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

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1 Afterwards Ivanisevic described his opponent as ‘ an idol for me ’ and said : ‘ This match is always going to be in my memory because he is leaving tennis and I beat him .
2 I sat in many a night myself when you were all younger , waiting for that piss artist of a father of yours to come home , knowing in my heart that he was down the Bayswater Road , spending desperately needed money on old brasses .
3 We would sit deep into the night in my sitting-room while he played the music he had chosen and he explained his ideas for its interpretation .
4 said it looked alright , but to me she said it 's terrible because it 's so short , I 've never had it this short in my life but he said it looked OK
5 He did n't even curl a lip in my direction and he did n't howl when I playfully cuffed him behind the ear .
6 I was prepared to be rock solid in my refusal to resign and in my insistence that he withdrew that damning memo . ’
7 He made such a great hole in my gum that he had to stitch me up afterwards . "
8 And that busy little brain of yours presumably also believes that I was in my dressing-gown because he stayed the night .
9 I take the tube in my hand while he lights the foil from underneath .
10 Well I took it out , a load of it out this morning in my hand cos he were nearly sitting on it !
11 I could see from the onlooking faces that he was coming for me and at what speed , and when I felt the air behind me move and heard the brush of his clothes I went down fast on one knee and whirled and punched upwards hard into the bottom of his advancing rib cage and then shifted my weight into his body and upwards so as to lift him wholesale off the floor , and before he 'd got that sorted out I had one of his wrists in my hand and he ended up on his feet with me behind him , his arm in a nice painful lock and my mouth by his ear .
12 ‘ Clinton 's sex appeal shot up in my opinion when he became President . ’
13 Surely there was an austere pride in the words of Thoreau when he wrote that he was regarded as the least important man in his village , and there is no doubt in my mind that he must have savoured the aroma of that rare emotion .
14 That effort marked him as a classic possible and his work on the gallops leaves no doubt in my mind that he has trained on and can dispose of Azhar on his way to better things .
15 Although he was initially delighted to be a father , Keith was totally unable to cope with the responsibility and came and went in their relationship as he pleased , giving little help or support .
16 Henry continued to place the puppets in folds of Christmas paper and lay them in their boxes as he said , ‘ It 'll be like last year ; the Lord of the Manor will have bought her so much that everybody else 's presents will be eclipsed . ’
17 Owen was swinging back to order the rest of the party to dismount in their turn when he heard a voice raised suddenly at a little distance in a long , challenging hail .
18 He kept dropping off in their presence because he went to work at three every morning .
19 Gallacher led the Newcastle protests which increased in their ferocity after he was pulled down in the box and denied the penalty that would level the score .
20 Once or twice as they waited for the ceremonial to begin he saw the eyes of the Annamese sovereign shift anxiously in their direction and he dabbed occasionally at his pale perspiring face with a silken handkerchief that he held concealed in one of his voluminous sleeves .
21 In Scotland , solicitors sell more properties than estate agents and it is probable , therefore , that there are more property specialists in their ranks than he imagines .
22 They had tried to persuade Harry to have a bed in their dormitory but he would n't agree .
23 She heard his footsteps in the hall and her jumbled thoughts halted in their tracks as he entered , hands thrust casually into the pockets of his denims .
24 There was , Aunt Margaret said , a safe in their bedroom where he kept the money until he took it in to the bank at the end of the week in the massive , gleaming , opulent-looking calf-skin briefcase with a very large lock .
25 Turnour seems to be happy to be insulted as he enjoys putting people in their places and he was used to it and relished it .
26 She liked flowers and planted flowers in their garden but he often felt she did n't really care about the moor .
27 Is a judge ever conscious that his reputation as a judge is likely to be adversely affected in their eyes if he decides one way , and favourably affected if he decides another way ?
28 He talked through the whole drama again with them , explaining the various problems their son had had , discussing the probable outcome of each of his injuries had he survived , and then , when there was no doubt left in their minds that he should have died , he gave them even more .
29 He was rude to officials and contemptuous of backbenchers less successful in their careers than he had been since becoming MP for Putney in 1979 .
30 Charlie left his men resting in their tents while he set out to do his own private recce .
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