Example sentences of "have [vb pp] him in [art] " in BNC.

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1 But Mrs Thatcher has told him in the Commons the Government 's not to blame :
2 No other wave since has deposited him in the river .
3 So a new ball Lewis This his third chance Stone has found him in the end .
4 ‘ Francis has remembered him in a codicil to his Will drawn up in Nassau .
5 Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’
6 Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’
7 Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told .
8 Oh fine , yet Jo was just saying on the phone there that she 'd seen him in a catalogue .
9 Lucy reckoned that , for the man in charge , he had some staggeringly dull tasks to handle ; she 'd seen him in the stockroom once , counting every bottle in every crate of tonic water .
10 I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers .
11 It did n't hurt that much , but he pretended she 'd got him in the balls , hoping for a little wifely penitence .
12 Almost inaudible in the crush , he thanked everyone who 'd helped him in the case .
13 They 'd locked him in a dirty little hole with a bed you would n't put a dog under .
14 Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling
15 He could n't help wondering if he 'd interrupted him in the act of copulation .
16 We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime .
17 They 'd kept him in a kiosk on Brighton front day and night waiting for the Germans to invade .
18 I 'd have joined him in the Abacos if he 'd asked me , little holidays from time to time .
19 I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms .
20 Ultimately , it was all too easy for Sainz , who could afford to enjoy the scenery in yesterday 's Scottish forest stages after Kankkunnen , the only man who could have overhauled him in the world title race , lost crucial time when his Lancia hit a rock .
21 Then the man was running , and Blagg could have shot him in the back but he had only one round left .
22 Heydrich could have shot him in the head .
23 If , for example , old man Jordan had come into the kitchen at that moment , Wycliffe might have seen him in the mirror ; but what of it ?
24 Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years .
25 She might then have sought and received public assistance or have pledged her husband 's credit with tradesmen : in which case the National Assistance Board might have summoned him before the magistrates , or the tradesmen might have sued him in the county court .
26 The self-confidence inspired by his Eton and Trinity background may have helped him in the several differences of opinion he has encountered in his life .
27 Pure hackit anyhow Ah 'd never have lumbered him in the daylight .
28 That fat Cockney with his stupid tattoos and his jocular manner and his dirty jokes ; he should have dumped him in the canal !
29 Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus .
30 It would have struck him in the face if at the last moment , sensing it coming , he had not ducked his head .
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