Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] him in the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 But when he did , a single shot fired from the van shattered the driver 's window and hit him in the back , killing him .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 If you like I could have a word with the Chief Constable and put him in the picture , should you deem it appropriate . ’
6 Unbelievably , he sacked his son-in-law and replaced him in the manager 's seat with Trevor Proby .
7 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 .
8 Smallfry was smiling sweetly as she reached for Frankie 's sleeve and eased him in the direction of the door .
9 He dried Willie 's thin , bruised body , wrapped him up in a towel and sat him in the armchair .
10 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 .
11 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 . ’
12 ‘ 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 . ’
13 She raised her head and looked him in the eye .
14 She lifted her head and looked him in the face .
15 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 .
16 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 . ’
17 ‘ Which is why I 've spoken to the captain and put him in the picture .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Julie swung the hammer with all her strength and caught him in the mouth with its gleaming head .
21 She picked up a heavy leather glove and hit him in the face with it .
22 You went to your fucking soup and your fucking swill and left him in the night .
23 As the animal jumped into the flames , Buddha manifested himself , snatched the hare from the fire and set him in the Moon .
24 How could she possibly have walked into the reception room at the hotel where Rune was holding his anniversary party and looked him in the face without betraying the fact that despite the passage of time and distance she still loved him ?
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