Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something made for him in the darkness and struck him a violent blow just under the knee . |
| 2 | It is precisely such a person who can be brought lowest by the hateful things that may be reported about him in a court of law . |
| 3 | Never mind , I 'll wait for him in the car . ’ |
| 4 | He often went out alone , Italian style , and Jeanne would wait for him in the street after the cafés closed . |
| 5 | Yes , they have n't really looked after him in the field have they ? |
| 6 | The decision to place Gareth in the care of his grandparents , who have looked after him in the past while his mother was working , was taken by Strathclyde Regional Council 's social work department . |
| 7 | Kopyion had sat opposite him in the hovercar , contemplating the momentous events unravelling on the planet . |
| 8 | In this way , the organisation does its best to ensure that the employee is likely to be able to meet the requirements expected of him in the job abroad . |
| 9 | " Oh fucking hell , " Graham heard Mr Hunter says and then something huge squeezed past him in the darkness saying . |
| 10 | He nearly fell off his bench , groping behind him in the darkness , and heard the metal box clatter as it slipped past his fingers . |
| 11 | It has been said that the surety 's obligation is simply that of paying money and , of course , in a sense that is true if one looks only at the remedy which the landlord has against him in the event of default by the tenant . |
| 12 | Both parents were able to devote a great deal of time to their son , walking with him in the park or going for carriage drives , sometimes as far as La Malmaison , for which Napoleon III had a special affection because of its links with his mother and grandmother . |
| 13 | How could she get through an evening in his company when everything that was female in her responded to him in a way that knocked her totally off balance ? |
| 14 | Iron Josh beckoned him down , and Denis knelt beside him in the cart . |
| 15 | Everyone deferred to him in the casting of lots , and after he had tossed his white counter into the bowl which was placed in the centre of the chamber there was a wild scramble for precedence . |
| 16 | He stopped by the gate and waited as she limped towards him in the darkness . |
| 17 | That was when he saw the thin figure jogging towards him in the gloom , and heard the roar of engines come up fast behind him . |
| 18 | He had thought he had not cared what became of him in the battle and he had thought that , when it was over , he would return to the Wolfwood and that the creatures amongst whom he had lived would return , also . |
| 19 | It is conceivable , too , that the Sihtric dux who witnesses three of Cnut 's charters may be the Dublin monarch Sihtric Silkbeard , who used dies evidently made for him in the mint at Chester to strike pennies naming him king of the Irish and modelled on Cnut 's Quatrefoil type . |
| 20 | I told myself he might have meant us to meet at the Festival , so I went along there and searched for him in the crowd . ’ |
| 21 | From all that he heard , it was clear that Gaddafi 's position had been secured for him in a way that his palace guard and secret police could never have managed on their own . |
| 22 | Half way down the companion he stopped , and it was as though the whole length of the hold moved towards him in a body . |
| 23 | He seizes him and disposes of him in the river like the previous three bodies , and finally gets his pay , the wife being all the more glad for having got rid of her repugnant husband . |
| 24 | The speaker was short and stocky and that was all that could be said of him in the way of description . |
| 25 | In spite of the weaknesses in his attempted synthesis , the same can be said of him in the context of the theology of the last century and a half as of Sir Christopher Wren on his tomb in St Paul 's Cathedral , Si monumentum requiris , circumspice — ‘ If you would see his memorial , look around you . ’ |
| 26 | He held this position until May 1290 , when he was arrested and sent to the Tower and his lands seized , probably as the result of an allegation made against him in the course of the ‘ State Trials ’ . |
| 27 | Feeling defeated suddenly , she discovered that it was no good trying to recapture the fury she had felt with him in the hope of that fury helping her battle against the way she was feeling . |
| 28 | Pleas for understanding began to pour from him in a stream . |
| 29 | Will the Home Secretary acknowledge that fresh evidence was presented to him in the summer and that his review is long overdue ? |
| 30 | Yet when it came to negotiation , who would speak to him in the name of France ? |