Example sentences of "[verb] him in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we place him in a house . |
| 2 | The mother says that it was not a wrongful removal and that , even if it was , she has a defence under article 13 in that there is a grave risk that the return of the child would expose him to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place him in an intolerable situation . |
| 3 | Samuel Beckett We want him in a nice jail where we can keep an eye on him . |
| 4 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |
| 5 | I settled for the party in Fulham on Bunny 's recommendation , arranging to meet him in a trendy pub in Covent Garden beforehand . |
| 6 | The Office tells us that he arranged for his sister to meet him in a nearby wood and to bring with her two of her over-dresses , one white and one grey , and his father 's rainhood . |
| 7 | Again , Atrakhasis was warned , the god instructing him in a dream to build a boat , take on board his family and animals , and explain his action to his fellow men as a punishment inflicted upon him which would bring benefit to them . |
| 8 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
| 9 | He set the bowl down , then lifted the boy gently , cradling him in a half-sitting position . |
| 10 | Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told . |
| 11 | It felt good to talk about it , to describe her sense of total humiliation at having , as it were , bared herself to Matthew only to find him in a dressing gown , with some … strumpet drinking coffee with her dress half-unbuttoned . |
| 12 | Maybe someone bold enough to improvise like that would even take the risk of getting himself really knocked out and dropped in the water , knowing I could n't fail to find him in a few minutes . ’ |
| 13 | BEFORE Germany 's press caught him in a questionable stockmarket deal , Franz Steinkühler looked like a working-class hero . |
| 14 | Seb had two feet on the ladder when Melody took him by surprise and caught him in a hug . |
| 15 | They grab him in a bearhug from behind . |
| 16 | " That 'll please you , wo n't it , keeping him in a muck sweat . |
| 17 | That weekend found him in a sunny mood . |
| 18 | He found him in a comer of the hall , already half-drunk . |
| 19 | Producer Ken Hyman went in search for him and found him in a bar in Belgravia ‘ as drunk as a skunk ’ . |
| 20 | We found him in a night club with his wife , and Flynn went straight up to him and flattened him with a single punch . |
| 21 | I later found him in a dressing room with a cigarette in his hand , but he was shaking so much he could n't light it . ’ |
| 22 | She found him in a small single room that was obviously intended to be his dressing-room or study , furnished with a single bed , rows of built-in cupboards , and under the window a desk and chair . |
| 23 | In fact , he found him in a state of positive animation , in conversation with Chatterton about the dangers of travelling by public transport . |
| 24 | He found him in a couple of minutes , before he had properly left the house . |
| 25 | Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me . |
| 26 | Just cos I beat him in a race . |
| 27 | His abolition of the subject carries with it the demise of the individual as the locus of knowledge and agency , and places him in a position where , as we saw , there can be no question of compromise with individualism . |
| 28 | McKenzie , who lost his WBO bantamweight title 13 months ago when another Puerto Rican , Rafael Del Valle , stopped him in a round , will now have to consider his future after becoming Britain 's first fighter this century to win world titles at three different weights . |
| 29 | ‘ Good morning , ’ said the tailor , to this company , for he believed in good manners , and the creatures were surveying him in a judging and intelligent way . |
| 30 | The young paratrooper turned to look at me , his eyes alarmed , as if he expected somehow to see that his buddies had caught him in a moment of vulnerability . |