Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had sent her , with Ned and the barmaids and Heaven knew how many others watching , to wait for him in his bed . |
| 2 | Before kiln operator Steve Kelly died at 55 , he asked for help to be given to the team of Macmillan nurses who cared for him in his last months . |
| 3 | Now he laid about him in his denunciations of England 's political leaders and institutions . |
| 4 | He learned English in order to deliver the lectures expected of him in his new post . |
| 5 | The solution was to let her initiate everything , to allow her to come towards him in her own time . |
| 6 | His great-nephew described how when at home on Sundays the Bishop would have twelve poor men and women to dine with him in his hall , ‘ always endeavouring while he fed their bodies to comfort their spirits by some cheerful discourse , generally mixt with some useful instruction . |
| 7 | When Duval was arrested in London , high society queued to commiserate with him in his cell . |
| 8 | She saw more of England driving with him in his car , or walking through cities while he attended to business , then she ever had before . |
| 9 | I used to work with him in my mother 's shop — he worked there for twenty-five years , until he died a few years ago . |
| 10 | He let her go , then stood there , watching her move about the room , disturbed by the thoughts , the memories that insisted on returning to him in her presence . |
| 11 | Sturt was about to proceed upon a new expedition into the interior of Australia I beg to send for your perusal a Letter I have lately received from him and from which you will perceive that he has written to Lord Stanley ; as I know no one better fitted for such a purpose than this enterprising and persevering Gentleman I do hope the Government may be disposed to second his views ; perhaps , your Lordship , could obtain and favour me with some information on the subject ; from the manner in which you referred to him in your Letter I am led to believe that some arrangement has already been made ; pray say if such be the case . |
| 12 | She stood to slip the dress down over her hips , and pouted at him in her petticoat . |
| 13 | You may have come across him in your investigation into Graham Mills ’ murder . |
| 14 | There is nothing inconsistent with the Income Tax Acts in recognising and respecting the distinction between property owned by a person as trustee and property owned by him in his own right … |
| 15 | He used to tell us with a sparkle of pride of enormous weights lifted by him in his youth , and of fights where he felled a man like a bullock . |
| 16 | Kelly had expected that Jack Butler would live up to the image she had painted of him in her mind . |
| 17 | ‘ And do you deny that for the two years prior to his death you 'd been living with him in his flat in London ? ’ |
| 18 | … crime and folly and error can be as severely lashed , as virtue and morality can be upheld , by a series of amusing causes and effects , that entice the reader to take a medicine , which , although rendered agreeable to the palate , still produces the same internal benefit as if it had been presented to him in its crude state , in which it would either be refused or nauseated . |
| 19 | Owen had written to him in his own hand , a fine and scholarly hand . |
| 20 | My father slept with an indelible pencil and paper by his bed because gags often came to him in his sleep and he 'd wake up laughing . |
| 21 | It had been taken by a pilot who was shocked out of his atheism and into the Church by what was revealed to him in his darkroom . |
| 22 | ( d ) This is the same ground as that which entitles a sheriff to allow an appeal made to him in his administrative capacity . |
| 23 | When two or more persons took as tenants in common , the share of each was treated as a separate item of property which could not only be transferred by him in his lifetime , but which would pass on his death to his representatives . |
| 24 | The court must take into consideration the nature of the testator 's property , the pecuniary position of the dependant , his or her conduct to the testator , and any other relevant circumstance , and the testator 's reasons for the dispositions made by him in his will . |
| 25 | ‘ I wondered if you also acted for him in his private affairs ? ’ |
| 26 | All the same it was Dr Kate Ash who was waiting for him in her small flat , dressed in one of her smart business suits , two matching cases ready by her side . |
| 27 | He lived for his reunion with Elizabeth ; all that sustained him until then was the daily letter from his new wife waiting for him in his lodgings . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 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 | Ever since I ran away from Thornfield , Mr Rochester had remained in my thoughts , and now , as I stood at my cottage door that first evening , looking at the quiet fields , I allowed myself to imagine again the life I could have had with him in his little white house in the south of France . |