Example sentences of "[v-ing] him in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He set the bowl down , then lifted the boy gently , cradling him in a half-sitting position . |
| 2 | Unless it was true , as he 'd alleged , that the women had robbed him before tossing him in the stinking water . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 5 | He did n't tell her that they had brought him here unconscious after torturing him in the main building . |
| 6 | Passing him in the cramped area of the cockpit , her bare leg brushed against the coarseness of his knee . |
| 7 | Reagan was shown a picture of Calero meeting him in the Oval Office ; he did not know who he was . |
| 8 | The Royal Bank of Scotland is suing him in the High Court to recover the money , which includes a £500,000 overdraft . |
| 9 | But again the questions — was Boswell telling the truth about Johnson , or was he presenting him in the best possible light ? |
| 10 | On occasions a fortunate , or bemused , beneficiary received no less than three charters each confirming him in the legitimate enjoyment of the same right . |
| 11 | And then there was Matthew , always resentful , always looking to hurt ; and her father-in-law , leading the boy into bad ways , moulding him in the same pattern as himself . |
| 12 | Back in Fr Butler 's home parish of St Lachtain in Freshford , Kilkenny , Fr Seamus Henry said : ‘ I have n't been in touch with John for some months but I am supporting him in a pastoral way . |
| 13 | He did not recognize the man approaching him in a quiet corner of the drawing room , but feared he might be a drunken bore . |
| 14 | Gerald Baker , a Mandan-Hidatsa Indian who is the park ranger at Fort Union Trading Post in North Dakota , once the ‘ Times Square of the plains ’ , taught Mr Frazier how to use a double-bladed throwing axe and offered him the honour of joining him in a ceremonial sweat bath . |
| 15 | Mr Sabin 's family has been in the publishing and bookselling business since 1865 and his son Mark will be joining him in the new venture , together with David Fuller , another former Ackermann director . |
| 16 | Joining him in the national finals at Derby in a fortnight is clubmate Craig Wake , and Darlingtons Aaron Kelly , John Lee and Jim Smith . |
| 17 | Now that her son had taken over , she showed every sign of treating him in the same way , much to his discomfort . |
| 18 | Scudamore said : ‘ This has paid us dividends for our gamble in running him in a big handicap for the first time . |
| 19 | Assisting him in the difficult early days were ‘ ski buddies ’ , able-bodied skiers who gave one-to-one tuition . |
| 20 | I am looking forward to seeing him in the French Open and hopefully he will win it this year ! |
| 21 | I know he has done some bar work , ( hardly surprising for a pisshead like Harvey ) I remember seeing him in the Three Cups at Stamford Bridge a few years back . |
| 22 | The car turned into the road ahead of him , catching him in the full beam of its headlights . |
| 23 | He was able to satisfy Royalist investigators that an out-payment which he had made in connection with the king 's trial and execution had simply been a routine matter , in no way implicating him in the actual regicide . |
| 24 | He said after the case that the Department of Trade and Industry had been ‘ rather petty ’ in prosecuting him in the first place . |
| 25 | In the sudden brightness Gabriel could see every tree around him , until the light disappeared just as suddenly , leaving him in the blackest darkness . |
| 26 | It also provides the context in which to consider both the claim that for the later Foucault knowledge is absolutely determined , leaving him in the impossible situation of requiring something outside this for any prospect of critique , as well as the question of exactly how power and resistance are interdependent and to what extent they are separable . |
| 27 | If Ramsey was to be Archbishop of Canterbury , what was wrong with leaving him in the weighty see of Durham until the day came ? |
| 28 | Such specimens as we collect are obtained without bothering him in the slightest — smears for chromosome checks , the occasional blood sample , and so on , that 's all . |
| 29 | That is surely what most people want , and if only Mr Major had not taken Britain into the ERM and so impoverished them unnecessarily , they would be backing him in a clear majority now . |
| 30 | Having seen herself properly dressed again , she could not bear the thought of confronting him in the skimpy , shabby , ready-made clothes of wartime London . |