Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] 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 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Afterwards , Bowe dismissed Lewis , who beat him in the 1988 Olympic final , as ‘ a big , ugly bum ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I heard that , ’ she told him in the same language . |
| 13 | Those who knew him in the early 1970s in Florida remember a young man who beat balls at night after working a day job . |
| 14 | One who knew him in the Bandung period , Takdir Alisjahbana , recalls : ‘ A fascinating personality … few [ were ] able to resist his charm . |
| 15 | You saw him in the early thirties ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | With a shrill yelp she nipped him in the hind leg and he shot away in alarm . |
| 18 | She sat him in the biggest chair , the one he always hid behind , and looked deep into his eyes . |
| 19 | You will remember that we met him in the last commercial . |
| 20 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |