Example sentences of "[to-vb] him in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were ranked to meet him in the misty rain , every soul from castle and clachan , fidgeting and nervous , and in front of them all Marion Aluinn , eager to break the tense silence , lovely in her excitement . |
| 2 | I have got to try to outbowl him in the early matches because there is a good chance we may go into the Tests with only one spinner . |
| 3 | Orders were sent to no fewer than four squadrons to try to engage him in the Irish Sea or , as a last resort , to intercept him off Brest on his way home ; but in the event none of them was needed for he was caught , almost by chance , near Kinsale on the southern coast of Ireland at daybreak on 29 February 1760 , by three frigates which had taken refuge there during the recent storm . |
| 4 | Smallfry always threatened to lock him in the toolshed with Rosie if ever he dared tell her secrets to anyone else . |
| 5 | Though the former England winger yesterday insisted he was content to remain with Leicester City , the club he joined from Darlington last summer , it is understood that moves are already underway to install him in the vacant Roker job . |
| 6 | By the end of the reign it was already falling off , and while Henry VI had much noble support for his coronation expedition in 1430–1 , those who continued to serve him in the French war in the years to come constituted a relatively small group of men . |
| 7 | I am going to play him in the remaining reserve games so that I can get a good look at him . |
| 8 | The world champion may not be worried about the £500 fine handed out for throwing the last game of his bizarre straight-games loss to Jahangir Khan in the final of last month 's Stuttgart Open , but he should be more concerned at the zero computer points assigned him for the Stuttgart tournament , which may enable Jahangir to overtake him in the New Year rankings , plus the fact that any further misdemeanour will probably mean draconian punishment . |
| 9 | When , some time later , one appeared , Owen handed the youth over to him with strict instructions to keep him in the local caracol until Owen would question him . |
| 10 | Before the album 's release will come a single , ‘ Your Loss My Gain ’ , that 's neither particularly immediate or commercial and so makes a surprising choice to re-establish him in the public domain . |
| 11 | I should prefer to watch him in the primeval forests of his native land , wielding an axe against some giant tree . |
| 12 | In 1318 , after an attempt to poison him in the previous year , John XXII thanked Margaret for sending him ‘ a certain knife-handle in serpentine form ’ which was reputed to detect poison . |
| 13 | Mark Hazell has been granted a judicial review of Avon County Council 's decision not to place him in the residential home of his own choosing , Milton Heights in Oxfordshire . |
| 14 | On one occasion , when George Brown was to give a seminal broadcast on a new financial plan , Wigg , who had been assigned by the Prime Minister to ensure , or to endeavour to ensure , that Brown arrived at Broadcasting House respectably sober , could think of nothing better to do than to consign him in the early afternoon to the sitting-room in my flat at Ashley Gardens . |
| 15 | ‘ I have the powers to make whatever inquiries I think fit and also , if necessary , to examine him in the Federal Court , ’ said Mr Ramsay . |
| 16 | His idea of duty took the form of inviting Neil to join him in the nightly round of enjoyment which made up Stair 's life . |
| 17 | Knowing that this particular subordinate is sensitive to criticism , you decide to reprimand him in the open-plan office where many of his colleagues at neighbouring desks will hear what is going on . |