Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] he in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |
| 2 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 3 | When I met Kirk and started to work with him , I sort of felt I 'd known him in some other life . |
| 4 | The figure of Moses , the key figure for Freud in Judaism , seemed to preoccupy him in these last years of his life , and it is only understandable that people see Freud as still wrestling with his own father in this intellectual activity . |
| 5 | The question seemed to amuse him in some way . |
| 6 | Proud dad Mick , 33 , of Rochester , Kent , dashed to enrol him in Third Division Gillingham 's supporters club . |
| 7 | The lovely Polish mezzo Stefania Toczyska , who had three arias of her own , as well as joining Carreras in duets from Cavalleria Rusticana , Il Trovatore and Carmen , was also permitted a single encore before she quietly disappeared to leave him in sole charge . |
| 8 | His employers offered to pay him in full until the 12-month period expired and the High Court granted them an injunction , preventing Mr Henderson from leaving prematurely . |
| 9 | Minton , perceiving Cornish 's shyness , made him answer most of the questions and listened attentively to his replies , thereby forcing Cornish through the shyness barrier , an experience he ever afterwards felt stood him in good stead . |
| 10 | It did n't do him a lot of good in the early er in the early days , but er it did stand him in good stead later of course because he became er er a full-time official o of the er Notts area N U M. |
| 11 | While Brown 's victory did not immediate transform his candidacy from the status of quixotic eccentric to serious contender , it did establish him in third place behind Clinton and Tsongas , and ensured the continuance of federal matching funds . |
| 12 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 13 | Until top jockey Mark Dwyer was handed the plum ride on Jodami this season , the trainer 's daughter Anthea and her husband Patrick Farrell had partnered him in all his races . |
| 14 | This from eight-year-old Leslie who had let him in earlier . |
| 15 | The fat boy had mated him in four moves . |
| 16 | A witness had seen him in deep water , shouting and waving for help . |
| 17 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 18 | To begin with , they thought that the Robemaker had injured him in some unimaginable way , for the crimson mask still had him in its grip and in the flickering light , it looked for a moment as if the lower part of his face was covered in blood . |
| 19 | George had told him in private the reason for Sarah Butler being packed off to Leeds , and he had realised then that her infatuation for George was an obsession . |
| 20 | He had been trained to recognise anybody who had served under him , or who had helped him in any way . |
| 21 | Sarah Fleming had unsettled him in more ways than one . |
| 22 | An administrative career , and after 1848 his Bonapartist background , had led him in 1852 to the important prefectorate of Bordeaux , where he had hosted the famous reception in November of that year at which Louis-Napoleon in the course of his official speech had virtually inaugurated the Empire . |
| 23 | He would have preferred , I knew , to keep them at home , but Ruth , his wife , had overruled him in that , as she did in quite a few other matters . |
| 24 | He was fretted by the thought of Kate , back at the scene of crime by now , and he felt a spurt of resentment against Dalgliesh who had involved him in this irrelevant mess . |
| 25 | I wondered if I had offended him in some way . |
| 26 | She had liked him in those days and some of that liking still remained , resented , only half-acknowledged , but bound up with memories of sunlit walks in Port Meadow , luncheon and laughter in Hugo 's rooms , with the years of hope and promise . |
| 27 | When he stood there was blood all over the white shirt his mother had dressed him in that morning . |
| 28 | EVOLUTION and the transmission of cultural forms , topics much discussed in Eliot 's youth , continued to concern him in much of his later work , and he retained a profound distrust of the idea of evolution as progress . |
| 29 | These shoes had stood him in good stead . |
| 30 | His loyalty had stood him in good stead after the restoration , and he was now a commissioner of police for religious conformity — a post which did not prevent him from working in any other area which Horemheb , through the king , saw fit to appoint him to . |