Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] him in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |
| 2 | When Monmouth was executed , Ken was sent for to attend him in his last hours . |
| 3 | BRITISH spy Ian Spiro left bloody fingerprints smeared on his son 's bedroom walls after blasting him in the head twice with a handgun . |
| 4 | He did n't tell her that they had brought him here unconscious after torturing him in the main building . |
| 5 | He would be moving there not only with Sara and the baby , but with Sara 's mother , their servant Nanny , and a young man called Charles Lloyd , who had fallen under Coleridge 's spell after meeting him in Birmingham . |
| 6 | The Pinneys had become devoted admirers of William Wordsworth after meeting him in London during 1795 , and had soon persuaded their father , John Pretor Pinney , that the little-used family mansion in Dorset should become Wordsworth 's temporary home . |
| 7 | Michael Pearson , 19 , of Leeds , battered 19-year-old Dean Fisher to death after meeting him in a pub . |
| 8 | ACTOR Clint Eastwood 's fan club has folded — after asking him in vain for a fistful of dollars . |
| 9 | The policeman ‘ assaulted Harold Benn , aged 27 , an amateur boxer , after stopping him in Tooting , south London . |
| 10 | Paul Keywood , 13 , and his 11-year-old brother Nathan saved the little boy 's life after discovering him in freezing conditions wrapped in only a towel . |
| 11 | Mr Sergei Shakhrai , a key Yeltsin adviser , said he was instigating legal proceedings against Mr Khasbulatov for insulting him in an interview . |
| 12 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 13 | ‘ It was n't so much the shock of seeing him in a metal cage , it was the atmosphere of the place . |
| 14 | The climax of his tale is to profess to excuse Cassio — ‘ But men are men ; the best sometimes forget ’ ( 237 ) — an extremely effective way of indicting him in the eyes of those present . |
| 15 | If your foe stoops on a ground unit and is locked in combat you 'll have a good chance of catching him in the flanks . |
| 16 | The story was that Puig-Aubert would often snatch a smoke when play was downfield , and we lived in hope of catching him in such an act of Gallic braggadocio . |
| 17 | Randy , going amazingly steady for him , had spent the fortnight screwing Trace Coley , who was as pretty as she was spoilt , because he 'd heard rumours that Kevin was thinking of including him in his team next year . |
| 18 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 19 | Because of the apprehension of a breach of the peace on the part of the inspector , it was held , there arose a duty on him to prevent a breach of the peace , and because the appellant had sought to hold the meeting in defiance of his instructions , she was guilty of obstructing him in the execution of his duty . |
| 20 | I was in favour of hauling him in last week , but the powers-that-be thought it better to let him remain at large for the time being , in the hope that he might lead us to his employers . ’ |
| 21 | Gerald Baker , a Mandan-Hidatsa Indian who is the park ranger at Fort Union Trading Post in North Dakota , once the ‘ Times Square of the plains ’ , taught Mr Frazier how to use a double-bladed throwing axe and offered him the honour of joining him in a ceremonial sweat bath . |
| 22 | Remember I thought of having him in Ireland - I wish I had . |
| 23 | The strain of having him in the club practically all the time had been hard enough . |
| 24 | Now that her son had taken over , she showed every sign of treating him in the same way , much to his discomfort . |
| 25 | And perhaps Van Dyck does n't flatter him in quite the way , flatter 's the wrong word , sort of transmutes him in the way that he often does in his very elegant and sophisticated portraits . |
| 26 | In Damascus some western diplomats argue that the Syrian army will keep out of any fighting , having achieved President Hafez Assad 's political aim of putting him in alliance with Egypt and Saudi Arabia . |
| 27 | ‘ Everyone seems scared of putting him in his place , and we feel powerless . |
| 28 | Knowing this , film-makers added the devilish touch of putting him in crocodile skin shoes . |
| 29 | He was in any case visibly touched that I should have gone to the lengths of copying the essay ; but in those days no other method of putting him in possession of it was available . |
| 30 | Having seen herself properly dressed again , she could not bear the thought of confronting him in the skimpy , shabby , ready-made clothes of wartime London . |