Example sentences of "[verb] him in the [noun sg] [subord] " 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 | ‘ Tell that brother of yours that we 'll catch him in the end so he might as well give himself up . ’ |
4 | 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 ? |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 |
7 | I decided after all it would be better to go and see him in the shop like you said — ’ |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Hey , you could tape him in the night so he can believe you next time , that he snores ! |
11 | and erm I just stuck him in the bath when we got home |
12 | What you must do is tell Irina to keep him in the clinic till I can come . |
13 | I remember once having to chase a man who had done something nasty to someone , and losing him in the darkness as he dashed down a cobbled mews . |
14 | Francesca would n't have him in the house when she knew he was on something . |
15 | Add to that a predilection to falling off buses because you think you see Him on every corner , in every crowd , at every window , and the inevitability of actually seeing Him in the off-licence when you were n't expecting to , and feeling your entire stomach lurch forward involuntarily like waking from a dream of falling . |
16 | It was not a pleasant emotion , but it was a powerful enough one to have sustained him in the search when evidence was lacking . |
17 | So I smiled nervously and slammed him in the mouth with the metal box , trying to kick him in the groin as he sagged , but his heavy overcoat protected him well . |
18 | It would have struck him in the face if at the last moment , sensing it coming , he had not ducked his head . |
19 | Deliberately she looked him in the eye as she said it . |
20 | And a Romanian woman in London swears she saw him in the street as he dived into a taxi . |
21 | Simon had asked Hilary to marry him in the morning before he went into work . |
22 | ‘ I expect you would be a good judge of that , ’ she snapped , hating the fact that she felt less annoyed at finding him in the room than at the thought of all the other women he was comparing her to . |
23 | The Resistance would have put him in the grave if the Nazis had followed them . |
24 | He had put him in the Cabinet because , with Bonar Law gone , he needed a man from the Law stable to preserve the balance . |
25 | ‘ John was away a great deal , Laura and I travelled to join him in the constituency when we could and inevitably there was uncertainty and strain in the air . ’ |
26 | We 'll kick him in the groin if he questions it |
27 | They said an army sniper aimed a rifle with a telescopic sight at Jihad Mustafa Ali Sadek , 22 , and shot him in the back while he was at the top of his mosque 's minaret . |
28 | He added : ‘ I never struck him with my fists or kicked him in the face when I was in a standing position . ’ |
29 | ‘ Bullshit , ’ she remarked and punched him in the arm as he grinned . |
30 | She left him in the hall while she went to fetch her purse . |