Example sentences of "[verb] him in [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I punished him in every way I could think of — I married him to Minnie , gave him children , got him bitten by a vampire so that he grew fangs and finally had him turned into a rat by a wicked witch , a great improvement . |
| 2 | As the hangers-on increased , he became bitterly aware that his inheritance , far from liberating him , had trapped him in a role he could not forsake . |
| 3 | This is the same young man who bit the ear of the governor — and we can only meet and get to know him in the novel itself . |
| 4 | Nevertheless it is indisputable that all the early church fathers believed in the Devil as the Evil One , although it was never found necessary to define him in the way we must do so about God . |
| 5 | As it was , the week he spent on Mrs Goreng 's tour confirmed him in the ideas he had brought with him . |
| 6 | Now , to confound her , there was that man — if she truly had recognised him in the wreck she had seen . |
| 7 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 8 | Partly in order to show the world ( and , perhaps , reassure himself ) that " his destiny and that of Spain [ were ] consubstantial and that God [ had ] placed him in the position which he [ occupied ] for great things " . |
| 9 | When Pc Black had found him in the toilets he said he had temporarily removed his glasses to wipe them , and that a friend who was there had brought them to him at the police station . |
| 10 | He was neither pallid nor flabby , prison had not marked him in the ways she expected . |
| 11 | She knelt to lay the tray on the grass , then , frankly curious , turned to study him in a way she could never have done had he been conscious . |
| 12 | However , observing him in the classroom he had noticed his immature behaviour . |
| 13 | But that pleasure was tinged with sadness because his mother , Joanna , is n't alive to see him in a role he might have been born to play . |
| 14 | ‘ True , it may not necessarily reform the offender but at least it punishes him in a way which society would regard as just . |
| 15 | It was one of his most fertile periods — he was n't a great letter-writer — too polite — he said she understood him in the letter I — I — saw — he said — ’ |
| 16 | When I saw him in the doorway I thought he 'd come to settle that score . |
| 17 | if you can just fasten him in the back it 'll be smashing wo n't it ? |
| 18 | I answered him in a way which is probably better not repeated , and hung up . |
| 19 | She endured his lovemaking , sometimes she even enjoyed it , but for the greater part she could not love him in the way he truly deserved . |
| 20 | She wondered if Mrs Gray wanted to be fair to her husband and to avoid mentioning him in a role which showed him having to report to HQ , as it were ; or whether she wanted to be fair to Canon Wheeler , about whom , her tone suggested , she might share her husband 's opinion . |
| 21 | Watching him in the market she saw how popular he was , and certainly he had an eye for the best produce on offer , but when it came to the exchange of cash he parted with it too readily . |
| 22 | She had left London without seeing Newman , telling him in a letter she was staying at her sister 's place in Southwold further up the Suffolk coast . |
| 23 | Although upon return to Canada for what might prove to be no more than a temporary visit the mother 's situation might be unsatisfactory and she might suffer discomfort or perhaps even hardship , there is no evidence that there is a risk , let alone a great one , that the child 's return would place him in a situation which is intolerable . |
| 24 | I am therefore rescinding the sentence of death you pronounced , and shall re-assign him in a capacity which will make full use of his special abilities . |
| 25 | Her body moved against his , leaving him in no doubt what she meant , whether he remembered or not . |
| 26 | And when Changez embraced him in the street I thought I heard Anwar 's bones cracking . |
| 27 | Lord Denning MR said : Every member of the community is entitled to carry on any trade or business he chooses and in such manner as he thinks most desirable in his own interests , so long as he does nothing unlawful : with the consequence that any contract which interferes with the free exercise of his trade or business , by restricting him in the work he may do for others , or the arrangements which he may make with others , is a contract in restraint of trade . |
| 28 | I said I understand your busy , I said if you ca n't turn him say , then I will turn him in an hour I ca n't do it before , fine , I said at least I 'm not sitting like a prat telling him a load of rubbish |
| 29 | Watching him , teasing him , tickling him in the place he liked between his front legs , Nails idled the afternoon away , pushing out of his mind the horrors that lay in wait : the busybody care people poking their noses in , the job he had no fat chance of getting when he was out of school on his ear , no more riding at Biddy 's , no nothing at all , not even any certainty of keeping in touch with batty Firelight and her pushy baby . |