Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After conferring , the two signalmen decided to try and apprehend the person concerned , and after making sure that the control had been told of the situation and the boxes were safe to leave they walked towards each other , approaching the trespasser from opposite directions , so keeping him in view all the time and affording him little chance of escape . |
| 2 | Obviously , he sees Britain as the sweatshop of the world — he almost said as much — and , if we are unlucky enough to find him in office for more than a few more months , we may find ourselves taking the place previously occupied by the Soviet Union , as Upper Volta with rockets . |
| 3 | ‘ They ran sheep here in those days , so I imagine she did , if only to keep him in socks . ’ |
| 4 | Among the more comprehensive books on twentieth-century Mexican art in recent years , Shifra Goldman only mentions him in passing , Luis Cardoza y Aragón says little more than that Gironella ‘ escapes him ’ , and Ida Rodriguez Prampolini dismisses him from her discussion of Mexican surrealism as an ‘ international ’ artist , more closely related to Spain than to Mexico . |
| 5 | We 'd better have him in ITU I think . ’ |
| 6 | If so dress him in white and use sunshine soapflakes to get the dirt out . ) |
| 7 | ‘ No , I think I 'd better put him in touch with you . ’ |
| 8 | It was a disappointment for his many fans not to see him in action . |
| 9 | It certainly has no basis in the figures that I have just given him in answer to his question . |
| 10 | It was just in the process of digesting the Islamic revolution which had set the last of the Shahs , Muhammad Reza , on his unhappy way to exile , illness and death , the last finally overtaking him in Egypt . |
| 11 | I think that we shall not beat him in set battle , the Bruce taught us that , surely … |
| 12 | It does not show him in character . |
| 13 | " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations . |
| 14 | Geraldine had not seen him in pyjamas before . |
| 15 | At Heathrow I 'd been asked specifically not to tranquillise him in case of the possibility of side-effects which could have seriously affected his future stud career . |
| 16 | No well I was , I was just telling him something and I said I 'm not telling you till er ten thirty just to keep him in suspense . |
| 17 | At least by the eleventh century every king expected to recruit a part of his army by paying mercenaries , or from knights who received a fee not in land , but in cash ; though he did his best to make his great nobles provide contingents for which he did not have to pay , or ( at least in the twelfth century ) pay him in cash if they did not serve him in person . |
| 18 | being of course , is first of all find your home and while he was n't in a home he was driving the neighbours mad because he 's beginning to get confused and wander about and maintain that he has n't had his dinner when two people have already taken him in lunch , you know and the other problem is erm er er having found him a very nice home , he did n't want to go ! |
| 19 | Occasionally she stayed the night in the boiler room , and when Minton suddenly began exploding with wit , it was sometimes she who best engaged him in repartee . |
| 20 | In any case , Twoflower was delightedly taking picture after picture of people engaged in what he described as typical activities , and since a quarter-rhinu would subsequently change hands ‘ for their trouble ’ a tail of bemused and happy nouveaux-riches was soon following him in case this madman exploded in a shower of gold . |
| 21 | ‘ You will not find him in Russia . |
| 22 | Even Peter Thorneycroft , the veteran proto-monetarist of 1958 whom she had made Party Chairman , proved to be a ‘ one-nation ’ man at heart , and she was eventually to sack him in favour of a little-tried new favourite , Cecil Parkinson , the Paymaster-General . |
| 23 | He may be forced to act in a certain way out of moral considerations which still involves him in feelings of guilt and remorse . |
| 24 | But although the structure of the city still defeated him in detail , he had got his bearings well enough to know that this could not be their destination . |
| 25 | The couple said some of Timothy 's bandages had been removed and they had been relieved they could still recognise him in spite of his severe facial injuries . |
| 26 | He had reasons other than supernatural ones : Bothwell soon escaped into the Borders to cause further disturbances , twice forced his way into Holyroodhouse to plead with and simultaneously threaten the king , and once cornered him in Falkland palace . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm afraid nobody has ever seen him in church . |
| 28 | Illness permanently trapped him in Whitehaven on a rare visit in 1698 . |
| 29 | Every time I always get him in trouble in French . |
| 30 | People were always taking him in hand , hoping to reform him , to make him conform to their own self-centred ideal of what he should be . |