Example sentences of "him [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that the curiosity of Frederick I having a red beard has caused him to remain in the popular imagination : red-headed men and women have many superstitions attached to them , particularly red-headed kings . |
| 2 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 3 | In this regard it is interesting to hear him comment in The Favourite Game that ‘ deprivation is the mother of poetry . ’ |
| 4 | Further work with this family is required as Darren 's weight gain is not yet sufficient for him to thrive in the long term , but it demonstrates the intensity and the long-term nature of the help required . |
| 5 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 6 | He was , he was , th they they took him , they chained him up , and they let him loose in the local cemetery , and left him there . |
| 7 | His hands were shaking , and it was hard for him to stand in the terrible screaming wind . |
| 8 | Chamlong Simaung , the popular and charismatic Governor of Bangkok and leader of the Palang Dharma , announced on Jan. 14 that he was resigning his post to allow him to stand in the forthcoming elections in Bangkok Constituency 2 , one of the country 's most fiercely contested seats . |
| 9 | was of a description which it would be reasonable to expect him to obtain in the ordinary course of that business , and that he does that thing in good faith in the course of that business . ’ |
| 10 | After six years his father sent him to work in the bonded tea house of Sanderson Fox in London , to broaden his experience . |
| 11 | The company also insisted that he learnt a bit about the business he would soon be running , sending him to work in the busy Birmingham store for a month . |
| 12 | It may be said at once that the earlier date , adopted by the the editor of the Istanbul edition of Asikpasazade and Danismend , may safely be ruled out , not only through the evidence of Molla Yegan 's involvement with Molla Gurani but also on the basis of an anecdote about him related in the tenth volume of the history by Kemalpasazade ( d. 940/1534 ) . |
| 13 | The examples that Shklovsky 's enthusiasm for the idea makes him choose in the early essays are extremely heterogeneous , and this heterogeneity makes him come close to spoiling the unique value of his case . |
| 14 | Giannis Tzortsos is a Jehovah 's Witness , whose religious beliefs do not permit him to serve in the armed forces in any capacity . |
| 15 | Paul Taylor 's left-arm pace could be valuable at Calcutta , where the ball tends to swing , but for him to play in the first Test after barely a month of his first trip overseas would be a gamble . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ I need him to play in the same role as Mick Tait , who starts a suspension after Tuesday 's game against Stockport . |
| 17 | And he er he 'd made all that lace , well then instead of him going in the First World War and making the net which was used you see his lace trade all went . |
| 18 | If he ca n't find her at home , tell him to look in the public library in the afternoon . |
| 19 | At the end of each day , as he had done since the beginning of the autumn , Robert took him home , where Mr and Mrs Wilson petted him , fed him , and put him to sleep in the spare bedroom as if he were their own son . |
| 20 | Punctual arrival at the head of the queue which formed up by 9:15 on the January Monday morning meant for him rising in the small hours and manoeuvring a moped along frozen lanes to catch the milk train from Kingham to Paddington , but he never failed to appear . |
| 21 | I assumed it was coincidence , seeing him in Wexford , and then finding him staying in the same hotel . |
| 22 | Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in . |
| 23 | The sort of man whose head has been turned by success and left him staring in the wrong direction . |
| 24 | ‘ Just watch him go in the 200 metres . |
| 25 | It 'll make a change for him to cook in the open instead of the kitchen . ’ |
| 26 | To encourage Lewis in this direction , Eliot gave him to review in the next year Egyptian Mummies and Essays on the Evolution of Man by Elliot Smith , as well as Medicine , Magic and Religion by W. H. R. Rivers . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll have to ask the doctor , ’ she said , and left him standing in the bare corridor . |
| 28 | When they entered his rooms , in answer to his hearty ‘ Come in ! ’ they found him sitting in the broken armchair , surrounded by books , his feet comfortably supported by a small wooden stool . |
| 29 | The efforts of Rusty Conway , Chief Public Relations Officer at U.V.I. , to minimize the publicity caused by this event get him entangled in the competing empires of television and the press . |
| 30 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |