Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so , says Mr Crust : ‘ Even in this environment , if your house is alight you want a fireman there and you want him there in a reasonable length of time . ’ |
| 2 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 3 | His head bent towards her and once again Jenna lifted her hands to ward him off in a panic-stricken way , but her fingers felt useless . |
| 4 | Information about a person 's private and personal affairs may be of a nature which shows him up in a favourable light and would by no means expose him to criticism . |
| 5 | Then Charley Bates and the Dodger took away Oliver 's expensive new suit , gave him some old clothes , and locked him up in a dark room . |
| 6 | He heaved his snorting , raging mount out of the press of dismounted men , swung him round in a trampling circle to clear ground about him , and drew off to realign his vision and find a just opponent . |
| 7 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |
| 8 | When in the winter of 838 – 9 Louis the German rebelled openly , the emperor crushed him completely in a swift campaign , and sent him back to Bavaria . |
| 9 | Although the very thought of court action had brought him out in a cold sweat , the same grittiness which had enabled his father to jump ship and seek a new life now came to his rescue . |
| 10 | Seeing him now in a different light , she studied him covertly as he read quickly through the typewritten sheets . |
| 11 | The thought of it brought him out in a cold sweat as he ran desperately on . |
| 12 | The Coke was cold and Harry drank it gratefully , even though he could feel that it brought him out in an instant sweat . |
| 13 | Slowly , he raised a finger and pointed at a man in the crowd , beckoning him forward in a friendly manner . |
| 14 | Last of his stick to leave the C130 , Grant 's rate of descent was half again as fast as the rest , taking him past the others , and plummeting him down in a whirling corkscrew . |
| 15 | If he loses he still wo n't quit but the FA could be forced to throw him overboard in a latter-day Boston tea party . |