Example sentences of "[verb] he in [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Even if he did win , the owner would buy him in after the race , so that Boardwalk would have paid back a small fraction of his training costs .
2 We try and slip him in on the sly when we think we 've got them hooked .
3 But had n't he thought that Spiderglass would save him somehow , plug him in to the endless dance of electrons ?
4 She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions .
5 Jack filled him in on the scanty information they had already obtained .
6 I 've put the belt in for when he 's bad and I 've sewn him in for the winter .
7 It could have been the assurance of that privacy and , perhaps , the promise of food which had persuaded him in from the cold .
8 Oh , I 've got him in at the play school you see , starts play school after Easter
9 He referred to the policy of separate development as ‘ apart-hate ’ in his first few letters , until somebody must have clued him in on the correct spelling .
10 Vologsky punched out a sequence on the computer panel , which automatically locked him in to the local frequency .
11 And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known .
12 She turned her head towards the servant who had just hurried to let him in to the audience-chamber , and put out an imperious hand to arrest his attention .
13 Sex appeal swung him in to the White House
14 She can nae take him in to the dentists till she gets rid of them .
15 I called him in from the garden . ’
16 She waved him in to the sitting-room , and Piers looked up as they entered , his eyes expressionless as he took in the identity of the visitor .
17 She had him by the hand by then , and was drawing him in to the hearth , for the early November mist was on his shoulders , and his face looked thin and cold .
18 And she went on briskly , springing into instant and efficient comprehension : ‘ Well , come on , bring him in to the fire , quickly !
19 Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals .
20 Llewelyn was close in his chamber with his chaplain-secretary and Ednyfed Fychan over the dictation of letters , and his seal was already on the credentials of the envoys who were to represent him in Shrewsbury ; but David , when he heard what the messenger had to report , on his own authority brought him in to the conference and shattered it .
21 We could 've done it really , but it kept him in with the people like and er .
22 The only thing left to do was to get him in to the government hospital seventeen miles away , so we set out across the rice fields and village tracks , with the patient in a bullock cart .
23 But on what grounds will a teacher identify a pupil as F , and put him in for the F exam ?
24 He looked around for someone who would fill him in on the gossip .
25 I do n't know if she will or not , but I 'm going to do it , it 's Wednesday morning I could put him in to the , to the creche at the same time
26 They 'd piled him in with the dead , and it was only later a naval ensign noticed him twitching .
27 The bravest of the brave : Fullback Jim Staples prepared to clear his lines as All Black skipper Sean Fitzpatrick — who lost the best part of two of his front teeth to an Irish fist — hems him in during the record 59–6 loss to New Zealand in Wellington .
28 ‘ When my youngest son was born , we clocked him in to the second .
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