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

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1	It 's just that this other woman to whom he comes fresh enables him to see himself in a different , more exciting and rejuvenating light .
2	She would have to have a word with her father about this man and find out what on earth had inspired him to hire him in the first place .
3	She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him .
4	Every time I 've asked him to do anything in the last three days , I ca n't , working out the quiz .
5	As she went upstairs she saw him toss something in a little glass down his throat in one gulp and she saw the swollen nicotine-stained fingers and the watery bad-tempered eyes .
6	Dennis had given us a rough time in the previous two Tests and so I started to chat to him to get him in a favourable mood for when it was our turn to bat .
7	I was the one who mucked up his texts worse than any of the others , that 's what made him notice me in the first place . ’
8	I caught him watching me in the third .
9	He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing .
10	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
11	And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim .
12	Separating the tails of his jacket , he seated himself in the opposite chair , a frown creasing his forehead as he glanced about the room .
13	It must be admitted that a great deal of what Judaeo-Christianity has to say about the ‘ goodness ’ of God is based upon claims about the way in which He involves himself in the historical process .
14	He found her in a small kitchen .
15	When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee .
16	But he found himself in a double bind ; the bankers said they would withdraw their support if he left and this would have killed the business instantly .
17	Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in .
18	As the town hall clock struck twelve he found himself in an untidy cul-de-sac beneath the railway arches .
19	No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled .
20	He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop .
21	My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj .
22	He found it in a stoneflagged side passage , a door bearing a small brass plate : ‘ Garland ’ .
23	He helped everybody in the local community .
24	He helped her in a two-year battle against cancer and to come to terms with her double mastectomy .
25	But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar .
26	She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her .
27	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 .
28	Then , before she realised what was happening , he fastened her in the double stirrups , binding her hands and feet .
29	He fixed her in a maddened stare and she saw the blood running from his gashed hand .
30	I was the new boy at the office , he the old hand wondering what to make of me ; but if he was having second thoughts he dismissed them in a sudden grin .