Example sentences of "him in [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eric and I first played with him in 1936 for the Young Players of Surrey . |
| 2 | His scalp is valued above all others in Scotland , with Labour desperate to regain the seat they lost to him in 1983 in the biggest pro-Tory swing of the campaign . |
| 3 | Lowther was active as a barrister and , according to his autobiography , the circuit judges nominated him in 1616 as a JP for Westmorland ; he joined his father on a bench which welcomed his legal knowledge . |
| 4 | Broadway welcomed him in 1956 in Mr Wonderful and Hollywood beckoned . |
| 5 | ACTOR Clint Eastwood 's fan club has folded — after asking him in vain for a fistful of dollars . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The impetuous young man became infatuated with the dancer Barberoni , was summoned home from Europe , and a ‘ safe ’ marriage negotiated for him in 1749 to his first cousin Lady Elizabeth Campbell , daughter of John , second Duke of Argyll [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 9 | She 'd probably have the bad taste to put him in one of her cynical , satirical stories . |
| 10 | In a stand-up scenario , as the crazy newsagent , Merton was on form ( although rarely at his very best ) , but put him in one of his sketches and the limitations of his acting are obvious . |
| 11 | If parents wished their son to become a Scribe they took him to Jerusalem at the age of thirteen and enrolled him in one of the Rabbinical schools . |
| 12 | Those who have not yet had a surfeit of Monsieur Depardieu can see him in one of his period roles in the sumptuous Tout Les Matins Du Monde . |
| 13 | A specially constructed harness had been devised for him in one of the clinically white rooms where analysis was conducted . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've wrapped him in one of Dad 's handkerchiefs , ’ he said . |
| 15 | While Blanche tries to pass him in one of the passages he grabs her and he hurts her in the cruellest and most brutal way . |
| 16 | ‘ I had heard about Smailovic and his Sarajevan Opera String Quartet some time ago and had the idea of offering him support by writing a piece and joining him in one of his concerts at the front line . ’ |
| 17 | However , Mr Doe claims that the reply from the Minister has vindicated him in one of his other chief concerns , the future of the national rail timetable . |
| 18 | UNESCO selected him in 1974 as one of the world 's ten foremost researchers in Parapsychology . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the end , a post was found for him in 1844 as palaeontologist with the Geological Survey , with a salary of 300 per year ; and on the strength of this in 1848 he married . |
| 21 | This boy is clearly highly disturbed and there are dangers for him in either of the options which were open to the justices to make the order or to refuse it . |
| 22 | Would she have to face him across a court and wrangle with him in public over custody of Kirsty ? |
| 23 | To his professional duties he had added the role of Departmental Safety Officer , and it was this experience which took him in 1977 to Imperial College in the new post of College Safety Director . |
| 24 | His sophisticated perception of the long-term problems of Senegalese politics , however , led him in 1977 to ‘ invite ’ the formation of three new parties — liberal democratic , social democratic , and left/Marxist . |
| 25 | The expedition was a military failure , but it led to the treaty of Brétigny of May 1360 , which gave Edward the lands ceded to him in 1358 with a ransom reduced to 3,000,000 gold crowns . |
| 26 | Samuel Hartlib [ q.v. ] , seeking relief in England for distressed Protestants abroad , named him in 1630 as a leading well-wisher . |
| 27 | A journalist attacked him in 1791 for the ‘ permanent predominant prejudice , that the music is everything , and the words , nothing ’ at the Opéra : ‘ one is made aware of just one author , the author of the music . ’ |
| 28 | While still a student he won in 1912 both the chair and the crown at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Wrexham , a feat repeated by him in 1915 at the National Eisteddfod held in Bangor . |
| 29 | From Tripoli the advance into Tunisia involved him in some of the bitterest fighting of the war : in the Matmata Hills on the outflanking of the Mareth Line ; at Wadi Akarit , where he had a narrow escape when he received ( as he modestly put it , doubtless so as not to worry me unduly ) ‘ a wallop from a piece of spent shell ’ , but was not badly injured ; and at the drive north to Enfidaville . |
| 30 | Where the old badger is coming from Bill Morrison 's motto in life is ‘ never volunteer , never refuse ’ , a policy which has landed him in some of the hottest seats in the profession , as he tells Julia Irvine |