Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] him [adv] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 It was in his adopted position of right-back that Paul gained two England Under 21 caps and he is one of only a handful of players who have appeared for the Palace in ten post-war seasons , while his 319 games for the club place him firmly in the top five all-time appearances for us .
2 Now it was drawing to its end she gathered the courage to look him straight in the face .
3 When he first struck up a friendship with Joanna , he could never have suspected it would one day put him firmly in the frame in a potential murder investigation .
4 Summoning her courage , Folly looked him squarely in the face .
5 When in the winter of 838 – 9 Louis the German rebelled openly , the emperor crushed him completely in a swift campaign , and sent him back to Bavaria .
6 The engine was less than five yards away when he felt a hand shove him hard in the small of the back .
7 As he did so a jolt of static electricity hit him right in the tip of his unrestrained bobber .
8 ‘ I think Oswald was about to tell us , ’ I replied , ‘ before someone 's dagger took him firmly in the back .
9 His honest , square-jawed and faintly familiar face served him well in the real estate business .
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