Example sentences of "[vb pp] him in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It also faced him with the need to untangle a financial crisis , a task that has frequently occupied him in his career . |
| 5 | But for some reason , Tina had adopted him in her rough , kindly way , and for the last few months school life had been bearable . |
| 6 | We were told that a recurrent illness had made him in his earlier days an abrasive and difficult colleague but when we knew him , the right pill had been found and the former angrily flashing eye and rasping voice of which people spoke had mellowed to a genial twinkle and an infectious chuckle . |
| 7 | Frankie dressed himself , and he looked smarter than I had ever seen him in his check suit , waistcoat and matching cap . |
| 8 | Anyway , she 's seen him in his true colours now , she sniffs , and she 's lost interest in him completely . |
| 9 | I had always admired him , ever since as a small boy I had seen him in his State robes in India . |
| 10 | I even know , thanks to Montesquieu , that one may be a Persian , but as for Man , I declare that I have never met him in my life ; if he exists it is without my knowledge.1 |
| 11 | But more importantly she had buried him in her heart . |
| 12 | Because Vitor had thanked him in his own language , the waiter took them both to be fellow compatriots and proceeded to chatter away in Portuguese , remarking on the sunny weather , suggesting choices of food and wine , complimenting them on Thomas 's cuteness and good behaviour . |
| 13 | Preston would have preferred him in his cloth cap with the old woolly cardigan he used to wear , or the long grey mac . |
| 14 | I 'd told him in his office it would do no good , but he insisted . |
| 15 | Afterwards Neil Cochrane thought that he should have struck Havvie down then , but shock at learning who McAllister really was had him in its grip , and he let the shameful accusation go by . |
| 16 | He 'd organised this expedition to Westminster to present the Prime Minister with his trusty iceaxe , which had helped him in his arctic endeaveours . |
| 17 | He 'd organised this expedition to Westminster to present the Prime Minister with his trusty iceaxe , which had helped him in his arctic endeaveours . |
| 18 | Buffy the pug was dead long ago ; between them the family had replaced him in her affections . |
| 19 | Tech-Green had mourned his passing with hysterical fervour ; no one had replaced him in their pantheon . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was because she 'd already seen countless admiring female eyes slide in his direction ; even though they apparently had n't recognised him in his goggles and ski-hat , still they were drawn by the sheer animal magnetism of the man . |
| 21 | SHe 'd found him in his workroom , staring moodily at the monitor screen . |
| 22 | His eye had regained its clarity , and his head its proud poise , as in the days when Norbury had accompanied him in his Prussian crusade with the Teutonic knights , long ago . |
| 23 | Madame had you see known him in his alcoholic days , when indeed such calm must often have been the prelude to him lurching into an argument , or falling heavily from his stool . |
| 24 | Though relieved , and fiercely delighted that she had apparently stopped him in his tracks , Polly was apprehensive about going back up on deck . |
| 25 | Wang Sau-leyan was sitting in the far corner of the room , turning the gift the Ping Tiao had given him in his hands , studying it . |
| 26 | Fonda read aloud a page of words to her and though his wife had never joined him in his LSD excursions , and marijuana made her sick , she understood from her husband 's descriptions of expanded-mind experiences and images the intensity of his feelings . |
| 27 | He had grieved over the dead woman , and Sally-Anne had put her work-reddened finger on something which had frequently troubled him in his slum practice . |
| 28 | While is possible that Ryde have signed him in his other capacity as Saviour of the World , the official reason is that regular ‘ keeper Ian Lloyd is having trials with York City . |
| 29 | Even if he has refused to be a market counterparty in relation to some investments , he can still be a market counterparty in relation to other qualifying investments ; and ( 3 ) The firm has warned him in its notice that he will not have the benefit of protections afforded to customers . |
| 30 | He faces the prospect of retirement with the same level-headed commonsense approach with which he has tackled most of the issues that have confronted him in his long career . |