Example sentences of "[verb] him in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 2 | The mother says that it was not a wrongful removal and that , even if it was , she has a defence under article 13 in that there is a grave risk that the return of the child would expose him to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place him in an intolerable situation . |
| 3 | Samuel Beckett We want him in a nice jail where we can keep an eye on him . |
| 4 | I settled for the party in Fulham on Bunny 's recommendation , arranging to meet him in a trendy pub in Covent Garden beforehand . |
| 5 | The Office tells us that he arranged for his sister to meet him in a nearby wood and to bring with her two of her over-dresses , one white and one grey , and his father 's rainhood . |
| 6 | They were ranked to meet him in the misty rain , every soul from castle and clachan , fidgeting and nervous , and in front of them all Marion Aluinn , eager to break the tense silence , lovely in her excitement . |
| 7 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
| 8 | He set the bowl down , then lifted the boy gently , cradling him in a half-sitting position . |
| 9 | Dignam used to joke about how his priestly teacher , a devotee of the classical drama , invariably cast him in the leading roles of Shakespeare 's heroines , Portia , Juliet , and Ophelia among them . |
| 10 | On that occasion , Richard Dorment , a critic not noted for exaggeration , described him in The Daily Telegraph as the most inventive sculptor since Picasso , and this new exhibition promises to be one of the season 's notable achievements . |
| 11 | His political ideals included the concept of arbitration as a substitute for war in the settlement of national disputes , and involved him in the jingoistic disputes of 1877 . |
| 12 | BEFORE Germany 's press caught him in a questionable stockmarket deal , Franz Steinkühler looked like a working-class hero . |
| 13 | His first book , the collection of stories entitled Goodbye , Columbus , fixed him in the popular mind , from 1959 , as an ‘ enemy of the Jews ’ — a condition aggravated by the onanistic bravura and scandalous mad success of the grotesquely imaginative Portnoy 's Complaint ( 1969 ) , and not much improved in recent years by The Counterlife ( 1987 ) , in which various escapes from Jewish America , including an escape to Israel , are projected , and in which Zuckerman and his dentist brother Henry are both imagined to have ailing hearts and to undertake gruesome surgery in order to restore the sexual potency suspended by their medication . |
| 14 | She found him in a small single room that was obviously intended to be his dressing-room or study , furnished with a single bed , rows of built-in cupboards , and under the window a desk and chair . |
| 15 | That weekend found him in a sunny mood . |
| 16 | The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing . |
| 17 | Former Darlington defender Jim Willis put in a saving tackle on Steve Mardenborough when Nick Cusack found him in the clear , while Willis was caught in possession by Cusack inside his own box but the centre forward 's shot was blocked . |
| 18 | Former Darlington defender Jim Willis put in a saving tackle on Steve Mardenborough when Nick Cusack found him in the clear , while Willis was caught in possession by Cusack inside his own box but the centre forward 's shot was blocked . |
| 19 | I have got to try to outbowl him in the early matches because there is a good chance we may go into the Tests with only one spinner . |
| 20 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 21 | Unless it was true , as he 'd alleged , that the women had robbed him before tossing him in the stinking water . |
| 22 | Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me . |
| 23 | Wilson 's principal domestic fault was his kindness in bestowing benefits on friends , and indeed on anyone who approached him in the appropriate fashion , and certainly through Marcia Williams . |
| 24 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 25 | She wanted dearly to inform him in no uncertain terms that he was in no position to make personal remarks of any kind to her , but she had an uneasy suspicion that any further rebukes on that score would only somehow backfire on her . |
| 26 | The activities of a fan become intelligible if we can interpret them as being instrumental in establishing him in a particular role , or if such activities can be shown to be acceptable demonstrations of character and worth among his peers . |
| 27 | What the charity groups think of him is hardly going to make or break him in the operatic world . ’ |
| 28 | At Gorbachev 's side stood Marshall Dmitri Yazov , the defence minister who would later betray him in the attempted coup . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm normal now , ’ Maggie assured him in a fuzzy voice as he helped her to the bed and lifted her on to it . |
| 30 | Frankie could not be one of them , yet he feared in his hear that it might be true , because when she called him ‘ Nigger ’ it wounded him in a special way he did not really understand . |