Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] him in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 2 | Sir Alec Guinness 's head refused to put him in the school play — thinking he would never make it as an actor . |
| 3 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 4 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |
| 5 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |
| 6 | So a new ball Lewis This his third chance Stone has found him in the end . |
| 7 | He was shivering , and his teeth were chattering like Philip 's did when his Dad had kept him in the swimming bath too long . |
| 8 | At first sight , his praise of the Romanian regime seemed to put him in the same class as the ‘ Red Dean ’ , Hewlett Johnson . |
| 9 | The driver stiffened as he felt the gun muzzle jab him in the small of his back through the upholstery of the seat . |
| 10 | Their theme was simplicity itself : the precentor wished to become a monk ; the bishop wished to retain him in the service of the cathedral . |