Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv prt] in the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He found him out in the garden , sitting on a wooden bench by the pond .
3 ‘ 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 — ’
4 They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea .
5 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 . ’
6 Well , Marcus said he 'd come and see Pat , and Ludens is driving him down in the Bentley !
7 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 ?
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 We put him back in the sling-hammock to give him a chance to heal .
12 Let him out in the garden Willy .
13 It was behind him , lining him up in the sights .
14 Get him out in the fresh air as much as you can cos
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 It 's almost impossible to put him down in the tackle , and there are few players about who you an say that .
18 He preferred to forget about those , or to pretend to himself that ‘ the real Marie ’ had not sent that bottle crashing into the wall by his head , or hunted him down in the darkness of the tunnels .
19 I usually work him in for an hour , but when I 'm riding him around in the arena before the bell goes , I 'm still thinking , ‘ How on earth am I going to get this thing up the centre line ? ’ because he 's gawping at everything , but then I give him a jolly good boot and we get on with it … ’
20 Train him up in the role of agent provocateur ? ’
21 I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round .
22 The Goblins wait until the enemy are close by , and then push the Fanatic out towards the foe , giving him a good shove to start him off in the right direction .
23 In no time at all , she was hurrying down the hallway towards the nursery , where she swept in to announce , ‘ It 's such a glorious day , Mr Turnbull , I think we 'll cut short Richard 's lessons and I 'll take him out in the sunshine . ’
24 No , I called him up in the week , in the holiday and I asked him to come to Shelley 's and he said call me back .
25 But since Rayful 's father started him off in the business with a packet of cocaine from New York , prosecutors allege that Mr Edmond has built up a vast business concern , generating sales of up to $2m ( £1.25m ) a week .
26 And although he was forced to sit out Sheffield Wednesday 's UEFA Cup tie with Kaiserslauten last night through suspension , Taylor will want him back in the fold .
27 His young rider , ‘ Wendy ’ , saddled him up , and started to trot him around in the practice ring with a number of other horses .
28 You two drag him back in the cabin and keep your eyes on him .
29 Again , in the use of spears , the Christian knight , crouched behind his kite-shaped shield , atop his massive war horse could topple a lightly armed man completely out of the saddle — and probably spear him through in the process .
30 ‘ Maybe we could fix him up in the county home , ’ he said thoughtfully after some reflection .
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