Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] him [adv] in " in BNC.
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1 | I met him briefly in 1963 at a poetry reading given in Tokyo at the American Center by James Dickey . |
2 | These were the questions I wanted to put when I sought him out in France . |
3 | When the fellow returned I entertained him here in the manor house . |
4 | I beat him once in the 1988 Olympics and I know I can beat him again . ’ |
5 | ‘ I found him sometimes in a sort of energized depression ’ , said Shaffer . |
6 | anyway he went to the toilet , went a wee and I put him back in bed and he was laid there and anyway and , and he eventually dropped off , anyway I was telling my mum about it yesterday , and I did n't sort of think no more of it the next day , right , and mum I said well if ever he gets that again she said you should from the doctor she said , because , one of our boys had it she said and it was a blockage |
7 | I owe him much in this regard and shall always be grateful for the interest and encouragement he gave to me on his visits to our school , in particular the visit he paid only a year ago when he addressed my staff and helped them all by his understanding and the depth of his practical knowledge and experience . |
8 | I hit him again in the same place , a little harder . |
9 | I watched him carefully in the next few days . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course . |
12 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
13 | Once , I saw him out in his nightshirt . |
14 | But if , as in the present case , all he can say is : ‘ I saw him once in Peckham High Street and someone told me his name was Joseph Fergus ’ then there is obviously a weak link in the case : how is it to be shown that the accused is the same man that was pointed out to the witness as Fergus ' ? |
15 | I saw him once in his State robes ; then , to his highly impressionable nephew , he seemed more than human . |
16 | I looked him square in the face . |
17 | I looked him straight in the eye . |
18 | Then , at last , I looked him straight in the eyes . |
19 | I looked him straight in the eye . |
20 | I took him home in triumph and left him overnight in the porch , intending to record his vital statistics before turning him into fish pie . |
21 | I sent him right in the opposite direction . |
22 | I bent down and turned him until I had my hands under his arms , his back towards me , and I floated him along in the water to the steps and there strained to pull him up them and out onto the grass . |
23 | I put him back in his stable again , complete with an enormous amount of bandaging and went home to wait for my vet to phone with the results of the x-rays . |
24 | If I oppose him now in this , he will only return to it after my death . |
25 | I shut him up in my cellar with all he needed for painting and a bottle of cognac , and my maid , who was a very pretty girl , served as his model . |
26 | ‘ The break came , ’ she recalled , ‘ one night when I answered him back in an ad-lib . |
27 | We are going back to 1978 , maybe I was a bit vain and thought the world revolved around me , but it was my way of motivating myself , and it worked with Archie Gemmill , every time I played him after that I kicked him up in the air . ’ |
28 | His hands were everywhere , so I kicked him hard in the ankle and told him exactly where to go . |
29 | and er I picked him , I picked him up in the road and you see I just told him , I says oh I says , you 're the very man I 'm , I 'm looking for . |
30 | ‘ I patched him up in record time by the roadside . |