Example sentences of "[verb] him in [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , now , we place him in the pantheon of Afro-Asian leaders who decisively influenced the course of events it is because he was a survivor , to whom the drama of revolutionary struggle was an end in itself . |
| 2 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |
| 3 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 4 | It is his letter of March 1094 to the bishop of Salisbury , instructing him in the name of himself and the king to take action about the case of the daughter of the king of Scotland , who had left the nunnery at Wilton and who — as Anselm and King William had agreed — was to be forced to return . |
| 5 | When Craft and Stravinsky visited him in the autumn of this year , Craft has recorded how he looked " younger and livelier " than he had before , but that he seemed " to think of himself as a hoary ancient with little time left . |
| 6 | In 1981 , when Johnstone was still part of the furniture at Ibrox , Bill McMurdo and a local architect Bob Waugh involved him in the launch of Box Office Promotions ( UK ) Ltd a sports and leisure company which aimed to profit from Johnstone 's popularity in the Lanarkshire area . |
| 7 | A cops and robbers chase through the docks with our official mini caught him in the act of phoning home , where we arrived just in time to stop his wife disposing of a large bag of goodies . |
| 8 | Julie swung the hammer with all her strength and caught him in the mouth with its gleaming head . |
| 9 | Maud caught him in the doorway of his hotel one evening . |
| 10 | They grab him in a bearhug from behind . |
| 11 | Fat chance , thought Leonora , unable to resist keeping him in the dark about whether Elise was going with her . |
| 12 | He found him in a couple of minutes , before he had properly left the house . |
| 13 | In fact , he found him in a state of positive animation , in conversation with Chatterton about the dangers of travelling by public transport . |
| 14 | Producer Ken Hyman went in search for him and found him in a bar in Belgravia ‘ as drunk as a skunk ’ . |
| 15 | He found him in a comer of the hall , already half-drunk . |
| 16 | A policeman found him in the river near Waterloo station . |
| 17 | Easter Day 1945 found him in the darkness of a cattle truck in a German railway tunnel ; there was a true resurrection moment when prisoners were allowed out in to the sunshine and flowers of the railway cutting . |
| 18 | The 18th found him in the custody of two Maidenhead cavalry officers who took him back to Reading . |
| 19 | Dreams , I 'll catch him in the net of my dreams . |
| 20 | Unfortunately he phoned him in the middle of the night . |
| 21 | Corsie 's semi-final opponent tomorrow will be Gary Smith who beat him in the final of the UK Championship five years ago . |
| 22 | Corsie 's semi-final opponent tomorrow will be Gary Smith who beat him in the final of the UK Championship five years ago . |
| 23 | The visitor of the last stanza comes ‘ more violent , more profound , / One soul , disdainful or disdained , ’ and in the condition of the year-spirit or , ‘ his shadowed beauty stained / The colour of the withered year ’ , to go to a death which places him in the position of savage sacrifice and , for he is surely related to the saints of Eliot 's other early poems , martyr ‘ Self-immolating on the Mound ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He had desired to go to his homesite just once , not because he expected his parents to greet him with pleasure — he knew they would long ago have forgotten him in the act of rearing many other young even if they were still alive — but because it was there he had first been caught . |
| 26 | I 'd like to punch him in the face for his insolence . |
| 27 | Examine a scene from the play where one boy creeps up on another and then springs on him stabbing him in the back with his knife . |
| 28 | MARJORIE woke him in the middle of the night . |
| 29 | I had quite forgotten that Mrs Bailes occasionally tethered him in the kennel at the entrance to discourage unwelcome visitors , and as I half lay against the wall , the blood thundering in my ears , I looked dully at the long coil of chain on the cobbles . |
| 30 | He inspired the Prince , worked alongside him , coached him in the ways of business , schooled him in the art of responsible land management , encouraged him to try out new ideas , and helped turn the Duchy from a non-profit making concern into one that five years later had made net profits of £1.46 million . |