Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | With a shrill yelp she nipped him in the hind leg and he shot away in alarm . |
| 32 | We rode him in a rubber snaffle with a cavesson noseband and provided you did not pull at him , he was as light as a feather . |
| 33 | We rode him in a rubber snaffle with a cavesson noseband and provided you did not pull at him , he was as light as a feather . ’ |
| 34 | Samuel Beckett We want him in a nice jail where we can keep an eye on him . |
| 35 | We find him in a disgusting attitude of respect towards predecessors whose intellect is vastly inferior to his own . |
| 36 | Then we dressed him in a new outfit and persuaded him to reveal his own short beard instead of the fake white one . |
| 37 | I know it was a lie , but at six years old I felt that a close relative should be the one to tell him in a quiet way . |
| 38 | Lionan , the dandy , was talking behind his hand to the brutal Mullach , who was gulping his beer moodily and staring at the serving maids as they passed him in a bustling procession . |
| 39 | Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me . |
| 40 | They told him in no uncertain terms that he could not take a holiday whenever he felt like it . |
| 41 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 42 | Even if they locked him in a dark cell and pulled out all his teeth with rusty pliers , he must keep his promise to Sweetheart and tell them nothing . |
| 43 | Dennis had given us a rough time in the previous two Tests and so I started to chat to him to get him in a favourable mood for when it was our turn to bat . |
| 44 | They catch any gay guy with AZT , they throw him in the federal penitentiary like Jimmy fucking Cagney , and then they throw us out of the country . |
| 45 | ‘ Hugo Brassard 's asked her to join him in a new agency . |
| 46 | Frankie could not be one of them , yet he feared in his hear that it might be true , because when she called him ‘ Nigger ’ it wounded him in a special way he did not really understand . |
| 47 | ‘ You may perhaps gain the kingdom of heaven by your prayers , ’ he told him in an unkind moment , ‘ but never the kingdom of Great Britain . ’ |
| 48 | It establishes him in a special relationship with God . |
| 49 | And then he turned over and saw the empty crumpled pillow beside him , and it hit him in a great wave . |
| 50 | ‘ Then he called him in a loud voice , and said to me , ‘ I think John Bunyan must be deaf . ’ |
| 51 | Lovelock sees this dual function as a vital bridge , but others argue that it puts him in an invidious and altogether too powerful position . |
| 52 | For a moment Seb had forgotten his sprained ankle but it reminded him in no uncertain fashion when he tried to put his full weight on it . |
| 53 | Though he was later subtly dismissive of the assembly , he undoubtedly appreciated its value at the time , not least for the good publicity it gave him in the British and American press . |
| 54 | It left him in a jealous rage and he wrongly accused his 47-year-old wife of having an affair . |