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

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1 He took Ellie by her forearm , and marched her down the landing and the painted uncarpeted stairs into the living room , where he sat her in the big chair in the corner .
2 The man half carried , half pulled her into a nearby pub , where he propped her in a Windsor chair and went to fetch water from the bar .
3 That he wrote it in the winter of 1940 – 41 gave an indication of the insecurity which underlay his apparent aloofness .
4 What is most important , however , is that he embodies them in a distinction , crucially important for his thought , between two sorts of science : ‘ indefinite science ’ , which ‘ consists in the knowledge of the causes of all things ’ , and the study of some ‘ limited ’ question about the ‘ cause of some determined appearance ’ such as heat .
5 If he proposes to say something new , I hope that , as the guardian of the interests of all parts of the House , you Mr. Speaker , will make representations to try to make sure that he does it in the House rather than just making a speech or holding a press conference , even if it is in Wales .
6 Going through Joe 's mind as he mounted the stairs were thoughts which were very similar , except that he expressed his in a slightly different way .
7 hinting that he had plenty in the bank .
8 But even if your romantic beau whispers ‘ I love you ’ daily in your shell-like , it does n't mean that he loves you in the way that you love him .
9 The emphasis on pace bowling meant that he found himself in a rather curious position .
10 I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea .
11 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 .
12 There is , it seems , a strong possibility that he abandoned her in the West and took their baby son over to the Russian zone .
13 ‘ Oh , I hope I shall always be Kingy to you , Miss Sally-Anne , ’ making it clear that he included her in the charmed circle of his friends .
14 In due course we might look closer at that episode with the Gilberd : she admits after much blushing and prevarication that he accused her in the High Street delicatessen of baby-snatching — did it openly , in a loud voice .
15 Though my son , that 's my eldest , in the Royal Navy , wrote that he has them in the Pacific . ’
16 To make him need her more than he needed anything in the whole of Chung Kuo .
17 He was mad with anger and jealousy , so he locked her in the tower , with only a spinning-wheel for company .
18 And said , so it 's completely anonymous and all that and he said oh I ca n't be bothered to send that in , so he chucked it in the bin and they phoned him up and said why have n't you sent your form in ?
19 Fortunately , one of her friends had done a first aid course so he put her in the recovery position and cleared her airways , then gave her the kiss of life .
20 But as all the figures were multiplied by a factor of ten , the area was too great to be enclosed in the Mediterranean , so he placed it in the Atlantic ; and the date was put back into remote antiquity , thousands of years too early .
21 Once he read something in a paper about Bella ; she seemed to have done rather well .
22 Best of all , his work would take on a new virility once he rooted himself in the earth and responded to what he called its ‘ music ’ , experiencing its moods as ‘ symphonic , dramatic ’ .
23 While Blanche tries to pass him in one of the passages he grabs her and he hurts her in the cruellest and most brutal way .
24 She began screaming and he punched her in the face and ran off .
25 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 .
26 And he likes it in a certain place and nobody must touch it .
27 Unless he 's got a monthly account and he keeps it in a book !
28 And he gets the spade and hits her on the head with it and he goes , I never want to talk to you again and he kicks her in the head .
29 The scar goes right up to his elbow and he got it in a fight just like the scar he 's going to have round his throat . ’
30 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 .
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