Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Daphne Rye once again had pointed him in the right direction . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mum , look what I 've done Grumpy on done him , I 've done him in the right hat you see |
| 10 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place . |
| 14 | I wager they 've put him in the meanest , coldest room , without even a brazier , after the way he spoke to Matilda . |
| 15 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Our people have met him in the social life of the arts world . |