Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] him in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
| 2 | I see him in a white coat . |
| 3 | No it 's probably er a reaction like you do if you tickle him in a certain place they go do n't they ? |
| 4 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 5 | It really does come down to , I do n't know , I mean , every year we play it very honestly and very straight , and we push him in a position where next year , if there is a next year , I think the last time that we played it straight we got clobbered , so let's pay a little bit less , and keep a bit back for when they come round a second time round . |
| 6 | Now we place him in a house . |
| 7 | Samuel Beckett We want him in a nice jail where we can keep an eye on him . |
| 8 | We put him in a tent but he found the sensation of being , as he put it , sealed up so distressing that the idea had to be abandoned . |
| 9 | ‘ As a pup he was always asleep , so one day we put him in a pair of pyjamas and started calling him PJ . |
| 10 | We put him in a pen at a secret location within Milton keynes , and then it was a matter of leaving him alone , and thankfully this fox has adjusted to the wild . |
| 11 | We find him in a disgusting attitude of respect towards predecessors whose intellect is vastly inferior to his own . |
| 12 | And I have no doubt that it wo n't be long before we see him in a Bearcat . |
| 13 | They grab him in a bearhug from behind . |