Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] him in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 2 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 3 | Pepys met him in 1665 . |
| 4 | Two months later Minton visited him in the country , pale from a pub crawl in Ipswich , and seemed to Lehmann ‘ more settled with Rickie [ sic[ off the booze ’ . |
| 5 | But when the RSPCA found him in January , he was in a starved condition , his ribs and hip bones showing through , and his back legs hardly able to support him . |
| 6 | The sharp hiss of an angry breath drawn through clenched teeth stopped him in his tracks . |
| 7 | Even his close confidant Manning described him in later years as imprudent . |
| 8 | Clarkson 's narrative revealed his own perseverance and commitment until exhaustion and financial difficulty overtook him in 1794 and Hoare fastened upon Clarkson 's continuing ‘ zeal ’ . |
| 9 | that experience changed him in every way . |
| 10 | When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye . |
| 11 | Inevitably , his steps led him in the end to the Corso , where the evening promenade was in progress . |
| 12 | Hooks of meat , barrows of vegetables , trays of pies , urns of tea passed him in every direction . |
| 13 | A journalist attacked him in 1791 for the ‘ permanent predominant prejudice , that the music is everything , and the words , nothing ’ at the Opéra : ‘ one is made aware of just one author , the author of the music . ’ |
| 14 | In particular , the powerful Beni-Gomez family schemed continually against Rodrigo until Alfonso banished him in 1081 . |
| 15 | The Mayor rebuked him in warm terms , whereupon the elegant creature said , hotly : ‘ Who are you to talk to me like that ? ’ |
| 16 | — Like Mrs Plews , Mr Jim Tomlinson , of Richmond , found the study helped him in his work as a teacher at Risedale School , Hipswell , Catterick Garrison . |
| 17 | His father was a tailor and for some years the young Steen helped him in his business . |
| 18 | Grimma prodded him in the stomach . |
| 19 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 20 | In Denmark the same year Prime Minister Schluter went to the polls after a social democrat coalition defeated him in Parliament and ruled that NATO ships coming to Denmark must be nuclear weapon free . |
| 21 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |
| 22 | The US President received him in 1978 and so did the Queen — but the purges went on . |
| 23 | Assistant recorder Paul Downes remanded him in custody for two weeks for a report to be prepared . |
| 24 | I believe Surere encouraged him in this . |
| 25 | Late that evening , Corbett was found by a servant sent by Selkirk , who announced in broad Scots that the knight would be grateful if Corbett joined him in the outer bailey near the main gate . |
| 26 | Having tried to arrange repatriation and found it hopeless , he was resigned to whatever future faced him in Germany . |
| 27 | Aston Villa signed him in June 1986 for £200,000 and three years later Keown went to Everton in a £750,000 deal . |
| 28 | In the Hexham vacancy of 1866 the diocesan chapter included him in its terna , and in the same year Henry Manning , archbishop of Westminster [ q.v. ] , suggested him to Rome as coadjutor archbishop of Sydney , Australia . |
| 29 | Lucy watched him in wonder . |
| 30 | All gossip about the failures of parochial clergy nourished him in his downtrodden state . |