Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] him in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also realised that this was a situation far beyond his metier and summoned the duty staff officer , who arrived resplendent in full ceremonials , pantaloons , highly polished knee-length riding boots , and regulation yellow walking stick , and visited Shaw in his billet and confronted him in a corner , where he held court . |
| 2 | The fate that befell him in the 1956 Grand National booked him a permanent place not only in the reminiscences of racing folk but in the British national memory . |
| 3 | But when he did , a single shot fired from the van shattered the driver 's window and hit him in the back , killing him . |
| 4 | Mason meanwhile attacked one Messerschmitt which at once went straight down , but the others attacked him and one got three hits on his aircraft , which shattered the windscreen and wounded him in the hand as he broke away . |
| 5 | Somebody shot the undertaker while he sat indoors in his shirt sleeves , stripped him of his remaining clothing and pushed him in the sea at the sewage outfall at or near high water . |
| 6 | If you like I could have a word with the Chief Constable and put him in the picture , should you deem it appropriate . ’ |
| 7 | Unbelievably , he sacked his son-in-law and replaced him in the manager 's seat with Trevor Proby . |
| 8 | Most of the people in Bonanza 's outfit had been aware that Mahoney was up to some kind of private business that kept him in the bucks more than whatever he earned from Bonanza . |
| 9 | Smallfry was smiling sweetly as she reached for Frankie 's sleeve and eased him in the direction of the door . |
| 10 | Manchester United manager , Alex Ferguson , gave England winger Lee Sharpe a vote of confidence and named him in an unchanged side for tonight 's home game against Arsenal . |
| 11 | He dried Willie 's thin , bruised body , wrapped him up in a towel and sat him in the armchair . |
| 12 | A taped message from Escobar had been printed in the newspaper El Nuevo Siglo earlier in the month , saying that he would consider surrendering if the government ensured his safety and placed him in a prison in his home province of Antioquía . |
| 13 | But then Arthurs , who had called at his former home to visit his three children , lashed out at Mr Berry with a cricket bat and kicked him in the face , breaking his jaw in several places . |
| 14 | I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He came over incensed , accusing me of hitting the ball that struck him in the testicles … it 's a reflection of the degree of tension . ’ |
| 16 | She raised her head and looked him in the eye . |
| 17 | She lifted her head and looked him in the face . |
| 18 | DEREK RANDALL , Nottinghamshire 's former England batsman , is recovering from a cartilage operation to cure knee trouble that hampered him in the closing stages of the season . |
| 19 | The court had taken Harvey away from his father and put him in the foster home ‘ until such time as the father can control his drinking and make a safe home for the boy . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Which is why I 've spoken to the captain and put him in the picture . |
| 21 | The sky goddess as a woman arched over her husband , earth , and , held up by her father , air , gave birth to the sun in the morning and swallowed him in the evening . |
| 22 | While Mrs Walton washed the baby and dressed him in a layette far finer than she had ever imagined existed , Tempy attended to Tamar and put a fresh nightgown on her . |
| 23 | With Sycorax on her back , Ariel dropped on to her haunches and took up her baby and tied him in a cloth to her breast ; she rubbed his mouth with soursop juice to keep him dry so that he would not howl with discomfort to be changed ( she packed soft moss against his bottom , just to be sure ) ; then she took a basket of her herbs and preparations and whistled softly to Paca , the last of her caveys , to follow . |
| 24 | ’ So I waltzed him across the road and put him in a doorway and left him for somebody else to find . |
| 25 | Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms . |
| 26 | Intellectual reviewers took him up in left-wing papers because of his music-hall background and appreciated him in a way that made him wretched . |
| 27 | Julie swung the hammer with all her strength and caught him in the mouth with its gleaming head . |
| 28 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 29 | Seb had two feet on the ladder when Melody took him by surprise and caught him in a hug . |
| 30 | She picked up a heavy leather glove and hit him in the face with it . |