Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] him in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows . |
| 2 | I notice I refer to him in the past tense . |
| 3 | I worked with him in the theatre , through the good times and the bad times . |
| 4 | When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him . |
| 5 | But of course I think about him in a much different way as the years go by , and now I always smile when I think of him , because he made me laugh . |
| 6 | Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian : |
| 7 | During a lunch break I sat with him in a village pub where he put away a few pints . |
| 8 | I sat with him in the canteen before a programme and watched him eat his way steadily through eight Eccles cakes with a glass of milk . |
| 9 | I sat with him in the canteen before a programme and watched him eat his way steadily through eight Eccles cakes with a glass of milk . |
| 10 | He smoked all the time and at the end asked me to walk with him in the Park . |
| 11 | Or else she turns to him in the middle of dinner and asks : ‘ What 's happening about the Matterhorn , Howard ? |
| 12 | He dumped his kitbag and led her to an armchair , but she clung to him in a state of possessive disbelief which upset Charles even more than the deep depression he 'd been suffering from when he entered the flat . |
| 13 | He stopped by the gate and waited as she limped towards him in the darkness . |
| 14 | This fellow Simon , you read about him in a few verses earlier , he was a , he was a magician , a so , er a sorcerer , he was the , the wi the witch doctor if you like , if he was in i i in an African situation , there he was , he was the medicine man of the town , of the area and he too believed and was converted , he was baptized , and he was amazed at the miracles that he 'd seen being performed by Philip through the power of God . |
| 15 | She felt again the fear she had known when she walked into him in the dark passage . |
| 16 | She stiffened beside him in the darkness , absorbing the bitter truth . |
| 17 | She brushed by him in the dark , and her closeness , brought a sudden tingling which raised the short hairs on his skin for a moment ; then she was gone , and light from the hallway spilled into the room from the half-open door . |
| 18 | ‘ I know very little about her , although she worked for him in the war too . |
| 19 | Fen exploded as she scrambled over him in a tangle of arms , legs and dishevelled hair . |
| 20 | She was afraid that he would wake Peter if she talked to him in the hall . |
| 21 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
| 22 | She looked at him in a queer , incisive way he did not like at all . |
| 23 | She looked for him in the oven , the fridge , the wicker basket that held wastepaper beside her desk . |
| 24 | She slapped at him in the dark . |
| 25 | — Amadou has never seen a beautiful white starwoman like this , and she speaks to him in a soft low voice like the south breeze stirring in the palms , like it does just before the sun sets . |
| 26 | She smiled at him in a distantly friendly way . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course , it all rather depends , ’ she put to him in a wry tone , ‘ on the outcome of our visit to the police station . |
| 28 | ‘ And now you live with him in the country , ’ said Holmes . |
| 29 | She went scarlet , speechless with rage as she glared at him in the sunlit interior of the car , eyes burning over his hard profile and sexy black leather jacket . |
| 30 | But Emily 's great wish from childhood , confided to her small admirer David on his first visit , is to be a lady , and when her beauty and refinement attract David 's glamorous friend Steerforth , she elopes with him in the hope that he will bring her home a lady . |