Example sentences of "[to-vb] he in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , Jackson had managed to convey the essence of this tall , eccentric doctor in his report , enough to make Montgomery very curious to meet him in the flesh . |
| 3 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 4 | No doubt there were minions in plenty to see to the plane and Maggie noted that his sister had not come rushing to meet him in the car . |
| 5 | It felt good to talk about it , to describe her sense of total humiliation at having , as it were , bared herself to Matthew only to find him in a dressing gown , with some … strumpet drinking coffee with her dress half-unbuttoned . |
| 6 | It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room . |
| 7 | After a few weeks , Mr Sowerberry decided that he liked Oliver 's appearance enough to train him in the undertaking business . |
| 8 | I am about to catch him in a trap . |
| 9 | WPC Ackland is hot on his trail — but for some reason never manages to catch him in the act . |
| 10 | She 'd have to catch him in the morning — But catch him she would , she vowed silently . |
| 11 | But he drew back , and taking her hand , forced her to caress him in a way that revolted her . |
| 12 | I 'd like to punch him in the face for his insolence . |
| 13 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 14 | This is the same young man who bit the ear of the governor — and we can only meet and get to know him in the novel itself . |
| 15 | Nevertheless it is indisputable that all the early church fathers believed in the Devil as the Evil One , although it was never found necessary to define him in the way we must do so about God . |
| 16 | The girls were allowed to visit him in the clinic . |
| 17 | She lived in Paris , he at Croisset ; he would n't come to the capital , she was n't allowed to visit him in the country . |
| 18 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
| 19 | Ianthe did not think of asking John to accompany her , because it was difficult to imagine him in a church . |
| 20 | Somehow it was hard to imagine him in the gym . |
| 21 | He must first obtain leave to move for judicial review and then , if he obtains leave , must succeed in persuading the court to help him in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction . |
| 22 | Several influences combined in this period to help him in the search for an alternative theological approach . |
| 23 | In fact they exchanged hints for Orwell 's own essay on Wodehouse ( 1945 ) ; and years after Orwell 's death , Waugh was to praise him in a broadcast for having generously helped to save Wodehouse from the undeserved public disgrace of prosecution as a war-time Nazi collaborator . |
| 24 | Unlike Alfonso , they chose to recognize his worth and to aid him in the war against the African Moors . |
| 25 | She came last to Lachlan , and for the first time since he had startled her raised her head to look him in the face . |
| 26 | It was out in the open now and she was able to look him in the face again , all pretence finished . |
| 27 | to look him in the face again |
| 28 | He grabbed Rohmer by the arm and swung him around so that he was forced to look him in the face . |
| 29 | She turned her head slightly to look him in the face . |
| 30 | But if you see the top man around the business you are able to look him in the eye and tell whether you can trust him or not . |