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

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1 The sculptor is encouraged to deepen the relief to make the figures stand out better ; and this in turn , making them more like statues , encourages him to treat them in the convention of free sculpture rather than that of drawing .
2 ‘ But why did you ask him to meet you in the garden instead of in the house ? ’
3 Examine a scene from the play where one boy creeps up on another and then springs on him stabbing him in the back with his knife .
4 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 .
5 She allowed him to corner her in the pantry .
6 She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him .
7 She had been surprised to find that he did n't feel it beneath him to help her in the house .
8 The most upsetting thing was that it made her realise just how much she had been allowing him to guide her in the decision , putting her desire to leave the nurses ' home and her pleasure at Dr Entwistle 's recommendation very much in second place .
9 Every time I 've asked him to do anything in the last three days , I ca n't , working out the quiz .
10 But this had never required him to put himself in the spotlight .
11 Jack of course er er I I know I 've known him know him in the United States , but er Jack jumped ship in Baltimore .
12 Give Durkin all the facts and let him publish them in the Eye-Witness . ’
13 So an important strategy for helping the learner is occasionally to list , at the end of the piece or work you are marking , all the errors the pupil has made , writing them correctly and clearly , and to ask him to study them in the way the Basic spelling strategy " B " suggests ( page 11 ) .
14 I do n't know when he , when he was looking for that old chap , I think one of the girls threw something at him hit him in the eye .
15 I gave him £1 … then watched him ask everyone in the station .
16 Miserably she allowed him to settle her in the taxi .
17 Well as he said well he did n't say but I mean it 's just a question of him putting them in the post .
18 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 . ’
19 I watched him put something in the captain 's hand .
20 I caught him watching me in the third .
21 Tell him to join us in the admiral 's cabin at once . ’
22 I was impressed , then I noticed him clocking her in the mirror behind the bar .
23 He lowered himself in the saddle , then turned , looking back at her .
24 He kept two in the house , one equipped with a bell so that he could ring should he want anything in the grave !
25 When I left in December 1928 he succeeded me in the house as Captain of Games .
26 Actually , thought Henry , as he checked himself in the mirror , no one , not even the police , would be stupid enough to imagine that Elinor could be the victim of a crime passionnel .
27 George knelt on gravel , and taking the knife more firmly in his hand he stabbed her in the stomach .
28 Mr Denny said : ‘ He then told her to put her clothes back on but out of the blue he stabbed her in the neck .
29 He collared her in the staff-room at eleven-thirty .
30 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 ?
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