Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in his adopted position of right-back that Paul gained two England Under 21 caps and he is one of only a handful of players who have appeared for the Palace in ten post-war seasons , while his 319 games for the club place him firmly in the top five all-time appearances for us . |
| 2 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 3 | I beat him once in the 1988 Olympics and I know I can beat him again . ’ |
| 4 | He left a Will which places him firmly in the central Anglican tradition : |
| 5 | The Scot said : ‘ I was one punch away from knocking him out in the fifth and if I had n't been injured , I would have finished him . ’ |
| 6 | His climbing achievements are many , but it is his attempts on Everest which have lodged him firmly in the public consciousness . |
| 7 | He had seen him only in the dense fog . |
| 8 | Get him out in the fresh air as much as you can cos |
| 9 | I offered , once again , to put him up in the spare room for the night , but , once again , he would n't hear of it . |
| 10 | His honest , square-jawed and faintly familiar face served him well in the real estate business . |
| 11 | Pound , following a polemical strategy which served him well in the short run ( but which later back-fired ) deliberately provoked the academic classicists of his day ; and his use of his sources , classical and other , was always both hasty and high-handed . |
| 12 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 13 | The Goblins wait until the enemy are close by , and then push the Fanatic out towards the foe , giving him a good shove to start him off in the right direction . |
| 14 | In the second stanza we find him still in the classical world , though this time it is the Greek rather than the Italian , and it begins by being the Greek seen not through the eyes of Frazer , but through the eyes of Keats . |
| 15 | I hit him again in the same place , a little harder . |
| 16 | I watched him carefully in the next few days . |
| 17 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 18 | There was no sign of tenderness in the man who tossed her up into the saddle the next morning , but , seeing him now in the full light of day , Isabel was forced to concede that he was still handsome . |
| 19 | I was at the time very concerned , because he was posted almost immediately to North Africa , and there was no chance of helping him forward in the early days of his Christian life . |
| 20 | he played once more before the Lord 's show-piece and was called six times for throwing in the Hampshire match , but the selectors decided to risk him again in the second Test , where he was to meet his fate at the most famous ground in cricket . |
| 21 | Guy was always very close to his older sister , and after his accident she treated him consistently in the same way as she had before , which helped him to regain his normal social skills very quickly . |
| 22 | " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course . |
| 23 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 24 | I sent him right in the opposite direction . |
| 25 | Nutty stopped Midnight and brought him into the centre and Nails thought he was going to get a rest , but she immediately sent him off in the other direction . |
| 26 | Horne should have increased Everton 's lead when Ebbrell 's ball put him through in the 62nd minute but he delayed too long . |
| 27 | I want to know whether we 're going to be blushing when they put him up in the Foreign Ministry at a press conference and he spills . ’ |
| 28 | Swing , he screamed at himself as his arms crashed into the pine , not holding , but the weight of his body already carrying him on in the next arc of his trajectory . |
| 29 | Ivanisevic has the backing of Boris Becker , three-times All England King who edged him out in the 1990 semis . |
| 30 | If he loses I hope he would accept it with equal good grace and if he wins I will be a good loser and help him out in the general election . ’ |