Example sentences of "[verb] him in [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH spy Ian Spiro left bloody fingerprints smeared on his son 's bedroom walls after blasting him in the head twice with a handgun . |
| 2 | As Mr Leslie had explained earlier he was completely sober and was not given to imagination , he screwed his eyes up looking for the reason for the footsteps ; he could n't see the feet but heard them quite distinctly passing him in the ballast below . |
| 3 | They buried him in the churchyard here . |
| 4 | Put him in a coach now and by morning Russell might be used to being close to white people again . |
| 5 | Lucy reckoned that , for the man in charge , he had some staggeringly dull tasks to handle ; she 'd seen him in the stockroom once , counting every bottle in every crate of tonic water . |
| 6 | She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom . |
| 7 | She had quite literally thrown herself at him , she had bitten him in the neck so hard that he had bled , she had scratched his face and torn his clothes . |
| 8 | It was out in the open now and she was able to look him in the face again , all pretence finished . |
| 9 | to look him in the face again |
| 10 | He had hoped to make her apologize humbly and promise never to use him in a story again . |
| 11 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 12 | I was accompanying him in the show anyway and I think we just had the nerve . ’ |
| 13 | He is refreshingly straightforward and forthright , embarrassing Labour 's image makers who attempted to keep him in the background as much as possible during the election campaign . |
| 14 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 15 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 16 | The second hit him in the back then travelled upwards for about eight inches before bursting out of his chest . |
| 17 | The strain of having him in the club practically all the time had been hard enough . |
| 18 | Bishops Hall doing it nicely under Brad and it 's good to see him in the saddle today because he was offered the ride on Morley Street but he 'd already said yes and he 's a man of his word and he agreed to ride this horse . |
| 19 | And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step , and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch . |
| 20 | Waugh perceived a resemblance between the two books himself , and in his letter to Orwell on Nineteen Eighty-Four he reproached him in a jibe as potent as any he ever made to friend or enemy : ‘ Men who love a crucified God need never think of torture as all-powerful . ’ |
| 21 | Fenella Fielding saw him in the play there . |
| 22 | ‘ I saw him in the canteen once or twice after he 'd left comparability , ’ says Treacher . |
| 23 | So what you must do , and it is not easy , is to create a clown-like detective hero who has a core of toughness , of shrewdness even , which will allow him in the end plausibly to come out on top . |
| 24 | While Mrs Walton washed the baby and dressed him in a layette far finer than she had ever imagined existed , Tempy attended to Tamar and put a fresh nightgown on her . |
| 25 | He told the assembly 's members that if they did not vote down the existing chief minister , a supporter of Mr Sharif 's , and put him in the post instead , the president would dissolve the assembly and they would all lose their jobs . |
| 26 | I 'll get him in a Glory all right and up Monument Hill . ’ |
| 27 | The club struck him in the stomach again , dripping him to his knees , and there was a sudden crack that seemed unnaturally loud in the silence . |
| 28 | Or perhaps it was like one of those big animals Grimma had showed him in a book once . |