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

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1 When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim .
2 ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop !
3 I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ?
4 Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent .
5 The answer had been staring him in the face .
6 ‘ He can operate as a defender , a sweeper or a midfielder , and I 'll be using him in the midfield role .
7 Some deep throbbing vibration seemed to be keeping him in the air , and his limbs ached .
8 Mrs Prentice , had to wait until 2.20am before she knew that she would be joining him in the House , ousting Tory Energy Minister Colin Moynihan , in the process .
9 Mr Sabin 's family has been in the publishing and bookselling business since 1865 and his son Mark will be joining him in the new venture , together with David Fuller , another former Ackermann director .
10 Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come .
11 You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout .
12 But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go .
13 Indeed one might argue that talk of Jesus as our ‘ brother ’ , emphasizing his humanity , makes Jesus more intrusively male than if one were casting him in the role of the cosmic Christ .
14 Yeah i well he 's just distressed cos I think Gill 's phoning him in the morning and she said she 'd give him a lift to the hospital .
15 The Royal Bank of Scotland is suing him in the High Court to recover the money , which includes a £500,000 overdraft .
16 The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching .
17 I was accompanying him in the show anyway and I think we just had the nerve . ’
18 In 1901 he was elected to a fellowship at Caius ; among his colleagues there was ( Sir ) Ronald Fisher [ q.v. ] , who was to succeed him in the chair of genetics .
19 Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really .
20 Behind the scenes , Sir Reginald was negotiating with political leaders about the composition of the Executive Council which was to assist him in the government of the country until elections could be held .
21 Poor love , ’ she smiled faintly , ‘ he was half asleep , and at first when he heard what I had to say he thought I was leaving him in the lurch after all .
22 I was beating him in the storyline , but he was , in reality , desperate to win all the races .
23 And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark .
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