Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] him in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told . |
| 2 | Oh fine , yet Jo was just saying on the phone there that she 'd seen him in a catalogue . |
| 3 | Lucy reckoned that , for the man in charge , he had some staggeringly dull tasks to handle ; she 'd seen him in the stockroom once , counting every bottle in every crate of tonic water . |
| 4 | Almost inaudible in the crush , he thanked everyone who 'd helped him in the case . |
| 5 | He could n't help wondering if he 'd interrupted him in the act of copulation . |
| 6 | We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime . |
| 7 | They 'd kept him in a kiosk on Brighton front day and night waiting for the Germans to invade . |
| 8 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 9 | And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step , and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch . |
| 10 | He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning . |
| 11 | When Sophie had joined him in a waltz … |
| 12 | The young paratrooper turned to look at me , his eyes alarmed , as if he expected somehow to see that his buddies had caught him in a moment of vulnerability . |
| 13 | As the hangers-on increased , he became bitterly aware that his inheritance , far from liberating him , had trapped him in a role he could not forsake . |
| 14 | Society and its rules had trapped him in a corner . |
| 15 | She had met him in the Coupole the night before when she was sitting with her friends from the atelier , and he 'd known one of them and come over . |
| 16 | She had met him in the street . |
| 17 | Gordon Jackson , QC , defending , said that the accused had not plunged the knife directly into Mr Kerr nine times , but had stabbed him in the course of the struggle . |
| 18 | Perhaps the mad fuckers had hung him in an abattoir . |
| 19 | Four weeks later she had seen him in the cinema queue with another girl , and had perceived that her day was over ; in between , she had known disorientation and obsession , diagnosed her trouble , and felt exhilarated . |
| 20 | People had seen him in the park . |
| 21 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 22 | She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom . |
| 23 | He had seen him in the city . |
| 24 | Ukraine 's national poet voiced the robust verdict of an unforgiving nation : ‘ If only mother Ukraine had strangled him in the cradle . ’ |
| 25 | Ever since she had saved him in the snowstorm , George had been uncomfortably aware of her presence . |
| 26 | They had missed him in the garden , but now if he was truly a son of Adam he would die . |
| 27 | She had quite literally thrown herself at him , she had bitten him in the neck so hard that he had bled , she had scratched his face and torn his clothes . |
| 28 | The splash of the water against the wheel and the splatter of it across the windscreen recalled to Harry 's mind the sound of falling water that had drawn him in a dream up the stairs of the Villa ton Navarkhon : a dream of statues made flesh , of messages concealed in images , of meetings both expected and located , amounting to what all logic suggests they can not be : rendezvous to which one has already unconsciously agreed . |
| 29 | As the York writer noted , the king did not love Anselm after he had thwarted him in the matter of investitures . |
| 30 | What I ever did to annoy Old Saul , whether it was the heat that made him especially cantankerous , whether Agnes really had kicked him in the head when she arrived , as Mrs Clamp says-none of this do I know . |