Example sentences of "[verb] he in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watching the final scenes of Jean Harlow 's last film , the ones shot after she had died , defeated him in this way . |
| 2 | I want him in this evening . |
| 3 | He expected Caterina to be there to tell him that Rosalba absolutely refused to meet him in such compromising circumstances and considered him a blackguard and a monster even to suggest such an assignation . |
| 4 | It was Urquhart , telling her to meet him in half an hour outside the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane . |
| 5 | A further humiliation for Bush was the news that maverick Independent Ross Perot headed him in several states . |
| 6 | You may recall that I proposed earlier a scheme to do just that — namely , the registration of a new entry , but accompanied by a code known to the Registrar which would alert him in any case of attempted fraud . |
| 7 | From Tripoli the advance into Tunisia involved him in some of the bitterest fighting of the war : in the Matmata Hills on the outflanking of the Mareth Line ; at Wadi Akarit , where he had a narrow escape when he received ( as he modestly put it , doubtless so as not to worry me unduly ) ‘ a wallop from a piece of spent shell ’ , but was not badly injured ; and at the drive north to Enfidaville . |
| 8 | Subsequent parliamentary enquiries into improper electoral practices involved him in some censure and this enabled Disraeli , who never liked him , to make fresh arrangements for the management of the party in opposition . |
| 9 | Lucie , who had been calling to him all the while , unheard above the din , caught him in both arms and ran with him , up the steps and through the chapel door which Izzie was holding open . |
| 10 | And now she caught him in another gesture , but a surreptitious one this time — the quick shooting of a cuff to glance at his watch . |
| 11 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 12 | Nobody excelled him in that judgement , with which he united his own observations on nature , the energy of Michelangelo , and beauty and simplicity of the antique . |
| 13 | She wanted to kiss him , to soften him , to diminish him in some way so that she felt safer , more human . |
| 14 | ‘ The Secretary of State , in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 21(1) , ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) of the Oil and Gas ( Enterprise ) Act 1982 , and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf , hereby makes the following Order : ’ |
| 15 | He 'd helped her through a bad patch and she 'd been grateful , but she 'd never really considered him in any other light . |
| 16 | PAMELA : Well , suppose he should resolve to ensnare a poor young creature and ruin her , would you assist him in that ? |
| 17 | All personnel , military and civil , without distinction of rank will assist him in any way he sees fit . |
| 18 | She thought she had begun to know him in those intimate moments . |
| 19 | Jackson said : ‘ I told Nigel he was too thin to play rugby and that they would break him in half . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I played him in many positions and he 's never let us down . |
| 21 | She cooked his favourite meals , kept the house neat and clean , obeyed him in all things and gave herself to him willingly and frequently . |
| 22 | To begin with , they thought that the Robemaker had injured him in some unimaginable way , for the crimson mask still had him in its grip and in the flickering light , it looked for a moment as if the lower part of his face was covered in blood . |
| 23 | Was she actually planning to aid and abet him in this unexpected , meaningless sexual dalliance ? |
| 24 | In a letter to his mother he explained that ‘ seeing God had so often heard his most humble petitions , and had delivered him out of many most eminent dangers of soul and body , and had brought his family out of most desperate calamities , he should now seek to serve Him in such a calling ’ . |
| 25 | I buried him in that beautiful valley of winding waters . |
| 26 | It was n't just Frank they were looking for , if they had n't shot him already and buried him in some bog . |
| 27 | Sometimes the author 's identity is given away by some small detail reflecting a habit of expression or thought , and this seems to confirm that each writer has a linguistic " thumbprint " an individual combination of linguistic habits which somehow betrays him in all that he writes . |
| 28 | She had never seen him in such a rage . |
| 29 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 30 | After all her husband is in Venice- and she had n't seen him in all the war years , ’ he said . |