Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] him in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vernon , 18 , hero of non-League Bath City 's FA Cup win over Cardiff , is on trial with Saints and manager Ian Branfoot wants to look at him in a reserve game . |
| 2 | Nobody has spoken to him in the way that you have , not for more than a year … |
| 3 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 4 | The smell of burnt powder seemed to hang around him in a cloud . |
| 5 | Mattox 's campaign presented her silence on this subject as an expression of guilt , although the drugs issue backfired on him in the final days of the campaign when witnesses claimed to have seen him smoking marijuana in the early 1970s , a claim which he vehemently denied . |
| 6 | Already suffering from physical ailment , and surrounded by some marvellous women who took it in turns to look after him in the evening of his life , he was a fount of ideas and vision . |
| 7 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 8 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
| 9 | One former colleague recalls working with him in the early 1970s : ‘ Then he was very much one of the new breed . |
| 10 | Pleas for understanding began to pour from him in a stream . |
| 11 | No-one could label him ‘ collaborator ’ , and a wide spectrum of the population began to look to him in the chaotic aftermath of the Japanese defeat . |
| 12 | I remember reading about him in the Standard . ’ |
| 13 | She began babbling at him in an attempt to diffuse his anger . |
| 14 | A hand began feeling at him in the places he might carry a gun , so Maxim said to Fraulein Winkelmann : ‘ It would be compli-cated if he shoots me . |
| 15 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 16 | He was retained by the king as one of his serjeants between 1287 and 1293 and is to be found acting for him in the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre and in the northern circuit eyres of 1292–3 as well as in the Common Bench and in the Exchequer . |
| 17 | I only came across the 1936 front page because it was hanging framed on the right-hand wall of old Pierre Gemayel 's office when I went to talk to him in the summer of 1982 in east Beirut . |
| 18 | In meditation I see that my fellow man is my friend and I try to think of him in the way Thoreau thought when he said , ‘ I knock on the earth for my friend . ’ |
| 19 | He 's still alive and yet I keep thinking of him in the past tense . |
| 20 | A man came home late from work one night to find his wife sitting waiting for him in the living room . |
| 21 | She said : ‘ I do work with him in the commercial world — but I have no involvement in his politics . ’ |
| 22 | Relatives of Keith Pringle allege police refused their pleas to be allowed to speak to him in a bid to end the siege peacefully . |
| 23 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
| 24 | Even though we had explained to him in a small business initially , he was going to be the salesman , he was going to be the marketing director , he was going to be everything . |
| 25 | Encouraged by Hamadan , Younis made much of the minor role Nabi Berri had assigned to him in the Air Jordanian incident and admitted he had helped guard the hostages after the TWA 747 hijack . |
| 26 | Kopyion had sat opposite him in the hovercar , contemplating the momentous events unravelling on the planet . |
| 27 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
| 28 | He was aware that it was trite , but the alternative was to express the scepticism that had grown inside him in the intervening days . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |