Example sentences of "[verb] him in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WG is alleging that Alan Carr , who remained as Alkar 's chairman , overstated Alkar 's profits by anticipating payments and inflating stock , causing WG to overpay him in subsequent acquisition instalments . |
| 2 | Watching the final scenes of Jean Harlow 's last film , the ones shot after she had died , defeated him in this way . |
| 3 | I want him in this evening . |
| 4 | I was to meet him in later years , but I am sure that the reaction in the chapel of all those within earshot , and particularly of the School Chaplain himself , exactly mirrored ‘ The Guardsman who dropped his rifle on parade ’ and the man who lit his cigar before the Royal toast together with his great friend who ordered a double Scotch in the grand pump-room at Bath . |
| 5 | A further humiliation for Bush was the news that maverick Independent Ross Perot headed him in several states . |
| 6 | You may recall that I proposed earlier a scheme to do just that — namely , the registration of a new entry , but accompanied by a code known to the Registrar which would alert him in any case of attempted fraud . |
| 7 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 8 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 9 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 10 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 11 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 12 | The fat boy had mated him in four moves . |
| 13 | Manucci was wary of him , fearing and disliking him in equal proportions : |
| 14 | Even his close confidant Manning described him in later years as imprudent . |
| 15 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 16 | Subsequent parliamentary enquiries into improper electoral practices involved him in some censure and this enabled Disraeli , who never liked him , to make fresh arrangements for the management of the party in opposition . |
| 17 | Lucie , who had been calling to him all the while , unheard above the din , caught him in both arms and ran with him , up the steps and through the chapel door which Izzie was holding open . |
| 18 | And now she caught him in another gesture , but a surreptitious one this time — the quick shooting of a cuff to glance at his watch . |
| 19 | ‘ Just keeping him in good condition for you , darling . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I found him in great spirits . |
| 21 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 22 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 23 | They found him in robust mood , " his morale seemed higher than at Eighth Army HQ " and he seemed confident that he could " maintain " the " uneasy position " in Venezia Giulia " for several weeks if necessary , while negotiations proceed and decisions are taken on a government level " . |
| 24 | Nobody excelled him in that judgement , with which he united his own observations on nature , the energy of Michelangelo , and beauty and simplicity of the antique . |
| 25 | She wanted to kiss him , to soften him , to diminish him in some way so that she felt safer , more human . |
| 26 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 27 | ‘ The Secretary of State , in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 21(1) , ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) of the Oil and Gas ( Enterprise ) Act 1982 , and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf , hereby makes the following Order : ’ |
| 28 | She helped him in other ways also — she was a chauffeuse on occasions , tended him when he was ill , and sometimes acted as a secretary . |
| 29 | After having a challenge for the domestic middleweight title demolished by Bunny Sterling who stopped him in eight rounds , Hope once more returned with a vigorous sequence of wins culminating in a challenge for the world light-middleweight title held by Eckhard Dagge in Berlin . |
| 30 | Pedro Almodóvar used him in five films . |