Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] in the " 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 | He collared her in the staff-room at eleven-thirty . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | As he stowed everything in the boot , Ashley noticed dark smudges beneath his eyes . |
| 10 | During the second number , he draped himself in the Union Jack , presumably in an attempt to endear himself to the bulldog breed . |
| 11 | ‘ Donald is desperately ill ! ’ was the first thing she said , as he met her in the hall . |
| 12 | He met her in the doorway . |
| 13 | When he met him in the office , or on the stairs , his habitually offensive glance seemed to have a new dimension of thoughtfulness . |
| 14 | He met us in the hacienda courtyard dressed in white shirt , white jodhpurs and black riding boots . |
| 15 | He restoreth my soul : he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name 's sake . |
| 16 | I mean , he sell anything in the clothes line , anything . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When he had settled her , gently and with professional competence , he seated himself in the chair opposite . |
| 19 | Separating the tails of his jacket , he seated himself in the opposite chair , a frown creasing his forehead as he glanced about the room . |
| 20 | His eyes skimmed her face , his expression unreadable , as he seated himself in the armchair opposite her . |
| 21 | Then he was reaching for his own glass and inviting her to sit in one of the wicker armchairs overlooking the bay while he seated himself in the chair beside her . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Unfortunately he phoned him in the middle of the night . |
| 24 | He found her in the parlour , doing nothing , seated with her pale skirts spread about her . |
| 25 | Without doing much more he found himself in the Scotland ‘ B ’ team to play Ireland at the end of December and the Scottish trial a week later . |
| 26 | And he found himself in the starting line-up when top scorer Chris Kiwomya went down with flu . |
| 27 | The Zeltweg race was , after all , on Niki 's home territory , and when Prost spun off on a patch of oil , the race took on a new perspective for Niki : he found himself in the lead , with Piquet behind him and no threat with badly worn tyres . |
| 28 | The same year , he found himself in the company of Mona , who described herself in court as an ‘ apolitical pacifist ’ who spread her huge family wealth in a series of film , TV , stage and property ventures . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Gloucester 's influence may also have been at work in the selection of a duchy of Lancaster lawyer as the new recorder of London in June 1483 , although the man concerned ( Thomas Fitzwilliam of Mablethorpe , Lincs. ) preserved a studied neutrality when , only days after his appointment , he found himself in the middle of the deposition crisis . |