Example sentences of "[verb] he [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he stood in the middle of the road waving his arms it was only because he was hungry and wanted his dinner , now you 'll have to trundle him about in a wheelbarrow like a dead sheep , you 'll have no time for skirmishing . |
| 2 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 3 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 4 | He found him out in the garden , sitting on a wooden bench by the pond . |
| 5 | The length of these umbilicals means that , in most cases , the tender can not tend the diver in the true sense , and may not be able to pull him back in an emergency . |
| 6 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 7 | The miniature St Christopher on it had a brief treat before Sorrel cooled him off in no uncertain terms . |
| 8 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 9 | The Scot said : ‘ I was one punch away from knocking him out in the fifth and if I had n't been injured , I would have finished him . ’ |
| 10 | Well , Marcus said he 'd come and see Pat , and Ludens is driving him down in the Bentley ! |
| 11 | They existed , too , somewhere , seeking him out in every corner , and if they ever found him they would surely drag him back to the terror from which he looked forward to escaping , finally and permanently , soon . |
| 12 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
| 13 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 14 | She imagined him out in the square at that very moment concocting a plan to get into the flat again and make a thorough search . |
| 15 | They would hide all his own clothes and , having forced him to wear his sister 's , they would lock him out in the street to be chased and bullied by the neighbourhood gangs . |
| 16 | Well , that should finish him off in no time . |
| 17 | His head bent towards her and once again Jenna lifted her hands to ward him off in a panic-stricken way , but her fingers felt useless . |
| 18 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
| 19 | In addition Drury persuaded one witness to amend his evidence so as to incriminate Cooper , arranged for another to be shown a photograph of McMahon so as to pick him out in an identification parade , omitted to tell the defence of two witnesses crucial to their case , cited another as prosecution witness to prevent the defence from calling him , and bribed two prisoners in Leicester Prison , where McMahon was on remand , to say that McMahon had admitted to them his part in the crime . |
| 20 | We put him back in the sling-hammock to give him a chance to heal . |
| 21 | Let him out in the garden Willy . |
| 22 | It was behind him , lining him up in the sights . |
| 23 | Information about a person 's private and personal affairs may be of a nature which shows him up in a favourable light and would by no means expose him to criticism . |
| 24 | When his mother rigs him out in a pretty pink frock to wear to school ( ‘ What 's a frock ? ’ said my son . |
| 25 | ‘ Lock him up in an interview room . |
| 26 | Get him out in the fresh air as much as you can cos |
| 27 | He thought of the pattern of his visit so far ; the revelation of Rose McGarry 's death ; the discovery of the swan ; Jos 's warning ( had it been Jos 's strong arm holding him back in the dream ? ) ; and this most recent sign , which at the very least told him that someone had entered his room , his own sanctuary . |
| 28 | The Major encouraged him , then walked him round in a circle , conversing with him in low reassuring tones . |
| 29 | Then Charley Bates and the Dodger took away Oliver 's expensive new suit , gave him some old clothes , and locked him up in a dark room . |
| 30 | I offered , once again , to put him up in the spare room for the night , but , once again , he would n't hear of it . |