Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defender Ian Harold starts a three-match ban , while player-boss John Carroll is again doubtful with the Achilles injury that has sidelined him in recent games . |
| 2 | Wharton , right , says his new hobby , golf , has got him in par-fect shape to slug O'Toole — now known as Fidel Castro — and grab title glory at Elland Road later this month . |
| 3 | Where the old badger is coming from Bill Morrison 's motto in life is ‘ never volunteer , never refuse ’ , a policy which has landed him in some of the hottest seats in the profession , as he tells Julia Irvine |
| 4 | However , Mr Doe claims that the reply from the Minister has vindicated him in one of his other chief concerns , the future of the national rail timetable . |
| 5 | His subsequent career in equipment and clothing has kept him in close touch with needs , and there is no PE jargon in his down-to-earth advice . |
| 6 | Conran is convinced , too , that his experience of manufacturing in the early days has stood him in good stead as head of a retailing empire . |
| 7 | His background with the round ball has stood him in good stead in becoming one of the country 's leading goal-kickers . |
| 8 | " I think the American woman has upset him in some way , " she continued in a quiet voice . |
| 9 | When I met Kirk and started to work with him , I sort of felt I 'd known him in some other life . |
| 10 | Having known him in this country and having travelled around Israel with him , I know that he is tough and resilient . |
| 11 | They would have cast him in many a role in one of their plays . |
| 12 | Briggs , in his first race , matched the time of the senior riders on his opening lap and his finishing time would have put him in fourth place in the senior event after three laps . |
| 13 | So I must have failed him in some way , to make him not like me , as well as him failing me . |
| 14 | It was this challenge which seems to have led him in 1896 to call a meeting in Bride Street , London , of a few carefully chosen colleagues which resulted in the establishment of the International Federation of Ship , Dock and River Workers which was renamed in 1898 the International Transport Workers ' Federation . |
| 15 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 16 | Until top jockey Mark Dwyer was handed the plum ride on Jodami this season , the trainer 's daughter Anthea and her husband Patrick Farrell had partnered him in all his races . |
| 17 | This from eight-year-old Leslie who had let him in earlier . |
| 18 | The fat boy had mated him in four moves . |
| 19 | And Dieter — I 've seen him in similar clothes to the ones Alain wore yesterday , blue slacks and a white shirt . |
| 20 | A witness had seen him in deep water , shouting and waving for help . |
| 21 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 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 | Saying what they 're in er erm erm , so look , and wa watch so and so very carefully Jack I 've got him in such and such a race . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've wrapped him in one of Dad 's handkerchiefs , ’ he said . |
| 25 | George had told him in private the reason for Sarah Butler being packed off to Leeds , and he had realised then that her infatuation for George was an obsession . |
| 26 | He had been trained to recognise anybody who had served under him , or who had helped him in any way . |
| 27 | Sarah Fleming had unsettled him in more ways than one . |
| 28 | An administrative career , and after 1848 his Bonapartist background , had led him in 1852 to the important prefectorate of Bordeaux , where he had hosted the famous reception in November of that year at which Louis-Napoleon in the course of his official speech had virtually inaugurated the Empire . |
| 29 | He would have preferred , I knew , to keep them at home , but Ruth , his wife , had overruled him in that , as she did in quite a few other matters . |
| 30 | He was fretted by the thought of Kate , back at the scene of crime by now , and he felt a spurt of resentment against Dalgliesh who had involved him in this irrelevant mess . |