Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him in the [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 | Smallfry always threatened to lock him in the toolshed with Rosie if ever he dared tell her secrets to anyone else . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | At first sight , his praise of the Romanian regime seemed to put him in the same class as the ‘ Red Dean ’ , Hewlett Johnson . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I am going to play him in the remaining reserve games so that I can get a good look at him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I should prefer to watch him in the primeval forests of his native land , wielding an axe against some giant tree . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 17 | But there 's a big question mark over whether they could afford to keep him in the Third Division . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Daphne Rye once again had pointed him in the right direction . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mum , look what I 've done Grumpy on done him , I 've done him in the right hat you see |
| 22 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 23 | By the end of the reign it was already falling off , and while Henry VI had much noble support for his coronation expedition in 1430–1 , those who continued to serve him in the French war in the years to come constituted a relatively small group of men . |
| 24 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 25 | ‘ What a pleasure it has been , and an honour to have been MP for Winchester for 13 years , ’ he said , thanking those who had supported him in the past year . |
| 26 | Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place . |
| 27 | I wager they 've put him in the meanest , coldest room , without even a brazier , after the way he spoke to Matilda . |
| 28 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 29 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 30 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |