Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] he in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1	What the charity groups think of him is hardly going to make or break him in the operatic world . ’
2	His political ideals included the concept of arbitration as a substitute for war in the settlement of national disputes , and involved him in the jingoistic disputes of 1877 .
3	The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing .
4	They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ .
5	‘ Why not go and see him in the proper way instead of lurking around by night ? ’
6	None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance .
7	She took him to herself and loved him in the mystical , supreme way she believed her mother had loved her father ; she gave him everything — her innocence , her youth , her maidenhead .
8	And then just up and shoot him in the good old British way .
9	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 . ’
10	But I think I 'll know how to dig him out and take him in the later rounds . ’
11	Hear us now as we attempt to contact Simon 's father and help him in the great spiritual work that awaits him in this prime time of his boyhood ! ’
12	Surely the lightning stroke of heaven should have fallen upon him and destroyed him in the very deed . ’

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