Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the fellow returned I entertained him here in the manor house . |
| 2 | I beat him once in the 1988 Olympics and I know I can beat him again . ’ |
| 3 | I hit him again in the same place , a little harder . |
| 4 | I watched him carefully in the next few days . |
| 5 | No , I called him up in the week , in the holiday and I asked him to come to Shelley 's and he said call me back . |
| 6 | " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course . |
| 7 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 8 | I looked him square in the face . |
| 9 | I looked him straight in the eye . |
| 10 | Then , at last , I looked him straight in the eyes . |
| 11 | I looked him straight in the eye . |
| 12 | I sent him right in the opposite direction . |
| 13 | I bent down and turned him until I had my hands under his arms , his back towards me , and I floated him along in the water to the steps and there strained to pull him up them and out onto the grass . |
| 14 | We are going back to 1978 , maybe I was a bit vain and thought the world revolved around me , but it was my way of motivating myself , and it worked with Archie Gemmill , every time I played him after that I kicked him up in the air . ’ |
| 15 | His hands were everywhere , so I kicked him hard in the ankle and told him exactly where to go . |
| 16 | He went for the machine-gun , but someone kicked him hard in the back of the head . |
| 17 | and er I picked him , I picked him up in the road and you see I just told him , I says oh I says , you 're the very man I 'm , I 'm looking for . |
| 18 | I see him back in the long term as county captain . |
| 19 | He left a Will which places him firmly in the central Anglican tradition : |
| 20 | Pound , following a polemical strategy which served him well in the short run ( but which later back-fired ) deliberately provoked the academic classicists of his day ; and his use of his sources , classical and other , was always both hasty and high-handed . |
| 21 | The sight which greeted him now in the tiger house was a pitiful one . |
| 22 | She prodded him fiercely in the buttocks with the tip of her brolly , accusing him of disloyalty . |
| 23 | She imagined him out in the square at that very moment concocting a plan to get into the flat again and make a thorough search . |
| 24 | Even Mortimer felt a tingle of horror as he saw the figure approach Ace and laugh , but he was momentarily taken aback when Ace 's hands suddenly whipped round and grabbed the man 's shoulders , and she kneed him swiftly in the groin . |
| 25 | Huy , recovering from the wounds he had received , and cursing the broken left forearm which the doctor at the Place of Healing had put in a splint and then bound too tightly , heard about the killing from Nebamun , who awakened him early in the morning — about the eleventh hour of night — with a furious hammering at his door . |
| 26 | He was her brother , and she loved him best in the world after her own parents . |
| 27 | She looked him straight in the eye and said , ‘ Do you know , dearie , it 's a matter of the utmost indifference to me what you do . ’ |
| 28 | Colour touched her cheeks but she looked him straight in the eyes and was just about to reply when the kitchen door opened and Gerard 's solid footsteps sound along the hall . |
| 29 | Now sir , can you tell me this , ’ and she looked him straight in the eyes , ‘ will it be just the same for him as if you had baptized him ? ’ |
| 30 | Trying to look as dignified as she could , under the circumstances , she looked him straight in the eyes , with more than a touch of defiance . |