Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] him in the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And , although he had recently been known to talk to an invisible giant white rabbit and peek at his neighbours through binoculars , neither of these traits were deemed enough to blacken him in the eyes of the electors . |
| 2 | Jazzbeaux tried not to look him in the eye . |
| 3 | If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward , it has equally kept him from the sanatorium . |
| 4 | ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’ |
| 5 | That this tolerant attitude should have resulted in his being called an Anekāntavādin , or a believer in many doctrines , is not surprising , but it did not disturb him in the least . |
| 6 | Despite a diary mix-up , my unexpected arrival on a Saturday did not perturb him in the slightest . |
| 7 | He had hinted , as Maureen had done , that Pascoe was guilty of fraud but did not implicate him in the murder , and invited Wickham to accept that it was a political killing . |
| 8 | that does n't bother me , but considering it was only the second I 'd spoken to him and I did not fancy him in the least erm , it really made my skin crawl . |
| 9 | I want to tell the world tonight that they did not kill him in the name of Ireland . |
| 10 | And I did n't think him in the least like the Beast in the fairy tale although his hair and beard need a little trimming perhaps . |
| 11 | It did n't bother him in the least that she might be missing Arnie . |
| 12 | He had a reputation for being a bit slow-witted but it did n't perturb him in the least . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's lucky we did n't leave him in the car . ’ |
| 14 | I did n't see him in the evenings , though , unless there was a hospital party or something . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't see him in the alleyway . |
| 16 | But they do n't perturb him in the least . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't like him in the garden , but Derek keeps encouraging this thing . |
| 18 | Without naming names , he goes on to outline the situations which had so interested him in the cases of the Melanesians and the Tari Furora , as he points out that to tamper with the pattern of primitive culture at one point is to endanger the whole structure . |
| 19 | Paul had not recognized him in the porter 's uniform . |
| 20 | His knowledge of foreign issues was limited and Roosevelt had not consulted him in the brief period that Truman held the vice-presidency . |
| 21 | He was neither pallid nor flabby , prison had not marked him in the ways she expected . |
| 22 | That old bugger Grunte had not included him in the invitation to dine at some poncy joint called La Noblesse , the smartest part of the Hospitality Inn . |
| 23 | His first-rate performances — in Hotel in New Hampshire , and as a retarded man in Square Dance — were largely unhonoured , and his many other movies were n't hot , Worse , he had to scrabble out from a confusion of drink , drugs and sexual adventure that had finally landed him in the tabloids and the jokebooks . |
| 24 | His chest hurt and he felt sick , as if someone had just kicked him in the gut . |
| 25 | I knew the farmer who was hiding him , Signor Merli , because I had often met him in the bank , and I knew he was a very honest and reliable man who would never betray anybody . |
| 26 | I had n't wanted him before he was born , and , though I had never neglected him physically , I had n't loved him in the way most mothers love their children . |
| 27 | It was , by now , Saturday , a day on which the registrar 's office was normally closed , so special arrangements had to be made and the registrar had to open up just for me , which , I imagine , had n't put him in the best of moods , which manifested itself when I could n't remember the date on which Nigel and I were married . |
| 28 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 29 | Fashanu , ignored since being capped twice by Bobby Robson three years ago , said : ‘ Alan has had a good start but that does n't put him in the class of Ian . |
| 30 | ‘ We heard that you 've even got him in the house . ’ |