Example sentences of "he [verb] it in [art] [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 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | He buried it in the back garden , near the fence , overlooking the park that overlooks the city of which his father was so proud . |
| 8 | He paid it in the same spirit that he washed himself-obsessively . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Everything you say , he takes it in the wrong way . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Before getting in , Melissa put out a hand and he took it in a firm clasp . |
| 13 | He turned the car , his hands moving swiftly and expertly as he manoeuvred it in the narrow lane . |
| 14 | He expresses it in the following way : |
| 15 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |
| 16 | He bought it in the Swinging Sixties and had never worn it . |
| 17 | He did it in the classic manner , by pitching the ball well up and bowling very , very quickly , and the fact that he needed help from his colleagues for only two of those wickets shows just how accurate he was . |
| 18 | It was for Couples , already top of the world rankings , his first major championship and he did it in the same accomplished manner that has already marked two earlier victories on the American tour . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ He proves it in a hundred other ways . |
| 21 | And he likes it in a certain place and nobody must touch it . |
| 22 | In 1968 the Government introduced the Newspaper Ordnance ( Amendment ) Bill , which empowered the president to order a newspaper to cease publication when he considered it in the public interest to do so . |
| 23 | He wrapped it in a brown paper bag , an object to be hidden . |