Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] him in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Ultimately , it was all too easy for Sainz , who could afford to enjoy the scenery in yesterday 's Scottish forest stages after Kankkunnen , the only man who could have overhauled him in the world title race , lost crucial time when his Lancia hit a rock . |
2 | Heydrich could have shot him in the head . |
3 | Then the man was running , and Blagg could have shot him in the back but he had only one round left . |
4 | If , for example , old man Jordan had come into the kitchen at that moment , Wycliffe might have seen him in the mirror ; but what of it ? |
5 | She might then have sought and received public assistance or have pledged her husband 's credit with tradesmen : in which case the National Assistance Board might have summoned him before the magistrates , or the tradesmen might have sued him in the county court . |
6 | Pure hackit anyhow Ah 'd never have lumbered him in the daylight . |
7 | That fat Cockney with his stupid tattoos and his jocular manner and his dirty jokes ; he should have dumped him in the canal ! |
8 | It would have struck him in the face if at the last moment , sensing it coming , he had not ducked his head . |
9 | He won the local Easter parade a couple of times as the best-dressed man which , in the depressed Thirties , must have put him in the mould of something of an exhibitionist . |
10 | The Resistance would have put him in the grave if the Nazis had followed them . |
11 | Her desire for such a life was so passionate , and her gratitude to Walter for this glimpse of it was so great that she could have kissed him in the street , and later that day she did in fact allow him to undo her brassiere strap without a word of protest . |