Example sentences of "[vb past] him in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only nine days ago he lost the Macartney and Dowie Classic when Douglas defeated him in the semi-final , and the loss of another title today could be extremely damaging to morale . |
| 2 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 3 | But Garvey , 40 , has brought a private prosecution against Carr , 33 , alleging Carr assaulted him in the same incident in Middlesbrough Town Hall in October . |
| 4 | When Craft and Stravinsky visited him in the autumn of this year , Craft has recorded how he looked " younger and livelier " than he had before , but that he seemed " to think of himself as a hoary ancient with little time left . |
| 5 | Two months later Minton visited him in the country , pale from a pub crawl in Ipswich , and seemed to Lehmann ‘ more settled with Rickie [ sic[ off the booze ’ . |
| 6 | His family visited him in the cells before leving the court . |
| 7 | Dignam used to joke about how his priestly teacher , a devotee of the classical drama , invariably cast him in the leading roles of Shakespeare 's heroines , Portia , Juliet , and Ophelia among them . |
| 8 | But the sight of her in tears disarmed him in the strangest way . |
| 9 | On that occasion , Richard Dorment , a critic not noted for exaggeration , described him in The Daily Telegraph as the most inventive sculptor since Picasso , and this new exhibition promises to be one of the season 's notable achievements . |
| 10 | In 1981 , when Johnstone was still part of the furniture at Ibrox , Bill McMurdo and a local architect Bob Waugh involved him in the launch of Box Office Promotions ( UK ) Ltd a sports and leisure company which aimed to profit from Johnstone 's popularity in the Lanarkshire area . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She caught him in the hall as he put on his hat . |
| 13 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 14 | Joe started when Harry 's elbow caught him in the ribs as he said , ‘ I wonder if my illustrious brother will be as insufferable as he was during the Christmas holidays ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ One of the patrol cameras caught him in the Frames making harvest . ’ |
| 16 | When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye . |
| 17 | Maud caught him in the doorway of his hotel one evening . |
| 18 | Julie swung the hammer with all her strength and caught him in the mouth with its gleaming head . |
| 19 | He gasped with pain as the head of the smaller boy caught him in the stomach . |
| 20 | A chill caught him in the stomach . |
| 21 | A cops and robbers chase through the docks with our official mini caught him in the act of phoning home , where we arrived just in time to stop his wife disposing of a large bag of goodies . |
| 22 | And someone — someone from close by , someone on or near this site — caught him in the act , and took drastic action . |
| 23 | A handful of what he thought was heather thatch caught him in the face , but it was n't : a corn-stack had been pushed over and some of the netting had burst . |
| 24 | The Yak banked again , came in fast , cannon shell punching into the Stork and Farber cried out as a bullet caught him in the shoulder . |
| 25 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 26 | His first book , the collection of stories entitled Goodbye , Columbus , fixed him in the popular mind , from 1959 , as an ‘ enemy of the Jews ’ — a condition aggravated by the onanistic bravura and scandalous mad success of the grotesquely imaginative Portnoy 's Complaint ( 1969 ) , and not much improved in recent years by The Counterlife ( 1987 ) , in which various escapes from Jewish America , including an escape to Israel , are projected , and in which Zuckerman and his dentist brother Henry are both imagined to have ailing hearts and to undertake gruesome surgery in order to restore the sexual potency suspended by their medication . |
| 27 | Easter Day 1945 found him in the darkness of a cattle truck in a German railway tunnel ; there was a true resurrection moment when prisoners were allowed out in to the sunshine and flowers of the railway cutting . |
| 28 | The 18th found him in the custody of two Maidenhead cavalry officers who took him back to Reading . |
| 29 | ‘ Mr Marsh , I wonder if I might accept your offer of help , ’ she said when she found him in the vestry . |
| 30 | What was Jesus doing when his parents found him in the Temple at the end of their search for him ? |