Example sentences of "he [vb past] in [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived in Yorkshire before his death in 1966 . |
| 2 | But it brought to mind Mrs Thatcher 's description of ex-Chancellor Nigel Lawson as ‘ unassailable ’ — shortly before he quit in protest at her opposition to Europe 's Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 3 | He agreed in part with its author , disputed the theories of many others and expanded at length on his own theory concerning the fertilisation of the date palm . |
| 4 | When that was rejected he argued in favour of his old plan of travelling on foot by the secret paths ; there were so many footpaths they could not all be watched and there was a chance that if they came upon outlaws there would be no more than one or two . |
| 5 | In particular he asked in advance of his visit to see Brig Verney of 1st Guards Brigade and two of his battalion commanders , including Col Rose-Price of 3rd Welsh Guards . |
| 6 | He had massive difficulties to overcome , concerned with funding , the medical profession , and not least the rough reception he got in wartime in what , in a letter written two weeks before he died , he called the ‘ human desert in the North of Scotland ’ . |
| 7 | Somehow it found its way into the hands of a government minister , and he got in touch with us . ’ |
| 8 | He kneeled in prayer between her thighs , his face cruel as an angel 's . |
| 9 | He stopped in front of her and wrenched her hands away from her chest . |
| 10 | He stopped in front of her , and nodded , in salute.Then , addressing her formally as if she were a grown woman , he asked to accompany her . |
| 11 | He stopped in front of her and looked down at her from what appeared just then to be a very great height . |
| 12 | Then he stopped in front of me and put his face very close to mine . |
| 13 | He stopped in front of it , tugging at the camouflage netting . |
| 14 | Abruptly , he knelt in front of her , pulling her forward into his arms again , his mouth falling to plunder the swollen redness of the lips she offered so helplessly . |
| 15 | Still he knelt in front of her , and Maria sat forward , lifting a hand and laying it open-palmed against the side of his face for a moment before tracing the angle of his cheek with gentle fingers . |
| 16 | The school , which has taken part in the festival since 1968 , was conducted by Mr Kinnock when he visited in March on his party 's election trail . |
| 17 | He roared in French at my three assailants , brandishing a huge club . |
| 18 | The notion took hold in Vicente at an early age and got serious reinforcement when he arrived in America from his native Spain ( by way of Paris ) and began to form lasting relationships with many other , then unknown , artists of the New York avant-garde . |
| 19 | He arrived in France with his battalion on 30 May 1915 , having told his mother , ‘ I do wish people would not deceive themselves by talk of a just war . |
| 20 | As a solitary horseman went by , he stepped in front of her , partially shielding her from view , then grasped her arm and propelled her swiftly across the drawbridge and into the castle in total silence . |
| 21 | Now he stepped in front of me . |
| 22 | Yeltsin presented Gorbachev with a fait accompli at the RSFSR Supreme Soviet , when on Aug. 23 he signed in front of him a decree suspending the activity of the Russian Communist Party ( RCP ) , " pending the investigation by juridical bodies of its involvement in all these events " . |
| 23 | The wind and the dust were what Crossman wanted to know about ; and he went in search of them and found them , in Coventry , in the Commons and in the Cabinet . |
| 24 | Mr Taylor bade them be seated while he went in search of his daughter . |
| 25 | And at the moment he helped her into his car , he fell in love with her . |
| 26 | ‘ Sir Henry hurt nobody except himself when he fell in love with her . |
| 27 | ‘ When my father , six months before his death , saw the car for the first time at the Paris show — where he decided to go even though his health was not good — he fell in love with it immediately . |
| 28 | He fell in love with it , and followed to where it pointed : the rest of the P-Funk clan , ska , reggae , Sugarhill rap , the Ohio Players , Earth Wind & Fire , ‘ gospel disco ’ , Sly & The Family Stone … |
| 29 | Instead he fell in love with my mother . |
| 30 | He died in semi-obscurity at his London residence in Hart Street , Bloomsbury Square , in February 1819 . |