Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] him in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowds who flocked to listen to John 's preaching of repentance were baptised by him in the Jordan in penitent expectation of the age of fulfilment which he proclaimed . |
| 2 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 3 | And they were coming at him in a concerted three-pronged attack . |
| 4 | ‘ They were found with him in the pond . ’ |
| 5 | It will not do to paint Themistokles as Kimon 's opponent on the issue of foreign policy principles — that is , as a medising Sparta-hater — and thereby to seek to explain his ostracism in 471 : it is now certain that very many ostraka were cast against him in the early 480s when his patriotism was not in question . |
| 6 | We were standing around him in a ragged semi-circle in the gym at the end of our physical education period . |
| 7 | In late February his arrest was ordered as charges of rebellion with murder were filed against him in a Manila court . |
| 8 | Both firms were associated with him in the pioneering venture of issuing cheap reprint series of his works : the Cheap , Library , People 's , and Charles Dickens Editions . |
| 9 | Her hands were cupped before him in a stylised gesture which he recognised not as that of a beggar but of a supplicant , a penitent , someone reaching out for a blessing from God . |
| 10 | In 1875 a memorial was erected to him in the British Cemetery . |
| 11 | The drama of the moment was recaptured in Perelandra , the second in the science-fiction trilogy , where Ransom remembers the strength which was given to him in a moment requiring supreme moral courage . |
| 12 | ODDLY enough , although he was for almost 50 years a pillar of the British dance band scene , by his own account Joe Crossman 's only popular acclaim was given to him in the United States for his beautiful alto saxophone solo on Stanley Black 's mid-Forties recording of Django Reinhardt 's ballad ‘ Nuages ’ . |
| 13 | When Stephen returned the following day , the news was broken to him in the stable block by the groom who took his horse . |
| 14 | He accepted it when it was explained to him in the right way . |
| 15 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 16 | — He understood very little of what was said to him in the Outpatient Clinic and could not explain it to his wife . |
| 17 | His VC was presented to him in the Western Desert by Montgomery , and he returned to New Zealand in 1943 after active service in Greece , Crete and North Africa . |
| 18 | Will the Home Secretary acknowledge that fresh evidence was presented to him in the summer and that his review is long overdue ? |
| 19 | It was probably England 's good fortune that Inzamam was preferred to him in the four previous Tests . |
| 20 | When he arrived at work that morning the result of their labours was waiting for him in a blue folder . |
| 21 | The driver of the truck sent to meet Charles and his baggage at the railhead south of Arras , had told him that Lord Christopher — Charles did n't ask the surname — was waiting for him in the Officers ' Mess of 2nd Grenadiers . |
| 22 | The ice crown was waiting for him in the city , protected only by the ghosts . |
| 23 | She was waiting for him in the apartment . |
| 24 | Curtis , the local CID sergeant , was waiting for him in the police station . |
| 25 | Lewis Luther was there within five minutes , and I was waiting for him in the foyer by Purvis 's desk . |
| 26 | He was black and it was conveyed to him in a most unambiguous way that this would mean pressure for him , but it was the way in which he responded that challenged conventional images of black kids . |
| 27 | Come on , now — ’ He had no need to say more because Cameron had risen to his feet in the greying light and a song was coming from him in a steady flow of sound and a hard gravelly voice that resonated like a pipe . |
| 28 | She felt her knees begin to buckle , but his strength held her to him — taking her fevered body into his embrace , heaping fire on fire until she was crying for him in a voice unlike her own . |
| 29 | So , when an orphaned leopard cub was found after her mother had been killed for her skin , the infant was brought to him in the hope that he could rear it . |
| 30 | She shared none of his growing absorption in politics but was attuned to him in the world of magic . |