Example sentences of "[verb] him in the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also had to juggle the practicalities of being coach , going on part-time high-school teaching , and seeing if Otago Cricket Association would continue employing him in the off-season as executive director when he would n't be around for much of the summer . |
| 2 | She caught him in the hall as he put on his hat . |
| 3 | The scene of crime officer kept looking at him , as if he found him in the way but did not know how to say so . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell that brother of yours that we 'll catch him in the end so he might as well give himself up . ’ |
| 5 | On one occasion ‘ heavies ’ approached him in the street and cut his throat , near to the jugular vein . |
| 6 | After all , if the British government knifed him in the back when he was pursuing their patriotic interest , what was the point of going on ? |
| 7 | Mason meanwhile attacked one Messerschmitt which at once went straight down , but the others attacked him and one got three hits on his aircraft , which shattered the windscreen and wounded him in the hand as he broke away . |
| 8 | Then the man was running , and Blagg could have shot him in the back but he had only one round left . |
| 9 | We saluted the Guard-Sergeant , slapping our palms down against our sides in regulation salutes , looking him in the eye and showing our leave passes . |
| 10 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 11 | If you decide at the end of the day the thing to do is to pick up this kid and run like hell for somewhere you can gain , wave for help , or put him in the car and drive like mad to the hospital , then you might just do that , even though it breaks all the golden rules of first aid |
| 12 | I shut Ben in the conservatory now when I go out through the week , we just put him in the garage when we go out the weekend |
| 13 | In low politics , common opinion — no less common for being expensively hired by Conservative Central Office — encouraged him in the belief that he should fight much of the election sitting down . |
| 14 | But how can I look him in the face and tell him that 's turned out to be true ? ’ |
| 15 | I decided after all it would be better to go and see him in the shop like you said — ’ |
| 16 | Or she might drown him in the bath or push him under a train . |
| 17 | Rain joined him in the doorway but there was no time to speak before Cobalt splashed through the puddle to them . |
| 18 | Mrs Knight said Bruce 's daughter joined him in the house and cleared out a bureau which she had in the bedroom . |
| 19 | But if you see the top man around the business you are able to look him in the eye and tell whether you can trust him or not . |
| 20 | Thus ( 66 ) implies " He did n't dare oppose his wife 's whims any more than he dared commit high treason " , ( 67 ) that the speaker is of the opinion that they would n't dare say a word against him , and in ( 68 ) the speaker very clearly believes that the addressee does n't have the cheek to look him in the eye and tell such an obvious lie . |
| 21 | Almost as though to punish herself for that foolishness , she forced herself to look him in the eye and enquire , ‘ So , how is Janice enjoying married life ? ’ |
| 22 | Placing a hand on each of his shoulders , I look him in the eye and ask if he is all right . |
| 23 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 24 | ‘ They caught this guy in Chicago customs , found AZT in the luggage of this PWA , and threw him in the pen and did n't let him out for a week . ’ |
| 25 | You can stamp on toes , feet or shins ; knee him in the thigh or groin ; grab and squeeze testicles or pinch the soft inside of thighs along the trouser seam ; elbow him or her in the ribs or stomach if the person is behind you , or knee them in the belly if in front ; grab the little finger of one of the hands that is holding you round the waist or arms , and bend it backwards , forcing him or her to let go ; bite the side of the neck or slap a cheek or ear ; bash the nose with the front or back of your head ; force the head back by pressing your fingers up nostrils or squeezing the flats of your thumbs into eyes ; or even spit into eyes to make them blink . |
| 26 | What I ever did to annoy Old Saul , whether it was the heat that made him especially cantankerous , whether Agnes really had kicked him in the head when she arrived , as Mrs Clamp says-none of this do I know . |
| 27 | Hey , you could tape him in the night so he can believe you next time , that he snores ! |
| 28 | His tough character keeps him in the house and looks forward to the awaiting adventure . |
| 29 | Then 17-year-old Lee Diaz , of North End Gardens , Bishop Auckland , attacked a second party-goer , Carl Gent , punching him in the face and fracturing his jaw . |
| 30 | and erm I just stuck him in the bath when we got home |