Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] him in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 2 | First , top scorer Dalien Atkinson missed the starting line-up after revolutionary oxygen chamber treatment failed to heal him in time to face his old club . |
| 3 | Trade supremo Michael Heseltine , whose supporters want to see him in Mr Lamont 's job , was even more lavish in his praise . |
| 4 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 5 | Mr Craxi , who had been unchallenged party leader for 16 years , four of them as prime minister , resigned on Thursday as judges moved to prosecute him in connection with a corruption scandal . |
| 6 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 7 | Well , Jenny needs to give him in writing what she wants to say . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to know the identity of a man , I want to reach him , I want to put him in handcuffs and read him a charge of First Degree murder . ’ |
| 9 | On Jan. 30 a draft-dodger died in hospital from a gunshot wound sustained the previous day when paratroopers tried to detain him in Vilnius . |
| 10 | Giles Hawick suddenly looked tired and McLeish felt for him , as he promised to keep him in touch with their investigations . |
| 11 | Wycliffe had scarcely spoken since leaving the hall and Scales knew him too well to try to involve him in conversation . |
| 12 | DOWNING Street insists that President-elect Bill Clinton is not angry with the British Government and so is not snubbing John Major by refusing to meet him in Washington later this month . |
| 13 | BILL CLINTON has snubbed Premier John Major by refusing to meet him in Washington later this month . |
| 14 | After Hocazade 's appointment to the kazaskerlik some years later , his father and brothers came to visit him in Edirne . |
| 15 | Your name ? ’ so fast that Creggan had to circle to keep him in sight , and could not keep a clear eye on the other one approaching from above . |
| 16 | Syncretistic vision represents the salient visible details , the hero 's Brylcreemed hair and pocketful of peanuts , rather than seeking to explain him in terms of his social and intellectual background . |
| 17 | It was believed that the latter group had agreed to support him in return for the promise of positions on congressional committees . |
| 18 | Without legal connections and with little money , he judged that progress would be easier in the provinces and went to Manchester , where he built up a mainly civil practice until Sir David Napley , Jeremy Thorpe 's solicitor , happened to see him in action . |
| 19 | Mr Pyle would like to see him in Riyadh without delay . |
| 20 | Pop having to return to Burma for another year with the Governor , and finally my going to meet him in Liverpool when he was sent home at the end of that year very sick , never to return to Burma . |
| 21 | ‘ Are you going to receive him in bed like an empress or downstairs in the drawing-room like an innocent ? ’ |
| 22 | He accused the US of attempting to destabilise him in order to revoke the Panama Canal treaty — signed by the former US president , Jimmy Carter , and the then strongman of Panama , General Omar Torrijos — under which control of the canal passes to Panama in the year 2000 . |
| 23 | I took a picture last night and put a plastic bag on and told the farmer we were n't going to put him in jail here and now . |
| 24 | Sometimes Papert 's writings and his enthusiasm for changing the structure of education seem to place him in affinity with such educational radicals as Ivan Illich and Everett Reimer , but this is misleading . |
| 25 | Jim Bowen I am I am I 've got a number I 'm going to ring him in minute . |
| 26 | They bundled him into a van , tied him up and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him on fire . |
| 27 | The discussion customarily takes place in the early evening in the Home Secretary 's room at the Commons , and is intended to keep him in touch with backbench opinion . |
| 28 | He suggested my coming to see him in Oxford in the Autumn Term . |
| 29 | He was thinking of a dark-haired and scarred soldier whom he had cuckolded and impoverished , a soldier who had sworn to kill him in revenge . |
| 30 | In the Philippines , however , President Corazon Aquino had refused to meet him in protest at congressional removal of $96,000 from the $481,000,000 in aid originally promised for 1990 . |