Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 3 | I liked him in the Pink Panther . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought I had him in the second round be he wriggled off the hook . ’ |
| 5 | I wrapped him in the big blanket we 'd brought as he was already shivering . |
| 6 | ‘ I wanted him in the first place , ’ said Graham , ‘ but the management had already cast Cy Grant . |
| 7 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 8 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 9 | ‘ How much money have you given him in the last three weeks ? ’ |
| 10 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 11 | Wilson 's principal domestic fault was his kindness in bestowing benefits on friends , and indeed on anyone who approached him in the appropriate fashion , and certainly through Marcia Williams . |
| 12 | Afterwards , Bowe dismissed Lewis , who beat him in the 1988 Olympic final , as ‘ a big , ugly bum ’ . |
| 13 | Has she met him in the Three Pigeons ? |
| 14 | ‘ I heard that , ’ she told him in the same language . |
| 15 | Those who knew him in the early 1970s in Florida remember a young man who beat balls at night after working a day job . |
| 16 | One who knew him in the Bandung period , Takdir Alisjahbana , recalls : ‘ A fascinating personality … few [ were ] able to resist his charm . |
| 17 | You saw him in the early thirties ? |
| 18 | On the first day he announced his new sponsorship deal with Everest — a return to the firm who supported him in the 70's when he rode for the Edgar yard . |
| 19 | With a shrill yelp she nipped him in the hind leg and he shot away in alarm . |
| 20 | I would like to think you could perhaps mention to Peter if you see him in the next couple of days , I do n't know whether he pops into the office but we , it would be nice if you could if you could mention |
| 21 | She sat him in the biggest chair , the one he always hid behind , and looked deep into his eyes . |
| 22 | You will remember that we met him in the last commercial . |
| 23 | What Boy had to do now was not walk down those streets , but stand still and choose amongst their inhabitants , choose the right one to follow , the right one to lead him in the next stage of his journey or wandering through the city . |
| 24 | She would have to have a word with her father about this man and find out what on earth had inspired him to hire him in the first place . |
| 25 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 26 | Why , one wonders , did they fire him in the first place ? |
| 27 | They catch any gay guy with AZT , they throw him in the federal penitentiary like Jimmy fucking Cagney , and then they throw us out of the country . |
| 28 | But again the questions — was Boswell telling the truth about Johnson , or was he presenting him in the best possible light ? |
| 29 | Though he was later subtly dismissive of the assembly , he undoubtedly appreciated its value at the time , not least for the good publicity it gave him in the British and American press . |
| 30 | It does not take much to imagine the effect of this on a group of already dispirited players , all of whom held him in the warmest affection . |