Example sentences of "him in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She stood about four feet away from him in her ungainly dressing gown . |
| 32 | She came and kissed him in her brisk way . |
| 33 | This revolving of him in her mind led invariably to the same end , the same fear , that he would go away from Hilderbridge without her seeing him and then she would never see him again . |
| 34 | He let her go , then stood there , watching her move about the room , disturbed by the thoughts , the memories that insisted on returning to him in her presence . |
| 35 | Then when it had grown enough God brought the baby out and the mother took him in her arms . |
| 36 | She rushed over to him , gathered him in her arms and held him to her . |
| 37 | She took to following him in her car , being willing to sit for hours outside his house waiting for him to come out and then trailing and following him until he came home again . |
| 38 | She kept sight of him in her mirror — hands in pockets , bedraggled — until she turned the corner , hoping that image would be the last she would ever have of him . |
| 39 | Werner never met W. E. Taylor [ q.v. ] , whose obituary she wrote ; while not rivalling his mastery of Swahili , she excelled him in her wide command of Bantu languages . |
| 40 | Thérèse imagined the housekeeper wiping the aspidistra with a soapy sponge , rinsing down the ivory Christ , loincloth and all , holding him in her arms like a baby with a wet nappy . |
| 41 | Somewhere in the hills perhaps another Jenny walked with the beasts , no memory of him in her head . |
| 42 | One was from the Arisleus Vision : ‘ With so much love did Beya embrace Gabricus that she entirely absorbed him in her own nature and dissolved him in inseparable atoms . ’ |
| 43 | Then she drew him up to her , and lowered her own head to take him in her mouth , her tongue darting out in tender forays at the base of his penis , stroking his belly with her hair as her teeth gently nibbled his manhood . |
| 44 | He had the worry and responsibility of his sister on his shoulders , and she wished she could take him in her arms and comfort him . |
| 45 | She steeled herself to touch him , taking the mask from his hand and placing it firmly on his face , looping the ribbon carefully over his ears and sweeping around him in her long skirts to tie it firmly . |
| 46 | ‘ What were you confessing ? ’ she asked , bold as brass , walking up to him in her everyday short skirt and torn black stockings , as if the terrible incident on the stairs had not happened at all . |
| 47 | She saw his face in everyone , went to sleep with thoughts of him in her mind , dreamed of him and awoke with tears on her cheeks . |
| 48 | All the same it was Dr Kate Ash who was waiting for him in her small flat , dressed in one of her smart business suits , two matching cases ready by her side . |
| 49 | ‘ He is the man who murdered my father and sister when he attacked Tracy Castle , who made my other sister 's life such a hell that she killed herself rather than endure it any longer , and who then would have forced me to wed him in her place . ’ |
| 50 | Suddenly , she wanted to hold him in her arms and feel his warmth against her . |
| 51 | She cradled him in her arms . |
| 52 | She stood to slip the dress down over her hips , and pouted at him in her petticoat . |
| 53 | Waking or sleeping his mind fretted away at the case , images drifted in and out of his consciousness , words and phrases came to mind in a confusing jumble but once , in a doze , it seemed that Beryl was actually speaking to him in her clear , cracked voice . |
| 54 | Sara took him in her newly-decorated classrooms upstairs with their modern office equipment — she was particularly proud of her electric typewriter — but David Fairfax was more interested in the photographs of her grandfather , driving his tandems and four-in-hands , on the landing walls . |
| 55 | She did not want him in her life . |
| 56 | And the scent of him in her nostrils was dark and heady . |
| 57 | It was her apartment , paid for with her own money , and she did n't need or want him in her life any more . |
| 58 | A face that was poignantly familiar , as if she 'd always carried a picture of him in her heart . |
| 59 | Ruth had lost all sense of direction as soon as he had gripped her hand so fiercely ; she just teetered after him in her high-heeled sandals . |
| 60 | Slightly put off by his failure to take any notice of her as she entered , her voice was hesitant as she greeted him in her best Spanish . |