Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was altogether typical of him that his unshakeable beliefs should prevent him continuing to serve in the Government once the Anglo-Irish agreement was signed . |
| 2 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 3 | The committee decided not to summon him , according to Chaplin , when they heard he planned to appear in the costume , boots and battered bowler of the Chaplin tramp . |
| 4 | In fact , de Valera and the civil servants he appointed to assist in the work , consulted Irish theologians on matters of society and church — state relations ( Longford and O'Neill 1970 : 295–6 ; Whyte 1980 : 379 ; Keogh 1987 ; Faughnan 1988 ) . |
| 5 | In 1825 and 1827 Hill founded , successively , continuing local associations of the Church Missionary Society and of the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews , effectively advancing each as its active secretary until he ceased to reside in the university . |
| 6 | He held the office until his death although he ceased to officiate in the House of Lords at the dissolution of Parliament in March 1629 . |
| 7 | He tried to take in the surrounding countryside that was to be his home during the months that lay ahead — if he lived that long . |
| 8 | Nathan was a simpleton : fat-faced and cretinous , with a drooly mouth and a silly smile , and when he tried to join in the hymns he made a terrible braying noise because he was turning into a man much too early . |
| 9 | well what the first thing he do and he has to go in the |
| 10 | It could be a good indicator for the Deep South where Bush must make an impact if he wants to stay in the race . |
| 11 | But it 's the nature of the offence as such that if a soldier is bullied , he 's unlikely if he wants to stay in the Army , to bring it to the attention of the authorities , because he know that afterwards he has then to live with the people who he 's complained about . |
| 12 | If he wants to stay in the race he may have no alternative but to abandon his original proposal and announce a rival offer on improved terms . |
| 13 | A second important difference is that if he misses his place in a routine he will be totally lost , whereas if he happens to go in the wrong direction while using a map he is still able to make whatever correction is necessary . |
| 14 | He held office for twenty-seven years and became one of the most renowned figures who have ever served the BDDA , because of his devotion to the cause of deafness and the dominating position he came to hold in the deaf world . |
| 15 | Cathy was in the little office and he came to stand in the doorway . |
| 16 | Perhaps he was more specific , speaking of what he usually saw when he came to work in the morning — Eva in her blue silk pyjamas and red robe shouting and laughing and giving orders to me for breakfast , and reading aloud from the papers . |
| 17 | Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular lift of his mother 's eyebrows which he learnt to dislike in the nursery and let him think how he dislikes it . |
| 18 | His feet felt like lead and slowly , fearfully , he turned to look in the general direction of the voice . |
| 19 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what percentage of his budget he intends to spend in the current year and next year on ( a ) opera and ( b ) poetry . |
| 20 | In Scotland , after Dalmahoy , he intends to play in the Clydesdale Bank Northern Open at Nairn Dunbar in June and the Gore-Tex Challenge at Cawder in August . |
| 21 | The violent opposition to the king 's friends of Thomas , Earl of Lancaster , forced Audley to leave the court in 1318 , but he returned to serve in the royal army at the siege of Berwick in September 1319 . |
| 22 | Schmidt , however , like Giscard in France , showed his independence of America by talking to Soviet leaders in Moscow in July 1980 and he returned to triumph in the general election . |
| 23 | He seems to have enjoyed the patronage of influential people , who probably subsidized the books he began to publish in the Armada year of 1588 . |
| 24 | Instead there was only a blazing , triumphant surge of fulfilment as she accepted the fullness of Rune 's body into her own , and a mounting sense of exhilaration as he began to move in the age-old rhythm of possession . |
| 25 | Then he began to tumble in the air and reality took over . |
| 26 | His logical mind lent itself superbly to maths and he began to excel in the subject . |
| 27 | ‘ Then he started to dance in the car doing an impression of me — I think . ’ |
| 28 | Eventually , he decided to continue in the role of co-skipper with the American , Skip Novak . |
| 29 | He started going to ‘ Aid Spain ’ meetings and after listening to a medical student who had returned from the country he decided to help in the most direct way . |
| 30 | he decided to stay in the room and watch , |