Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] him in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps it was like one of those big animals Grimma had showed him in a book once . |
| 2 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 3 | Ukraine 's national poet voiced the robust verdict of an unforgiving nation : ‘ If only mother Ukraine had strangled him in the cradle . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps the mad fuckers had hung him in an abattoir . |
| 5 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 6 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 7 | When Pc Black had found him in the toilets he said he had temporarily removed his glasses to wipe them , and that a friend who was there had brought them to him at the police station . |
| 8 | Urban 's pro-French foreign policy during the Thirty Years War had left him in an exposed position when Richelieu joined forces with Protestant Sweden to thwart the restoration of Catholicism in Germany . |
| 9 | He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning . |
| 10 | The magazine had shown him in a ‘ compromising position ’ with Gypsy Granny . |
| 11 | Maidstone 's peculiar behaviour earlier that day , Franco 's strange tale about the pile of money Maidstone had showed him in the bar and now Maidstone 's death itself . |
| 12 | People had seen him in the park . |
| 13 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 14 | ‘ Our people have met him in the social life of the arts world . |
| 15 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |
| 16 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |
| 17 | But Mrs Thatcher has told him in the Commons the Government 's not to blame : |
| 18 | ‘ Francis has remembered him in a codicil to his Will drawn up in Nassau . |
| 19 | It was funny he should have remembered the row that week-end , when Patricia had left him in the cinema , and the per … pervert had touched his leg , because that was when all this had really started . |
| 20 | The angry look on the judge 's sallow face showed that either his attendance in court that morning or Cranston 's arrival had put him in an ill humour . |
| 21 | It was the way he 'd got out the time Barry had locked him in the tractor-shed . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When Sophie had joined him in a waltz … |
| 24 | George Birkitt was looking distinctly peeved , aware that Michael Banks had upstaged him in a way that was quite unanswerable . |
| 25 | Society and its rules had trapped him in a corner . |
| 26 | So a new ball Lewis This his third chance Stone has found him in the end . |
| 27 | He was shivering , and his teeth were chattering like Philip 's did when his Dad had kept him in the swimming bath too long . |
| 28 | By the time the lift had stopped at her floor , however , Fabia had left him in no doubt that she was not overjoyed by his nerve . |
| 29 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |