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

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1 Inevitably , his steps led him in the end to the Corso , where the evening promenade was in progress .
2 That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them .
3 Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction .
4 What was Jesus doing when his parents found him in the Temple at the end of their search for him ?
5 General Elio offered the support of his troops to maintain him in the fullness of his rights ; at the same time the Manifesto of the Persians , signed by 96 ‘ servile ’ deputies , reached the king at Valencia .
6 An oilman offered me fifty petrodollars to blow him in the lift . "
7 In the last year of his life Carleton 's connections with the tightly knit Puritan gentry of the midlands involved him in the Puritan literary conspiracy of the Marprelate tracts .
8 The risks to his person were already great simply coming down the nearly straight avenues from the Palaţul Primaverii to the Central Committee building , but the imaginary dangers threatening him in the area to the west of the hill were too great to be contemplated .
9 The farmers ' wives indulged him in the harshness of his religious practices , never minding that he brought his own delph and cutlery and would eat only boiled eggs and bread .
10 But the sight of her in tears disarmed him in the strangest way .
11 Kick him in the bollocks kick him in the head .
12 The family lawyers contacted him in the USA .
13 When , some time later , one appeared , Owen handed the youth over to him with strict instructions to keep him in the local caracol until Owen would question him .
14 Some bullets hit him in the air and more bullets hit him as he lay on the ground .
15 Two bullets hit him in the left arm , and numerous metal fragments flew into his face , including a piece in his jaw which could never be extracted .
16 Powell has earned , the hard way , the respect that prompted a dozen jockeys to telephone him in the week before the race .
17 ‘ My men found him in the garden , not in the house .
18 The first two shots took him in the shoulder and the left chest .
19 The man was disabled eight months after the soldiers died when UVF men shot him in the back .
20 I could set the man trap at dusk and let the police interview him in the morning . ’
21 ‘ One of the patrol cameras caught him in the Frames making harvest . ’
22 Kubitsky was bringing his rifle to bear on a target which lay somewhere in the direction of the grove of trees on the river bank to Rostov 's rear , but before he could open fire three more arrows took him in the chest and he fell over backwards without a sound .
23 ‘ If a guitarist smokes a couple of weeds to get him in the mood to play no-one bats an eyelid because he 's a public entertainer .
24 On 26th May , Hunt came to see him and said that he was taking over the purchase negotiations for the Downing Street scheme , and particularly upset Pennethorne by producing one of Pennethorne 's drawings to assist him in the work .
25 The malai shoved him in the chest with his free hand but he pointed the gun at the ground behind him .
26 Both of them took turns to kick him in the mouth and eyes .
27 That master craftsman would then himself employ helpers to assist him in the completion of that contract .
28 Hundreds of people were expected to attend the service for Mr Peacock , who died in his teenage daughter 's arms minutes after UVF gunmen shot him in the back at his north Belfast house .
29 As one gunman opened fire , police marksmen shot him in the hip .
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