Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have got to try to outbowl him in the early matches because there is a good chance we may go into the Tests with only one spinner . |
| 2 | Orders were sent to no fewer than four squadrons to try to engage him in the Irish Sea or , as a last resort , to intercept him off Brest on his way home ; but in the event none of them was needed for he was caught , almost by chance , near Kinsale on the southern coast of Ireland at daybreak on 29 February 1760 , by three frigates which had taken refuge there during the recent storm . |
| 3 | Nobody in particular , and I s I use the word him , nobody particularly wants to question him , nobody particularly wants to get him in a bad mood . |
| 4 | Smallfry always threatened to lock him in the toolshed with Rosie if ever he dared tell her secrets to anyone else . |
| 5 | They 'd locked him in a dirty little hole with a bed you would n't put a dog under . |
| 6 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 7 | At first sight , his praise of the Romanian regime seemed to put him in the same class as the ‘ Red Dean ’ , Hewlett Johnson . |
| 8 | Over the years she had grown to love him in a familiar , comfortable sort of way , though of late a change in temperament had made him difficult . |
| 9 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 10 | I am going to play him in the remaining reserve games so that I can get a good look at him . |
| 11 | I know he has done some bar work , ( hardly surprising for a pisshead like Harvey ) I remember seeing him in the Three Cups at Stamford Bridge a few years back . |
| 12 | They were ranked to meet him in the misty rain , every soul from castle and clachan , fidgeting and nervous , and in front of them all Marion Aluinn , eager to break the tense silence , lovely in her excitement . |
| 13 | I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms . |
| 14 | The self-confidence inspired by his Eton and Trinity background may have helped him in the several differences of opinion he has encountered in his life . |
| 15 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 16 | Knowing that this particular subordinate is sensitive to criticism , you decide to reprimand him in the open-plan office where many of his colleagues at neighbouring desks will hear what is going on . |
| 17 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
| 18 | I should prefer to watch him in the primeval forests of his native land , wielding an axe against some giant tree . |
| 19 | If you went to see him in the '60s and you go and see him now , it 's pretty much the same ; he holds true and keeps his tradition . |
| 20 | Turn to face him in a balanced stance |
| 21 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 22 | But there 's a big question mark over whether they could afford to keep him in the Third Division . |
| 23 | During the six years that followed his restoration , Louis put together again the coalition of ecclesiastical and secular support that had sustained him in the 820s . |
| 24 | Daphne Rye once again had pointed him in the right direction . |
| 25 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 26 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 27 | Maybe someone bold enough to improvise like that would even take the risk of getting himself really knocked out and dropped in the water , knowing I could n't fail to find him in a few minutes . ’ |
| 28 | Mum , look what I 've done Grumpy on done him , I 've done him in the right hat you see |
| 29 | I 've seen him in a proper leather jacket . |
| 30 | He claimed he got started after being spotted in a bar by someone who mistakenly thought they had seen him in a male model magazine . |