Example sentences of "we [vb base] him in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It really does come down to , I do n't know , I mean , every year we play it very honestly and very straight , and we push him in a position where next year , if there is a next year , I think the last time that we played it straight we got clobbered , so let's pay a little bit less , and keep a bit back for when they come round a second time round . |
| 2 | If , now , we place him in the pantheon of Afro-Asian leaders who decisively influenced the course of events it is because he was a survivor , to whom the drama of revolutionary struggle was an end in itself . |
| 3 | Now we place him in a house . |
| 4 | Samuel Beckett We want him in a nice jail where we can keep an eye on him . |
| 5 | When he does , we await him in force , with say , a dozen grenadiers , and make the arrest . ’ |
| 6 | We put him in a tent but he found the sensation of being , as he put it , sealed up so distressing that the idea had to be abandoned . |
| 7 | ‘ As a pup he was always asleep , so one day we put him in a pair of pyjamas and started calling him PJ . |
| 8 | We put him in a pen at a secret location within Milton keynes , and then it was a matter of leaving him alone , and thankfully this fox has adjusted to the wild . |
| 9 | From his letters and his wife 's memoirs we picture him in cheap cafés hunched up in his greatcoat over a cup of coffee , with Russian and European newspapers spread about him . |
| 10 | We seek him in prayer . |
| 11 | We may get more from Dr. Bonnard when we question him in depth . |
| 12 | We find him in a disgusting attitude of respect towards predecessors whose intellect is vastly inferior to his own . |
| 13 | During this period we find him in conflict with races who were very different to the Franks : the Slavs and Avars in the east and the Saracens in the south and west . |
| 14 | We follow him in treating these aspects of the life course as a moral career , since they are concerned with a person 's reputation , a kind of continuous summing up of his life in terms of what sort of person he is supposed by his fellows to be . |
| 15 | We assist him in this task and some might , because of that , categorise us as musicians . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We , Your Excellency , are not the only ones who make sure we do n't lose the quarry once we have him in our sights . |
| 17 | It contradicts and condemns us in our pride , our self-sufficiency , our ethics , our politics , and our religion which , far from being our point of closest access to God , is the house we build in order to hide ourselves from him , to convince ourselves that we have him in our control . |
| 18 | We are excited as a group in knowing God has called us to India but we realise how much we need Him in order for us to be effective . |
| 19 | And I have no doubt that it wo n't be long before we see him in a Bearcat . |
| 20 | When he does emerge we see him in the company of his mother . |