Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] him in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late that evening , Corbett was found by a servant sent by Selkirk , who announced in broad Scots that the knight would be grateful if Corbett joined him in the outer bailey near the main gate . |
| 2 | Shamlou 's dark eyes held him in a contemptuous gaze . |
| 3 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
| 4 | The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge 's . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm normal now , ’ Maggie assured him in a fuzzy voice as he helped her to the bed and lifted her on to it . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've changed since last night , ’ Ruth told him in a soft murmur . |
| 7 | His grandson Robert succeeded him in a bare inheritance , due to provisions made in lands and goods for the children of the third marriage . |
| 8 | Harry received him in the large parlour , against whose windows a summer gale was hurling heavy drops of rain . |
| 9 | He died in May and the Seales buried him in a shallow grave in a park . |
| 10 | Command of the Army of Africa placed him in a decisive position once the initial impetus of the rising in peninsular Spain was lost . |
| 11 | ( Zhores Medvedev 's attempts to spell out the injury thus caused to scientific-technical advance landed him in a mental hospital . ) |
| 12 | As his face came close to Edward 's , his breath hit him in a shocking wave . |
| 13 | One round hit him in the right shoulder , at the rear . |
| 14 | Jarvis 's money brought him in a tiny income , on which it was just possible to subsist if he walked everywhere , never went to the cinema , ate anything nice , smoked , drank , bought new clothes nor used the phone . |
| 15 | Belinda met him in the front hall on his way to his sister 's room , and as expected he raised questioning eyebrows . |
| 16 | Two bullets hit him in the left arm , and numerous metal fragments flew into his face , including a piece in his jaw which could never be extracted . |
| 17 | Former Darlington defender Jim Willis put in a saving tackle on Steve Mardenborough when Nick Cusack found him in the clear , while Willis was caught in possession by Cusack inside his own box but the centre forward 's shot was blocked . |
| 18 | Former Darlington defender Jim Willis put in a saving tackle on Steve Mardenborough when Nick Cusack found him in the clear , while Willis was caught in possession by Cusack inside his own box but the centre forward 's shot was blocked . |
| 19 | Doherty 's opponent in today 's semi-final is Mike Hallett , a surprise 5–1 winner over Jimmy White , whose recent form deserted him in a lacklustre performance when he could compile only one break of more than 30 compared to four by Hallett . |
| 20 | Where , I gather , Dhani put him in a Buddhist monastery and nursed him back to health — he 'd known Dhani at school and Cambridge . |
| 21 | BEFORE Germany 's press caught him in a questionable stockmarket deal , Franz Steinkühler looked like a working-class hero . |
| 22 | That weekend found him in a sunny mood . |
| 23 | However he was so dirty from his ride that the Master of Ceremonies placed him in a distant corner , far from the Emperor , and at the end of the queue for food . |
| 24 | Mike Power and Clive Thornton pointed him in the right direction and sent him in like a terrier down a rabbit hole . |
| 25 | Robert Harris established his name many years ago as a designer of sound blue water cruising yachts , so it was no surprise when a couple tackled him in the late 1960s to design for them a small yacht that would take them from Canada to New Zealand in both comfort and safety . |
| 26 | Suddenly the events of the last few hours gripped him in a violent despairing spasm . |
| 27 | The sublime memory of that first descent into the moist , mossy darkness of the jungle earlier in the day blazed again suddenly in his mind 's eye for a moment , but then his numbness left him in a furious rush and a piercing surge of purity and sweetness flashed through the rank darkness of the hut . |