Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] him in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Methodists never made much headway with the Machin family , ’ said Rose , still keeping her distance and not looking him in the eye . |
| 2 | Carol distracted the whitecoated male assistant , exercising commendable control by not kneeing him in the nuts as she no doubt would have liked to . |
| 3 | Singing the national anthem they pushed John through the streets , finally dumping him in the Town Mill pond . |
| 4 | As Mr Leslie had explained earlier he was completely sober and was not given to imagination , he screwed his eyes up looking for the reason for the footsteps ; he could n't see the feet but heard them quite distinctly passing him in the ballast below . |
| 5 | I was particularly unconvinced by the scene where they go haring round the countryside in search of Josef Locke ( Ned Beatty ) and end up finding him in a pub . |
| 6 | Because any religion must , at the root , be dependent upon at least one unprovable assumption , it is utterly wrong for any person to instruct a child about ‘ god ’ or religion without also leaving him in no doubt that the instruction is so based . |
| 7 | Then the Burewala Bombshell started to work Smith over , kicking a bouncer high over him then hitting him in the box , before having him caught for a duck , pushing to midwicket as he swung his body behind a fixed forward prod : 27 for 2 . |
| 8 | 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 . |