Example sentences of "have [vb pp] him in the " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
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 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |
5 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |
6 | 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 . |
7 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
8 | It did n't hurt that much , but he pretended she 'd got him in the balls , hoping for a little wifely penitence . |
9 | Almost inaudible in the crush , he thanked everyone who 'd helped him in the case . |
10 | 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 |
11 | He could n't help wondering if he 'd interrupted him in the act of copulation . |
12 | We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime . |
13 | I 'd have joined him in the Abacos if he 'd asked me , little holidays from time to time . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Then the man was running , and Blagg could have shot him in the back but he had only one round left . |
16 | Heydrich could have shot him in the head . |
17 | 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 ? |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Pure hackit anyhow Ah 'd never have lumbered him in the daylight . |
22 | That fat Cockney with his stupid tattoos and his jocular manner and his dirty jokes ; he should have dumped him in the canal ! |
23 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
24 | It would have struck him in the face if at the last moment , sensing it coming , he had not ducked his head . |
25 | He won the local Easter parade a couple of times as the best-dressed man which , in the depressed Thirties , must have put him in the mould of something of an exhibitionist . |
26 | The Resistance would have put him in the grave if the Nazis had followed them . |
27 | Her desire for such a life was so passionate , and her gratitude to Walter for this glimpse of it was so great that she could have kissed him in the street , and later that day she did in fact allow him to undo her brassiere strap without a word of protest . |
28 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
29 | It was not a pleasant emotion , but it was a powerful enough one to have sustained him in the search when evidence was lacking . |
30 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |