Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] him in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told . |
| 2 | Oh fine , yet Jo was just saying on the phone there that she 'd seen him in a catalogue . |
| 3 | They 'd locked him in a dirty little hole with a bed you would n't put a dog under . |
| 4 | They 'd kept him in a kiosk on Brighton front day and night waiting for the Germans to invade . |
| 5 | When Sophie had joined him in a waltz … |
| 6 | The young paratrooper turned to look at me , his eyes alarmed , as if he expected somehow to see that his buddies had caught him in a moment of vulnerability . |
| 7 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 8 | As the hangers-on increased , he became bitterly aware that his inheritance , far from liberating him , had trapped him in a role he could not forsake . |
| 9 | Society and its rules had trapped him in a corner . |
| 10 | Perhaps the mad fuckers had hung him in an abattoir . |
| 11 | He claimed he got started after being spotted in a bar by someone who mistakenly thought they had seen him in a male model magazine . |
| 12 | The splash of the water against the wheel and the splatter of it across the windscreen recalled to Harry 's mind the sound of falling water that had drawn him in a dream up the stairs of the Villa ton Navarkhon : a dream of statues made flesh , of messages concealed in images , of meetings both expected and located , amounting to what all logic suggests they can not be : rendezvous to which one has already unconsciously agreed . |
| 13 | The magazine had shown him in a ‘ compromising position ’ with Gypsy Granny . |
| 14 | George Birkitt was looking distinctly peeved , aware that Michael Banks had upstaged him in a way that was quite unanswerable . |
| 15 | She had followed him in a second taxi to London Airport , taking her case with her . |
| 16 | The elation , the excitement and the wonderful afterglow of making love to her had left him in a mood of carefree tenderness . |
| 17 | Urban 's pro-French foreign policy during the Thirty Years War had left him in an exposed position when Richelieu joined forces with Protestant Sweden to thwart the restoration of Catholicism in Germany . |
| 18 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |
| 19 | I felt I ought to have gone in earlier ; that now I had put him in a huff . |
| 20 | It was fortunate indeed that we had put him in a cell with another person . |
| 21 | The angry look on the judge 's sallow face showed that either his attendance in court that morning or Cranston 's arrival had put him in an ill humour . |
| 22 | Or perhaps it was like one of those big animals Grimma had showed him in a book once . |
| 23 | She had sent him in an ambulance to Crosshouse Hospital . |
| 24 | They had cornered him in an alley . |
| 25 | It had failed him in a crisis and that was once too often . |