Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] him in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the RSPCA found him in January , he was in a starved condition , his ribs and hip bones showing through , and his back legs hardly able to support him . |
| 2 | Assistant recorder Paul Downes remanded him in custody for two weeks for a report to be prepared . |
| 3 | Aston Villa signed him in June 1986 for £200,000 and three years later Keown went to Everton in a £750,000 deal . |
| 4 | Lucy watched him in wonder . |
| 5 | From beneath lowered lashes Shiona watched him in silence , as the secretary set out their cups of coffee before them . |
| 6 | And from the moment Mr Weintraub saw him in Spain he has been in someone 's company twenty-four hours a day . |
| 7 | He sent for Eleanor to join him in Normandy and when she arrived , a message went to Richard , requiring him to surrender Aquitaine to his mother , the lawful duchess . |
| 8 | Hoskyns wanted him in Cambridge as the chaplain of his college , Corpus Christi . |
| 9 | Time and again Lear tried to tempt Gould to visit him in Rome ; always he pleaded for a letter : ‘ I am anxious to hear from you … ; |
| 10 | He has been established as a prose-character in the first scene at Achilles ' tent ( Troilus and Cressida , II.i. ) , where even Agamemnon addressed him in prose , by the law of adaptation to the lower centre of gravity . |
| 11 | The Prior of Lewes , Robert Peterson , collected a number of cathedral offices around England to keep him in comfort . |
| 12 | Rocky Mattioli , an Italian , had displaced Dagge , but Hope overwhelmed him in San Remo to take the World Boxing Council light-middleweight title . |
| 13 | Realising that the only way he could possibly fulfil his considerable potential was by going abroad , James accepted the invitation offered by the famous cricketer Learie Constantine to join him in Nelson , Lancashire . |
| 14 | Mr Aycliffe watched him in silence , his own eyes full of pity . |
| 15 | For his pains the House of Commons put him in gaol . |
| 16 | Draper interrupted him in mid-flow : ‘ I think you 're a megalomaniac , Richard . |
| 17 | Albrecht Haushofer became a friend , a very close friend , they corresponded up until the war , Haushofer visited him in Scotland . ’ |
| 18 | And on twenty five minutes , Nigel Mott got that opening goal as an excellent through ball from Paul Biddle found him in space and he placed the ball wide of the Fairmile goalkeeper Mark Carrigan ; Fairmile were not to be perturbed by this as on their half an hour Wayne Glossop went close for the home side . |
| 19 | Prior to Dinh 's visit there had been other indications that relations were improving ; the Vietnamese , for instance , had allowed the family of top-level Vietnamese defector Hoang Van Hoan to visit him in Beijing [ see p. 29876 for Hoan 's defection in 1979 ] . |
| 20 | And of course we 're pleased as Punch to put him in print again . |
| 21 | Willie watched him in horror as he picked up the wriggling worms and put them inside the tin . |
| 22 | Willa Muir saw him in America and observed , " Tom Eliot is much more human here than in England . |
| 23 | She had watched Madeleine feed him in hospital , patiently push soup between his lips . |
| 24 | Mossadeq received him in bed ; he fluttered his hands as Harriman came into the room and launched into a fluting tirade against the British . |
| 25 | I 'd listened to Gareth tell him in detail on Sunday evening . |
| 26 | Early last season , Limpar was sent off for hitting Pembridge , then at Luton , and the pair clashed again at Kenilworth Road when Pembridge put him in hospital after a clash which went unpunished . |
| 27 | Lyn left him in bed and took the car to work , promising to be back early to give him his lunch . |
| 28 | Anne hugged him in return , her face bright with happiness . |
| 29 | Earlier yesterday Mr Denktash , who heads a breakaway state in the north recognised only by Ankara , invited Mr Clerides to meet him in Cyprus and said holding talks in New York would be futile . |
| 30 | ‘ The Doctor just was n't at his best when St Jovite murdered him in Ireland and it 's taken him a while to get over that . |