Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] him in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something made for him in the darkness and struck him a violent blow just under the knee . |
| 2 | Iron Josh beckoned him down , and Denis knelt beside him in the cart . |
| 3 | Everyone deferred to him in the casting of lots , and after he had tossed his white counter into the bowl which was placed in the centre of the chamber there was a wild scramble for precedence . |
| 4 | He stopped by the gate and waited as she limped towards him in the darkness . |
| 5 | He had thought he had not cared what became of him in the battle and he had thought that , when it was over , he would return to the Wolfwood and that the creatures amongst whom he had lived would return , also . |
| 6 | If it now came to him in a new way it was no doubt simply an aspect of his belongingness with Marcus and Irina . |
| 7 | The sun came to him in a warm gust or like a warm veil enveloping him . |
| 8 | The idea of the vampire count , he said , came to him in a nightmare following a dinner of dressed crab . |
| 9 | It came to him in a flash . |
| 10 | It came to him in a flash . |
| 11 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 12 | It came to him in the small hours . |
| 13 | Carrie 's voice came to him in the darkness . |
| 14 | Conversely , if the accused can show that the material came to him in the normal course of business from a reputable supplier , he may have a defence . |
| 15 | The thought came to him in an instant as he stood , hesitating over whether to join the fight . |
| 16 | A swarm of ghosts gyred around him in a multiple helix , allowed some measure of self-determination by his preoccupation , furtively snatching their existence from his body and his mind . |
| 17 | The Gallic chief , Commius , who had been a friend and ally of Caesar , turned against him in the great revolt of Vercingetorix after the Roman invasion of 55 and 54 BC . |
| 18 | They all turned against him in the end did n't they ? |
| 19 | ‘ Not the usual kind of student 's flat , ’ muttered the Marshal , surprised to find his feet walking on fitted carpet , a thing that only happened to him in the lobbies of hotels he was checking on . |
| 20 | Tina walked towards him in the rain-washed playground while Jack looked warily round for her brother . |
| 21 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 22 | She felt again the fear she had known when she walked into him in the dark passage . |
| 23 | For months this lady had spoken kindly to Branwell , walked with him in the garden , talked to him alone in the evenings . |
| 24 | ( He was clearly influenced by Andrea Gabrieli and influenced him in turn , as he did Giovanni who served under him in the Munich choir from c. 1575 to 1579 . ) |
| 25 | She stiffened beside him in the darkness , absorbing the bitter truth . |
| 26 | Willi glanced at him in the mirror and thought he still did n't look too good . |
| 27 | She brushed by him in the dark , and her closeness , brought a sudden tingling which raised the short hairs on his skin for a moment ; then she was gone , and light from the hallway spilled into the room from the half-open door . |
| 28 | ‘ I know very little about her , although she worked for him in the war too . |
| 29 | We called for him in a taxi at Faber 's , Margaret waiting inside the vehicle . |
| 30 | Tweed 's close confidante , she often worked with him in the field . |