Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [v-ing] him in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story was that Puig-Aubert would often snatch a smoke when play was downfield , and we lived in hope of catching him in such an act of Gallic braggadocio . |
| 2 | Gerald Baker , a Mandan-Hidatsa Indian who is the park ranger at Fort Union Trading Post in North Dakota , once the ‘ Times Square of the plains ’ , taught Mr Frazier how to use a double-bladed throwing axe and offered him the honour of joining him in a ceremonial sweat bath . |
| 3 | In Damascus some western diplomats argue that the Syrian army will keep out of any fighting , having achieved President Hafez Assad 's political aim of putting him in alliance with Egypt and Saudi Arabia . |
| 4 | If your foe stoops on a ground unit and is locked in combat you 'll have a good chance of catching him in the flanks . |
| 5 | Lewis added : ‘ Bowe 's stripping has robbed me of the chance of beating him in the ring . |
| 6 | ‘ It was n't so much the shock of seeing him in a metal cage , it was the atmosphere of the place . |
| 7 | Now that her son had taken over , she showed every sign of treating him in the same way , much to his discomfort . |
| 8 | He was in any case visibly touched that I should have gone to the lengths of copying the essay ; but in those days no other method of putting him in possession of it was available . |
| 9 | Having seen herself properly dressed again , she could not bear the thought of confronting him in the skimpy , shabby , ready-made clothes of wartime London . |
| 10 | I was in favour of hauling him in last week , but the powers-that-be thought it better to let him remain at large for the time being , in the hope that he might lead us to his employers . ’ |
| 11 | The strain of having him in the club practically all the time had been hard enough . |
| 12 | Knowing this , film-makers added the devilish touch of putting him in crocodile skin shoes . |
| 13 | The climax of his tale is to profess to excuse Cassio — ‘ But men are men ; the best sometimes forget ’ ( 237 ) — an extremely effective way of indicting him in the eyes of those present . |