ‘ may be most places in Cairo but he 's not everywhere .
2 There was Maria Filippa , however , looking at him through her glasses which had misted up in horror and grief at his outburst , gulping the air like a fish ; she was not like his sister Rosa , not one of those girls he had to protect from their own compulsions , but his own beloved and burdened wife , so reserved in bed that he even regretted her modesty himself , and so far from the whore he was about to call her , he shuddered from head to foot .
3 Until she proved otherwise she had to constantly bear in mind that he might be the enemy .
4 Perhaps they had only lived in London because he had thought it was what she wanted .
5 That would explain why his victims all stayed in bed as he blasted away with a handgun in the luxury , ranch-style home near San Diego , California .
6 He was finally arrested in London as he attempted to cash a cheque .
7 Schaub had already served in Paris and he acted jointly with Sutton from March 1721 until the latter 's departure .
8 Lying is never due to witchcraft , nor can it excuse adultery ; a thief can not plead in mitigation that he was bewitched , for witchcraft is not recognized as a cause of theft .
9 It suited Adam not to reply in German and he gesticulated wildly as he tried to make her understand .
10 It might be an involuntary reaction , which any mention of thistles always produces in Eeyore when he believes he 's out of them .
11 I had not met him socially before , but we had once clashed in court when he was counsel representing the police at the Brabin Inquiry into the Timothy Evans case .
12 One should always bear in mind that he never went back on his sympathy for the early stages of the Revolution , and his statement in 1821 , at the height of his Toryism , when he was accused of deserting France , has its own indestructible logic : ‘ You have been deluded by places and persons , while I have stuck to principles .
13 The following morning , Lucien nearly retched in horror when he walked into the practise court and saw Amber Epipheny conversing with Resenence Jeopardy .
14 Auguste caught a brief glimpse of himself in the small mirror he had unobtrusively arranged in order that he might keep an eye on events taking place behind his back ; the surreptitious addition of Mrs Marshall 's abominable Coralline pepper , for example , to an imperfect sauce .
15 A friend , Dick Wixsom , had heard about 1051 , which was now advertised in Trade-A-Plane and he asked his son , Kevin , who was going to Florida on his spring holiday , to find the aircraft and to photograph what he saw .
16 She could n't stay in Ireland if he was right about Joe Burns .
17 The sink was squared-off and old fashioned , with a white splashback and a tilting mirror ; Forester switched on the fluorescent shaving light and tried to tip the mirror to look at himself , but it would n't stay in place until he found out how to tighten a chrome-plated hexagonal nut on the hinge .
18 Hungarian-born pianist Gyorgy Gziffra has never been as well known , or for that matter , as well regarded in England as he has been on the Continent or in the USA .
19 The train could n't stop in time and he was n't there by the time we had reversed .
20 The train could n't stop in time and he was n't there by the time we had reversed .
21 He can simply state in evidence that he examined the licence and found it to be a current provisional .
22 Pascoe scratched his nose ruminatively then stopped in horror as he realized who he was imitating .
23 We did eventually rather lose touch , though we 'd sometimes meet in London when he was back .
24 You know how he 'll behave because you 'd behave the same , ’ she sneered scathingly , then yelped in alarm when he curved a large hand round her neck and urged her roughly towards him , giving Hilary little choice but to climb on to the fork .
25 But the moment Renaud reached the Saracen lines , he was put into irons ; the Christian defenders then watched in horror as he was dragged before the castle and tortured in front of them .
26 Feeling hurt and bewildered , she looked away , then squealed in alarm as he swung her up into strong arms .
27 Driving a Renault Clio 16 valve , Nigel 's event almost ended in disaster when he slid into a ditch on the first forest stage , near Chester .
28 John thought him ‘ a most remarkable boy , and certainly the most talented artist I 've yet met in S.A. If he can design costumes or not is another question .
29 And from then on it steadily increased in volume as he produced those familiar songs with which he is most popularly associated , such as Granada , Cara mia mine , Sorrento and Tosti 's L'ultima canzone .
30 He was very young — only newly qualified in Britain before he 'd decided he 'd had enough of the climate , grey and defeatist , and come to the West Indies to try his luck — but Stephen had admired his chutzpah and Christina the laid-back island style he 'd adopted .
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