Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] him in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun came to him in a warm gust or like a warm veil enveloping him . |
| 2 | If it now came to him in a new way it was no doubt simply an aspect of his belongingness with Marcus and Irina . |
| 3 | It came to him in the small hours . |
| 4 | Conversely , if the accused can show that the material came to him in the normal course of business from a reputable supplier , he may have a defence . |
| 5 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 6 | A swarm of ghosts gyred around him in a multiple helix , allowed some measure of self-determination by his preoccupation , furtively snatching their existence from his body and his mind . |
| 7 | The Gallic chief , Commius , who had been a friend and ally of Caesar , turned against him in the great revolt of Vercingetorix after the Roman invasion of 55 and 54 BC . |
| 8 | Tina walked towards him in the rain-washed playground while Jack looked warily round for her brother . |
| 9 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 10 | She felt again the fear she had known when she walked into him in the dark passage . |
| 11 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
| 12 | Basha looked after him in the small village . |
| 13 | She looked at him in a queer , incisive way he did not like at all . |
| 14 | Maggie looked at him in a bemused way and he smiled to himself , leading her onwards . |
| 15 | Jenna turned and looked at him in a startled manner . |
| 16 | Morse looked around him in the front living room , slightly puzzled to find the carpet , the decoration , the furniture , all that little bit on the shabby side , with only the curtains looking bright and new , and ( in Morse 's opinion ) classy and tasteful . |
| 17 | His regiment 's chaplain spoke of him in the warmest terms as a man of the highest principles . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course , it all rather depends , ’ she put to him in a wry tone , ‘ on the outcome of our visit to the police station . |
| 19 | But Mr Chadwin said when police officers spoke to him in the early hours of the following morning when he was in the car with Miss Jeanette near Catterick Bridge they had not noticed any dramatic injuries . |
| 20 | Marion searched for him in the crowded room , and found him at last , talking to Sue 's dad near the window . |
| 21 | Gareth Morgan , his deputy and confidante , waited for him in the large office with windows overlooking the City . |
| 22 | His posting to Pembroke Dock , then commanded by Wg Cdr A. T. Harris , was a meeting of great minds and it is interesting to recall what Harris said about him in the early thirties , and later in the war years : " he was , and still is , the most efficient airman I have ever met " . |
| 23 | The words burst from him in an angry rush , and she glanced at him in surprise . |
| 24 | I sat him up , and said to him in a new voice that he was not to try and move without me . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think he 's on our wavelength , ’ his mother said to him in a choking voice . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Rincewind glared at him in the hellish purple glow . |
| 28 | Passionate with indignation at the poverty and injustices which he daily met around him in the industrial north of Bradford , he sought , and was able to gain from , J.P.M. 's National Council of Labour Colleges , that knowledge which served him so well throughout his short working life , as a weapon with which to fight and change the capitalist system which tolerated and perpetuated such inhumane living conditions . |
| 29 | She crossed the room and sat opposite him in the ratty old armchair . |