Example sentences of "he [verb] it in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 2 | He found it in a stoneflagged side passage , a door bearing a small brass plate : ‘ Garland ’ . |
| 3 | We shall return to the second part of the old horseman 's description : here it is necessary to emphasize that he used it in an exceptional way . |
| 4 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 5 | He swung it in a glittering arc , and it sliced through the table as though it were butter , carving its way through the heavy wood and jarring his arm , striking sparks off the stone floor . |
| 6 | Barth was deeply impressed by Anselm 's so-called ‘ Ontological Argument ’ for the existence of God — this argument will be looked at in more detail later — but he interpreted it in a particular way . |
| 7 | Before getting in , Melissa put out a hand and he took it in a firm clasp . |
| 8 | Dad , dad used to use it for the bonfires but when he , when he did n't have any petrol he used to use it on the bonfire and he had it in a secret bottle and erm he got it too near and he did n't realize and all of a sudden it goes really really hot and he threw it and everywhere . |
| 9 | ‘ He proves it in a hundred other ways . |
| 10 | And he likes it in a certain place and nobody must touch it . |
| 11 | He wrapped it in a brown paper bag , an object to be hidden . |