Example sentences of "him in [pos pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Leora personified the courage : I remember her trying to calm her screaming autistic son , taking him in her arms , rocking him , comforting him , until at last he became tranquil and quiet and she was left with his violence in her . |
| 2 | Georgina took him in her arms and kissed him on the lips . |
| 3 | Of Man , whose mother stands Him in her arm . |
| 4 | When Ishmael is old enough to marry , Hagar not surprisingly finds a wife for him in her own country of Egypt . |
| 5 | Heseltine brushed aside attacks on his ‘ socialist ’ policies by pointing out that this had not prevented the Prime Minister from including him in her Cabinet . |
| 6 | She looked up at him ; really looked , to see him , not the picture of him in her mind . |
| 7 | Strange how warm she felt with him in her arms . |
| 8 | Kelly had expected that Jack Butler would live up to the image she had painted of him in her mind . |
| 9 | But for some reason , Tina had adopted him in her rough , kindly way , and for the last few months school life had been bearable . |
| 10 | ‘ Count on us , ’ Tina reassured him in her rough , warm way . |
| 11 | But she twisted round and took him in her dusty hands , he felt the blood pump past her fingers . |
| 12 | She bent down and took him in her arms . |
| 13 | Each night she wrote glowing tributes to him in her diary but love had turned to hate by August and diary entries showed she had decided to kill the object of her former devotion — and his manager . |
| 14 | Buffy the pug was dead long ago ; between them the family had replaced him in her affections . |
| 15 | She was immediately businesslike and succeeded in putting some suggestions to him in her crisp English way , which banished from her mind again any other thoughts . |
| 16 | But more importantly she had buried him in her heart . |
| 17 | About five that afternoon Miss Prescott arrived with him in her car . |
| 18 | THE FIANCEE of murdered British tourist Keith Thompson cradled him in her arms as he lay dying and kept saying : ‘ I love you , Keith , please breathe , ’ it was revealed last night . |
| 19 | Even here , she seemed to tell him in her silence , there could be some small love for another sufferer , for a baby . |
| 20 | The solution was to let her initiate everything , to allow her to come towards him in her own time . |
| 21 | She had written to him while he was in prison but had received no reply , but then she had excused him in her own mind , telling herself he would be free soon , then he would come home to her and make her his bride . |
| 22 | She certainly had a special place for him in her heart . ’ |
| 23 | She would tell him in her own tune . |
| 24 | When Martin returned with the bottle , Mrs Denham picked the baby out of his chair , and settled back with him in her arms . |
| 25 | She left him in front of a café and as she drove away to follow the complex instructions back to the raccordo she saw him in her mirror , standing with his hand still raised in the sort of military salute with which he 'd taken his leave of her . |
| 26 | She held him in her throat , and grabbed the root of his shaft with both hands so he was unable to withdraw . |
| 27 | Melanie tried to reconstruct his return , Aunt Margaret making tea , he asking after the newcomers and she telling him in her own way . |
| 28 | She could not link him in her mind with her mother at all , though the two of them had once shared a mother themselves . |
| 29 | He put his hands on her shoulders now , forcing her to take him in her mouth , her whole body shuddering beneath his touch , a soft moaning in her throat . |
| 30 | ‘ I knew he would come back , ’ said the old lady , holding him in her arms . |