Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] he in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I decided to telephone him in the hope that he was still soothing his habitual hangover with buckets of orange juice , followed by gallons of coffee . |
| 32 | Knowing that this particular subordinate is sensitive to criticism , you decide to reprimand him in the open-plan office where many of his colleagues at neighbouring desks will hear what is going on . |
| 33 | Doctors fought to save him in the days afterward . |
| 34 | I should prefer to watch him in the primeval forests of his native land , wielding an axe against some giant tree . |
| 35 | On hearing that Harry wished to go up to Melton Mowbray for the day , he offered to drive him in the Bentley . |
| 36 | She lashed out suddenly with her crop , intending to hit him in the face . |
| 37 | Both their voices were low ; they did n't really mean to include him in the conversation , and it was noisy in the room ; people laughed and shouted , the music next door had been turned up . |
| 38 | If you went to see him in the '60s and you go and see him now , it 's pretty much the same ; he holds true and keeps his tradition . |
| 39 | For she had had vivid dreams — dreams in which he was dead and she had gone to see him in the T'ang 's Great Hall , laid out in state , clothed from head to foot in the white cloth of death . |
| 40 | If they chose to greet him in the street , he did not acknowledge them . |
| 41 | Norton 's Coin 's participation in the race was something of a mistake , for Sirrell Griffiths had wanted to run him in the Cathcart Challenge Cup on the same day of the Cheltenham meeting , only to discover that the horse was ineligible . |
| 42 | This time Holy Foley faces the John Upson-trained course and distance winner Some Obligation and will be hard pressed to overturn him in the Ludlow Hunters ' Chase today . |
| 43 | This is the same young man who bit the ear of the governor — and we can only meet and get to know him in the novel itself . |
| 44 | She lived in Paris , he at Croisset ; he would n't come to the capital , she was n't allowed to visit him in the country . |
| 45 | The girls were allowed to visit him in the clinic . |
| 46 | He grabbed Rohmer by the arm and swung him around so that he was forced to look him in the face . |
| 47 | But there 's a big question mark over whether they could afford to keep him in the Third Division . |
| 48 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
| 49 | WPC Ackland is hot on his trail — but for some reason never manages to catch him in the act . |
| 50 | By the end of the reign it was already falling off , and while Henry VI had much noble support for his coronation expedition in 1430–1 , those who continued to serve him in the French war in the years to come constituted a relatively small group of men . |
| 51 | He tipped up her chin so she had to look him in the eyes but she pulled her face away . |
| 52 | Their theme was simplicity itself : the precentor wished to become a monk ; the bishop wished to retain him in the service of the cathedral . |
| 53 | They wo n't continue to keep him in the Tower . |
| 54 | ‘ He ran well from a bad draw when beaten about four lengths at Redcar recently and I am hoping to run him in the Portland Handicap at Doncaster . ’ |
| 55 | So I smiled nervously and slammed him in the mouth with the metal box , trying to kick him in the groin as he sagged , but his heavy overcoat protected him well . |
| 56 | Desperately she kicked backwards like a buck rabbit , trying to get him in the groin . |
| 57 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |
| 58 | She had aimed to hit him in the eye , what else ; just back from the V.D. clinic . |
| 59 | I have to sit him in the bath and |
| 60 | But Iago 's ‘ practice ’ is so assured , his control of surface and perspective so total , that we have to put him in the highest class of hypocrites , along with Satan . |