Example sentences of "him [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having looked at the growing success of the Editing for Industry awards and noted the fact that Alan Peaford was due to step down after a three-year stint in the chair , I decided to ask him to continue in the post for my year of office . |
| 2 | He pulled the door to behind him — he was reasonably certain there was nothing for him to see in the engine-room anyway — and stooped to examine the three dead men . |
| 3 | Olga heard him singing in the bathroom and shouted that supper would be ready in a few minutes . |
| 4 | ‘ Unfortunately , it is difficult for him to paint in the house in Leeds because we do n't have the space and we do n't have the light . |
| 5 | There was a puff of white smoke from the highwayman 's gun , and the horse of the man riding towards him reared in the air . |
| 6 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
| 7 | Julian left him lurking in the shelter of the cart-house while she kept watch from the wicket for the most favourable moment , and beckoned him through quickly when the alley was empty . |
| 8 | But the odds appear to be stacked against him appearing in the Battle of Britain Part II , at Elland Road . |
| 9 | When they reached the Watermen , Mary and Ruth would n't let Ernest into the kitchen , but made him wait in the bar . |
| 10 | A huge bronze statue commemorating him stands in the Town House Square in front of a thirteenth-century residential tower , renovated and given a dome roof in the early nineteenth century . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know no more , except that I helped him to hide in the hayloft . |
| 12 | ‘ They see him walking in the street late at night . |
| 13 | I had an actor once who was condemned to hang for stealing a sheep — or a lamb , I forget which — so I got permission to have him hanged in the middle of a play — had to change the plot a bit but I thought it would be effective , you know — and you would n't believe it , he just was n't convincing ! |
| 14 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |
| 15 | Not even as f far as getting him to work in the morning . |
| 16 | Yanto recalled him boasting in the pub that ‘ be prepared ’ had been his motto ever since leaving the boy scouts . |
| 17 | His Jamaican parents gave him absolutely no encouragement in sport and little more in education yet his school teachers exerted often crude pressures on him to participate in the school athletics and football teams . |
| 18 | ‘ The terrible stress and strain of his job and the society 's problems were factors which sadly led him to behave in the way he did . ’ |
| 19 | An off-duty cop spotted him slumped in the driver 's seat fumbling to find the ignition button to start the trip to Penzance . |
| 20 | Afterwards , Angelo Dundee , who had trained Ali from the start and had to be talked into showing up for this one , watched him slumped in the dressing-room , then turned away and rubbed his eyes as certain people tried to convince Ali that he had been robbed and that a fourth title was still possible . |
| 21 | Alan left him howling in the cot again while he went for a bowl of water . |
| 22 | ‘ Later , I went to watch him sparring in the ring . |
| 23 | They ran over Mr Letts and left him lying in the road with serious internal injuries . |
| 24 | If in the end we wish to locate God in the destruction of Jericho , should we not search for him lying in the dust with the rest of his people of that city , like them hacked to pieces ? |
| 25 | She turns her back to him to look in the mirror beside the cherrywood armoire . |
| 26 | Tell him to look in the dictionary . |
| 27 | He spurred forward , sword raised , then a shout from his rear made him twist in the saddle . |
| 28 | She was never as strict as his Dad and she did n't like him getting in the way in the waiting-room . |
| 29 | She has to know how to deliver appropriate information to the patient , to overcome the neurological deficit which is the result of the brain damage , and to help him react in the way she wishes by producing carefully controlled movements . |
| 30 | President Fernando Collor de Mello resigned on Dec. 29 as impeachment proceedings against him began in the Senate . |