Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They 'd locked him in a dirty little hole with a bed you would n't put a dog under . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Turn to face him in a balanced stance |
| 6 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | I 've seen him in a proper leather jacket . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That God created the world and then left it to a forsaken humanity , trying to address Him in an echoless void — this idea is n't new . |
| 11 | She had followed him in a second taxi to London Airport , taking her case with her . |
| 12 | Urban 's pro-French foreign policy during the Thirty Years War had left him in an exposed position when Richelieu joined forces with Protestant Sweden to thwart the restoration of Catholicism in Germany . |
| 13 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |
| 14 | The angry look on the judge 's sallow face showed that either his attendance in court that morning or Cranston 's arrival had put him in an ill humour . |
| 15 | I settled for the party in Fulham on Bunny 's recommendation , arranging to meet him in a trendy pub in Covent Garden beforehand . |
| 16 | IT WAS once said of Peter Shilton , by a frustrated forward who had failed to beat him in a one-on-one situation , that ‘ he just spreads his arms and fills up the whole bloody goal ’ . |