Example sentences of "[prep] him in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth had lost all sense of direction as soon as he had gripped her hand so fiercely ; she just teetered after him in her high-heeled sandals . |
| 2 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 3 | He was very frightened of the spirits and they ran after him in his dreams . |
| 4 | She sat opposite him in his office with the door firmly closed . |
| 5 | The solution was to let her initiate everything , to allow her to come towards him in her own time . |
| 6 | She looked up at him ; really looked , to see him , not the picture of him in her mind . |
| 7 | Kelly had expected that Jack Butler would live up to the image she had painted of him in her mind . |
| 8 | This revolving of him in her mind led invariably to the same end , the same fear , that he would go away from Hilderbridge without her seeing him and then she would never see him again . |
| 9 | She kept sight of him in her mirror — hands in pockets , bedraggled — until she turned the corner , hoping that image would be the last she would ever have of him . |
| 10 | Somewhere in the hills perhaps another Jenny walked with the beasts , no memory of him in her head . |
| 11 | She saw his face in everyone , went to sleep with thoughts of him in her mind , dreamed of him and awoke with tears on her cheeks . |
| 12 | And the scent of him in her nostrils was dark and heady . |
| 13 | A face that was poignantly familiar , as if she 'd always carried a picture of him in her heart . |
| 14 | This trio was written early in 1845 , just over two years before his death at the age of 38 ; and it is characteristic of him in its formal subtlety within apparently classical outlines , and in its skilful reconciliation of baroque with romantic . |
| 15 | You did not choose me , I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit , the kind of fruit that endures and the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name . |
| 16 | Hold that description of him in your mind for a moment . |
| 17 | Nigel was fond enough of him in his way , but he did n't want him coming home too soon . |
| 18 | When police showed staff at Tesco 's a security video of the con-man , the girl told them : ‘ I 've got a photo of him in his Union Jack underpants . ’ |
| 19 | The magazine had first taken note of him in his Student whizz-kid incarnation , when Branson had appeared in a BBC documentary entitled Men of the Future . |
| 20 | It was in this connection that Sir John Ross [ q.v. ] speaks of him in his Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez ( vol ii , 1838 , p. 72 ) : ‘ Captain , afterwards Admiral , William Mitchell , an officer who had risen to the rank of rear-admiral by his good conduct , after having been flogged round the fleet for desertion . ’ |
| 21 | He learned English in order to deliver the lectures expected of him in his new post . |
| 22 | Alec wore a navy-blue romper suit — the outfit of a French workman , or indeed that of some little new-wave narcissist at a C. L. & S. screening It was the sight of him in his issued clothing that made me sense just how far he had fallen . |
| 23 | ‘ Why , it 's Rincewind the wizard , is n't it ? ’ he said in tones of delight , meanwhile filing the wizard 's description of him in his memory for leisurely vengeance . |
| 24 | Again , it is said pejoratively of him in his native land that , where Morris is the kind of natural breaker who ties in an enemy back row , Jones ‘ breaks at 3:20pm ’ . |
| 25 | Before he could close it the crowd swarmed past him in their hundreds and set off towards the castle at a trot . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've got one or two like him in our local , ’ he said to her with a grin . |
| 27 | I only wish there had been more like him in my life . ’ |
| 28 | For the power of Christ 's resurrection , as he puts it elsewhere , is available only to those who are willing ‘ to share his sufferings and become like him in his death ’ ( Phil 3:10 ) . |
| 29 | Everyone who raced against him in his good years says roughly the same thing : as a driver , Emerson was enormously consistent , not especially aggressive , very thoughtful and possessed of an excellent racing technique , the source of which was undoubtedly a long apprenticeship spent in motor-cycle racing , karting , Formula Vee , in Renault Gordinis , sports-car racing and so on . |
| 30 | Benjamin got up , kicking over the stool behind him in his excitement . |