Example sentences of "and [verb] he in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His political ideals included the concept of arbitration as a substitute for war in the settlement of national disputes , and involved him in the jingoistic disputes of 1877 . |
| 2 | The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing . |
| 3 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Why not go and see him in the proper way instead of lurking around by night ? ’ |
| 5 | She took him to herself and loved him in the mystical , supreme way she believed her mother had loved her father ; she gave him everything — her innocence , her youth , her maidenhead . |
| 6 | And then just up and shoot him in the good old British way . |
| 7 | The court had taken Harvey away from his father and put him in the foster home ‘ until such time as the father can control his drinking and make a safe home for the boy . ’ |
| 8 | Hear us now as we attempt to contact Simon 's father and help him in the great spiritual work that awaits him in this prime time of his boyhood ! ’ |
| 9 | Surely the lightning stroke of heaven should have fallen upon him and destroyed him in the very deed . ’ |