Example sentences of "in him [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a name like Kelly , he must have some Irish in him so he could n't be all bad . |
| 2 | He learned to use his charm , and ‘ it became ’ , his biographer says , ‘ so strong a factor in him that it resembled great beauty in a woman ’ . |
| 3 | Suffering , commonly seen as ugly and distorting , stirred emotions in him that brought the word beauty to his lips . |
| 4 | What would some wily girl see in him that he would respond to ? |
| 5 | ‘ It 's what 's in him that counts , ’ Kevin said . |
| 6 | As it turned out he had more in him that he realised . |
| 7 | Determined though she was to divide her life from his , the obscure suspicion remained in him that their fates were interwoven . |
| 8 | Though he 'd never used it , the Bowl was reputedly the most accurate prophetic tool known in the worlds , and now — sitting amid his treasures , with a sense growing in him that events on Earth in the last few days were leading to some matter of moment — he brought the Bowl down from its place on the highest shelf , unwrapped it , and set it on the table . |
| 9 | One final passage from Myself My Two Countries vividly evokes the influences which formed Boulestin 's tastes in food and implanted in him that feeling for the authenticity which alone is true luxury . |
| 10 | " There was , " she said , a little boy in him that had never been released . |
| 11 | She thought of Alexei , his life , its wealth , its comforts , his family , so substantially lodged in him that nothing could remove them . |
| 12 | Even trying to shield herself from him , she could feel that void in him that he wanted her to fill . |
| 13 | Luther Reynolds had fostered a sadistic streak in him that frightened her . |
| 14 | Ben studied the man as he talked , aware of a strength in him that was somehow more than physical . |
| 15 | There was such stillness in him that when he moved it was like something dead had come alive again . |
| 16 | No ; I could n't stay close to whatever it was in him that liked it so much . |
| 17 | As he approaches the city on the freeway the same old restless excitement stirs in him that he felt on that first apocalyptic evening all those years ago . |
| 18 | He could feel the tension like a coil in him ; could feel responses waking in him that he had n't felt since … well , since they 'd tried to reconstruct him . |
| 19 | He smiled coolly , and it was a smile that somehow managed to convey a ruthless hardness in him that was n't used to compromise and was n't going to start now . |
| 20 | It was easy to see that his roots went down fathoms deep in this soil , and transplanting would have destroyed everything in him that was of quality . |
| 21 | Yet , though she longed to flee from him , to put huge distances between them , there was something drawing her , some mystery in him that seemed to reach out and take her in its clutches . |
| 22 | The autocratic streak ran so strong in him that he probably did n't even realise he was being high-handed . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm well aware of whom they 're for , ’ he bit out , and Ellie belatedly became rather frighteningly aware of the dangerous quality in him that had only been hinted at before . |
| 24 | Or : ‘ The swift blinking of his eyes and the trembling of his sensitive hands … aroused feelings in him that he had not ever owned up to even to himself ’ ? |
| 25 | However , when his father confided in him that he too was a Communist , the interest in the cause dwindled , and the boy soon exchanged the party button for a series of buttons with obscene words … |
| 26 | And he got out of there fast , before she could see it , some masculine fear in him that if she knew how he felt she would use his vulnerability against him . |
| 27 | He remembered a homespun breast rough under his sleepy cheek , and an arm that cradled him , and the steady rocking of the horse under them on the long ride into the fringes of Wales that day ; and suddenly at parting the terrible knowledge in him that , if he let go of Master Harry now , he would never get him back again . |
| 28 | Those who say that they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear him , do not in fact believe in him but in those who have taught them that God exists . |
| 29 | Living in close intimacy with Jean-Claude had not prepared me for confronting in musical shape the qualities I sensed and loved in him but could not define . |
| 30 | Jezrael hugged him tighter as if to hold the life in him but it trickled out around her . |