Example sentences of "[verb] him in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you had a chance to meet him in his house with his guests , he was a most charming and intelligent man . |
| 2 | Of Man , whose mother stands Him in her arm . |
| 3 | Anthony Honoré , retiring Oxford Regius Professor of Civil Law , had just been canvassed by the appointments secretary when I visited him in his panelled rooms at All Souls . |
| 4 | I was so affected by his discovery that I pursued his future career with the Museum Service and later visited him in his cardboard box . |
| 5 | After Mary de Rachewiltz , Ezra Pound 's daughter , visited him in his gloomy study in Carlyle Mansions she wrote , " I had met a great man , and Loneliness " and one friend has remarked that " I knew he was intensely — even wretchedly — lonely " . |
| 6 | Dr Neil , cradling him in his arms for a moment before handing him to McAllister to care for , wondered not for the first time on such occasions whether he had done the baby a favour by enabling him to live . |
| 7 | He seemed far away from Ruth , in a trance whose nature she could only guess at — but free , she thought , of the despair and anger that beset him in their own world . |
| 8 | So , of course , he got up , I went to close the door he was there so I tried him in his pushchair , I says well you 'll have to walk , I know it 's only five minutes away . |
| 9 | Two years later he bought my mother a new car and at just the same time I caught him in his office with his secretary . ’ |
| 10 | Yet still Jacob has him in his grip , and the mysterious assailant begs him to let him go ‘ for the day is breaking ’ . |
| 11 | THE FIANCEE of murdered British tourist Keith Thompson cradled him in her arms as he lay dying and kept saying : ‘ I love you , Keith , please breathe , ’ it was revealed last night . |
| 12 | She cradled him in her arms . |
| 13 | The last moments of Johnathan Ball , the three-year-old victim of the bombing , were described yesterday by a nurse who cradled him in her arms as he died . |
| 14 | In the early 1930s , from his city desk at Faber and Faber , Eliot was busy paying tribute to other cities which had educated him in his way of life and to city writers who had aided his way of writing . |
| 15 | She found him in her office eating sandwiches and downing the last of his coffee . |
| 16 | I found him in his trench enjoying a mug of tea and in deep conversation with a Commando friend of his . |
| 17 | She found him in his kitchen , immersed in the newspaper spread out before him on the table . |
| 18 | Peter found him in his basket canoodling with his other half . |
| 19 | ‘ You found him in his office at shortly after six this morning ? ’ |
| 20 | She found him in his office . |
| 21 | She found him in his office . |
| 22 | She had written to him while he was in prison but had received no reply , but then she had excused him in her own mind , telling herself he would be free soon , then he would come home to her and make her his bride . |
| 23 | His thoughts were running north and west , up into Lochaber , the oakwoods and pinewoods at the foot of Loch Arkaig which had cradled him in his boyhood . |
| 24 | Werner never met W. E. Taylor [ q.v. ] , whose obituary she wrote ; while not rivalling his mastery of Swahili , she excelled him in her wide command of Bantu languages . |
| 25 | It was the interest of his parents which sustained him in his early school career . |
| 26 | If she makes sure she is looking good , feeling good , working well , she has a better chance of taking a cool look at him from a distance and deciding if she really wants him in her life . |
| 27 | Beck had a miserable round in The Players Championship last week but he confessed it helped him in his charging 65 , one off the course record . |
| 28 | Despite financial difficulties , however , Hahnemann displayed such intellectual ability that his teachers helped him in his studies and allowed him to finance his education by tutoring the younger children in the school . |
| 29 | Paradoxically , what had been half-revealed by the Boston Bowl helped him in his exchange . |
| 30 | His father was a tailor and for some years the young Steen helped him in his business . |