Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] him in [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ( Paradoxically the release of tension enabled him in the next week to run up , turn out , patch together , a poetical melodrama about Cabestainh with which the house-guests had some civilised fun . )
2 The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge 's .
3 ( Zhores Medvedev 's attempts to spell out the injury thus caused to scientific-technical advance landed him in a mental hospital . )
4 As his face came close to Edward 's , his breath hit him in a shocking wave .
5 One round hit him in the right shoulder , at the rear .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 BEFORE Germany 's press caught him in a questionable stockmarket deal , Franz Steinkühler looked like a working-class hero .
9 That weekend found him in a sunny mood .
10 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 .
11 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 .
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