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 .
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