Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lowered himself in the saddle , then turned , looking back at her . |
| 2 | He kept two in the house , one equipped with a bell so that he could ring should he want anything in the grave ! |
| 3 | When I left in December 1928 he succeeded me in the house as Captain of Games . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | George knelt on gravel , and taking the knife more firmly in his hand he stabbed her in the stomach . |
| 6 | Mr Denny said : ‘ He then told her to put her clothes back on but out of the blue he stabbed her in the neck . |
| 7 | His vital interest was exploring the countryside with his school friend Arthur Hardy , as he records it in A Sportsman 's Tale : ‘ We had spent the best ten years of life together and after that saw one another about twice a year … |
| 8 | He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing . |
| 9 | He collared her in the staff-room at eleven-thirty . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | As he stowed everything in the boot , Ashley noticed dark smudges beneath his eyes . |
| 12 | During the second number , he draped himself in the Union Jack , presumably in an attempt to endear himself to the bulldog breed . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | He sold it in no time — at the price he originally wanted . |
| 15 | ‘ Donald is desperately ill ! ’ was the first thing she said , as he met her in the hall . |
| 16 | He met her in the doorway . |
| 17 | When he met him in the office , or on the stairs , his habitually offensive glance seemed to have a new dimension of thoughtfulness . |
| 18 | He met us in the hacienda courtyard dressed in white shirt , white jodhpurs and black riding boots . |
| 19 | He might not volunteer information , but is he is asked , he supplies it in a flawlessly polite manner . |
| 20 | He restoreth my soul : he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name 's sake . |
| 21 | He asked me in a very slow and serious voice , looking at me with solemn eyes . |
| 22 | Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated . |
| 23 | And he asked us in a group to suggest some things that we might think of as being important . |
| 24 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | I mean , he sell anything in the clothes line , anything . |
| 27 | There he walked and fished and took photographs which later , when he found time , he processed himself in a friend 's dark-room . |
| 28 | He flung himself in a chair and closed his eyes , giving way to sleep . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He seated himself in a chair and Emily paused for a moment , she could hardly ask the maid to bring the girl into the drawing-room where Spencer would be listening to every word . |