Example sentences of "[verb] him in a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |
| 2 | They grab him in a bearhug from behind . |
| 3 | He found him in a couple of minutes , before he had properly left the house . |
| 4 | In fact , he found him in a state of positive animation , in conversation with Chatterton about the dangers of travelling by public transport . |
| 5 | Producer Ken Hyman went in search for him and found him in a bar in Belgravia ‘ as drunk as a skunk ’ . |
| 6 | He found him in a comer of the hall , already half-drunk . |
| 7 | The young paratrooper turned to look at me , his eyes alarmed , as if he expected somehow to see that his buddies had caught him in a moment of vulnerability . |
| 8 | We put him in a pen at a secret location within Milton keynes , and then it was a matter of leaving him alone , and thankfully this fox has adjusted to the wild . |
| 9 | In fact , if he had n't have knocked him and out and put him in a coma in last round that Michael Watson would have won it . |
| 10 | Yes go and put him in a slice of toast Matt |
| 11 | The splash of the water against the wheel and the splatter of it across the windscreen recalled to Harry 's mind the sound of falling water that had drawn him in a dream up the stairs of the Villa ton Navarkhon : a dream of statues made flesh , of messages concealed in images , of meetings both expected and located , amounting to what all logic suggests they can not be : rendezvous to which one has already unconsciously agreed . |
| 12 | In fact they exchanged hints for Orwell 's own essay on Wodehouse ( 1945 ) ; and years after Orwell 's death , Waugh was to praise him in a broadcast for having generously helped to save Wodehouse from the undeserved public disgrace of prosecution as a war-time Nazi collaborator . |
| 13 | Members of the Special Operations Unit had immediately surrounded the area , trapping him in a pocket of countryside . |
| 14 | He ended up with another sub-par round and the leader board showed him in a tie for second place behind Carlssen , who had played another superb round to be nine under par . |
| 15 | Twice he needed to have attention from a doctor on the course but battled on to record a four under par 66 which was good enough to leave him in a tie for 9th place , nine shots behind the winner , Eduardo Romero from the Argentine . |
| 16 | A taped message from Escobar had been printed in the newspaper El Nuevo Siglo earlier in the month , saying that he would consider surrendering if the government ensured his safety and placed him in a prison in his home province of Antioquía . |
| 17 | ‘ Francis has remembered him in a codicil to his Will drawn up in Nassau . |
| 18 | If this scene was anything to go by , Kruger would have him in a cellar with the waters slowly rising . |
| 19 | With Sycorax on her back , Ariel dropped on to her haunches and took up her baby and tied him in a cloth to her breast ; she rubbed his mouth with soursop juice to keep him dry so that he would not howl with discomfort to be changed ( she packed soft moss against his bottom , just to be sure ) ; then she took a basket of her herbs and preparations and whistled softly to Paca , the last of her caveys , to follow . |
| 20 | ‘ We would expect to see him in a couple of warm-up fights , certainly someone in the top 10 , before he fights Mike Tyson again , if that is to happen , ’ said Morris . |
| 21 | According to Antony the Devil came to tempt and torture him in a variety of fantastical forms from lascivious women to wild beasts . |
| 22 | No lie would aid him in a contest with a master of the craft , but the truth , his only hope of gaining the upper hand , had to remain hidden . |
| 23 | Sacko , a UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) official serving in the Central African Republic , had been Finance Minister for six months before resigning in August 1987 in protest at the unwillingness of Traoré 's government to support him in a drive against corruption [ see pp. 36085-86 ] . |
| 24 | He carried on working until Debbie brought him in a cup of tea . |
| 25 | But he could not move and , even if he had been able to , he knew that the Robemaker could fell him in a breath-space by sorcery . |
| 26 | Speedwell jumped over the little brook that ran down the middle of the field and when Acorn tried to follow him and fell short , Silver joked with him as he scrambled out and rolled him in a patch of dead oak leaves until he was dry . |
| 27 | They planted him in a cemetery in Norwood about three weeks ago . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We 're going to steam him in a couple of minutes . ’ |
| 29 | The elation , the excitement and the wonderful afterglow of making love to her had left him in a mood of carefree tenderness . |
| 30 | It was a dramatic gesture , a revelation ; it put him in a position of power , if only for a moment , but he liked that position and his primacy had been denied in that group of irreverents . |