Example sentences of "[verb] him into his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they had carried him into his cage that afternoon and taken him out of the carrier box in which he had journeyed for so long , he had hardly dared to look around him at the other cages . |
| 2 | He was about to bank the club 's money in London 's Old Kent Road when the men , claiming they had a gun , bundled him into his car and dumped him bound and gagged 20 miles away in Surrey . |
| 3 | What I was really doing , up there in my private darkness , while below he played my mother 's old jazz records and new ones he 'd bought , why I really went so early was to have longer imagining him into his father . |
| 4 | Similarly some measure of Pakistan 's eventual triumph was due to Imran Khan 's unconventional tactics and the confidence which he demonstrated in his leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed by slotting him into his team 's battle plan at an early stage of proceedings . |
| 5 | Alan Gibson used to put him into his alltime Gloucestershire XI : he was n't alone in that kind of praise . |
| 6 | In his letter he asked why Jekyll refused to let him into his house , and why he and Doctor Lanyon were no longer friendly . |
| 7 | Without a word she followed him into his office . |
| 8 | He strode on ahead of her , rather than waiting for her to join him as he would normally have done , and the slightly calculated rudeness had her frowning as she followed him into his office . |
| 9 | As we lower him into his pauper 's grave , we may safely assume that he does not feel seriously deprived at having to miss the Rumbelow 's Cup final or the Pilkington Glass European Badminton Championships . |
| 10 | She knew she had to let him go , but after buttoning him into his coat , she wrapped her arms tightly around him , crying almost hysterically . |
| 11 | But when he called him into his office he did n't mention this as a reason for the change . |
| 12 | Both came to the Sunday services immediately after coming along to the centre , one of the lads having a belief in Jesus but had never taken the step of repentance and asking Him into his heart , when he did his reaction was to say he felt the chains fall from him and that he believes Jesus has broken his addiction to alcohol . |
| 13 | The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name . |
| 14 | Wycliffe led him into his office and entered upon the preamble : ‘ In a murder case we have to follow every possible lead . |
| 15 | The King took him into his barge and cried , ‘ Now I know the greatest heretic in Kent ’ and showed him the letters from Canterbury . |
| 16 | The guru sent him into his hut — just a small , leaf-covered hut with a narrow door — to meditate on his parents . |
| 17 | no , he 's hard to get him into his suit trousers |
| 18 | Now simply efficient , she finished dressing him , put him into his cot and handed him his final bottle of milk of the day . |
| 19 | On his return Geoffrey should have been waiting in the wings to assist him into his pirate coat — the hook attached to the sleeve rendered it cumbersome . |
| 20 | They hoisted him into his saddle and bound him there , lying forward upon the beast 's neck with his arms lashed about it to hold him secure , and a folded cloak under his breast and cheek . |
| 21 | She follows him into his office . |
| 22 | ‘ You want to tuck them in well , ’ said Miss Maynard , as Harry immediately stopped crying and she began to demonstrate the correct way of settling him into his cot . |
| 23 | ‘ And , Brother Cadfael , see him into his cell , and if you will , come back to us . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You mean he wanted you to follow him into his profession ? |