Example sentences of "him in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 2 | Come on , now — ’ He had no need to say more because Cameron had risen to his feet in the greying light and a song was coming from him in a steady flow of sound and a hard gravelly voice that resonated like a pipe . |
| 3 | The word is used by him in a somewhat extenuated sense ; not the classical definition of a sacred narrative-cum-worldview of Levi-Strauss and the anthropologists , but the more ordinary sense of metaphor , image or symbol , ‘ rites ’ even , and especially ‘ mythologies within mythology ’ as Milton Wilson perceived . |
| 4 | We find him in a disgusting attitude of respect towards predecessors whose intellect is vastly inferior to his own . |
| 5 | I first saw him in a supporting role at the Croydon Rep in 1936 , where another young actor , seven years his junior , by the name of William Devlin , who dared to tackle King Lear at about the same time . |
| 6 | IT WAS once said of Peter Shilton , by a frustrated forward who had failed to beat him in a one-on-one situation , that ‘ he just spreads his arms and fills up the whole bloody goal ’ . |
| 7 | Later he spoke about references to him in a popular Sunday tabloid , scowling at the implication that his approach is essentially haphazard . |
| 8 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
| 9 | Told by high authority that no one could understand him in a pulpit , he worried about sermons more than anything . |
| 10 | He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema . |
| 11 | The cover of Bryan Ferry 's second solo album — with him in a white tuxedo by a swimming pool — really sealed it . |
| 12 | He gave the union leaders the opportunity to tell him in a forthright manner where they thought he was going wrong with his policies and he in turn did some pretty plain talking about what he saw as their shortcomings . |
| 13 | Does a man do murder because a mate of his riles him in a pub or because he 's got more money than he has ? ’ |
| 14 | The drama of the moment was recaptured in Perelandra , the second in the science-fiction trilogy , where Ransom remembers the strength which was given to him in a moment requiring supreme moral courage . |
| 15 | You do n't want to put him in a corner and have him as an enemy . |
| 16 | His mother , a crushed figure in black , sat beside him in a pew . |
| 17 | This , remember , was said only a few months after Battiston of France suffered a serious neck injury when Schumacher , the West German goalkeeper , brutally bodychecked him in a World Cup semi-final . |
| 18 | ‘ We would expect to see him in a couple of warm-up fights , certainly someone in the top 10 , before he fights Mike Tyson again , if that is to happen , ’ said Morris . |
| 19 | His post as chief executive more or less folded up under him in a wholesale shake-up of staff . |
| 20 | Samuel Beckett We want him in a nice jail where we can keep an eye on him . |
| 21 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 22 | Gerald Baker , a Mandan-Hidatsa Indian who is the park ranger at Fort Union Trading Post in North Dakota , once the ‘ Times Square of the plains ’ , taught Mr Frazier how to use a double-bladed throwing axe and offered him the honour of joining him in a ceremonial sweat bath . |
| 23 | The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge 's . |
| 24 | Edward acknowledges her effect on him in a letter — one of numerous happy , affectionate letters to ‘ My dearest Friend ’ — from his lodgings at 113 Cowley Road , Oxford , 29 January 1898 ( the third of his letters to her after his return to Oxford for the Lent Term ) : Take care of yourself my dearest friend . |
| 25 | The young paratrooper turned to look at me , his eyes alarmed , as if he expected somehow to see that his buddies had caught him in a moment of vulnerability . |
| 26 | He had hoped to make her apologize humbly and promise never to use him in a story again . |
| 27 | They loved to ‘ baby ’ him in a way they could never do with me . |
| 28 | Yes , I could see by the way she grumbled about Wilson that she loved him and , although he was over eighty at the time , still saw him in a romantic light . |
| 29 | ‘ Then he called him in a loud voice , and said to me , ‘ I think John Bunyan must be deaf . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll clip his ear for him in a minute . |