Example sentences of "[v-ing] him in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also had to juggle the practicalities of being coach , going on part-time high-school teaching , and seeing if Otago Cricket Association would continue employing him in the off-season as executive director when he would n't be around for much of the summer . |
| 2 | It is his letter of March 1094 to the bishop of Salisbury , instructing him in the name of himself and the king to take action about the case of the daughter of the king of Scotland , who had left the nunnery at Wilton and who — as Anselm and King William had agreed — was to be forced to return . |
| 3 | He assisted Marsh up the steps to the box and , seating him in the signalman 's battered but comfortable old armchair , reported the incident to the train control , requesting medical assistance for the unfortunate guard who was obviously unable to continue his dunes . |
| 4 | Some deep throbbing vibration seemed to be keeping him in the air , and his limbs ached . |
| 5 | I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ? |
| 6 | Fat chance , thought Leonora , unable to resist keeping him in the dark about whether Elise was going with her . |
| 7 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 8 | BRITISH spy Ian Spiro left bloody fingerprints smeared on his son 's bedroom walls after blasting him in the head twice with a handgun . |
| 9 | Examine a scene from the play where one boy creeps up on another and then springs on him stabbing him in the back with his knife . |
| 10 | As Mr Leslie had explained earlier he was completely sober and was not given to imagination , he screwed his eyes up looking for the reason for the footsteps ; he could n't see the feet but heard them quite distinctly passing him in the ballast below . |
| 11 | Catherine sounded suddenly exhausted , and as she gave him back the cup she turned towards him , letting him see that she had been crying , but without looking him in the face . |
| 12 | " You can tell him , " I said , turning and looking him in the face , " that you were entirely mistaken ; that my boss really is my boss , and that I 'm not going to have a baby . " |
| 13 | But , standing in her bathroom , with her looking at him with those lovely blue eyes , her whole soul looking him in the face , her integrity undeniable , he knew the truth . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not in ruins , ’ said Adam , looking him in the eye . |
| 15 | We saluted the Guard-Sergeant , slapping our palms down against our sides in regulation salutes , looking him in the eye and showing our leave passes . |
| 16 | ‘ The Methodists never made much headway with the Machin family , ’ said Rose , still keeping her distance and not looking him in the eye . |
| 17 | ‘ No , I do n't think I did , ’ I said , looking him in the eye . |
| 18 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 19 | He stood close to Rebus , looking down on the smaller man , fixing him in the eye . |
| 20 | Kicking him in the legs , Michael brought the podger down on Tommy 's shoulders . |
| 21 | Cuddling on the couch with your husband in front of other people is frowned upon just as much as kissing him in the street . |
| 22 | He raised them now at the two shaken women who sat facing him in the interview-room at Stowbridge police station . |
| 23 | The defendant was involved in a scuffle with a constable and was successfully charged with obstructing him in the execution of his duty . |
| 24 | Because of the apprehension of a breach of the peace on the part of the inspector , it was held , there arose a duty on him to prevent a breach of the peace , and because the appellant had sought to hold the meeting in defiance of his instructions , she was guilty of obstructing him in the execution of his duty . |
| 25 | I was accompanying him in the show anyway and I think we just had the nerve . ’ |
| 26 | By riding him in the company of a mature schoolmaster , the youngster will gain confidence from the other horse 's relaxed carriage . |
| 27 | Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent . |
| 28 | When Tessa went out of the room to see if she could help Jannie the boys turned on Bob at once with all their usual wildness , jumping up and down in his lap , punching him in the chest , and trying to pull off his shoes . |
| 29 | When my colleague had said that , with me sitting right beside him , I felt like punching him in the face ; it was that kind of attitude that any campaign would have to fight . |
| 30 | Then 17-year-old Lee Diaz , of North End Gardens , Bishop Auckland , attacked a second party-goer , Carl Gent , punching him in the face and fracturing his jaw . |