Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] him [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He preferred to forget about those , or to pretend to himself that ‘ the real Marie ’ had not sent that bottle crashing into the wall by his head , or hunted him down in the darkness of the tunnels . |
| 2 | Instead of front running his customer the broker/dealer may pass the information about the customer 's position to another trader , such as a local , who makes a profit and then splits the difference with the broker/dealer , or pays him back in some other way . |
| 3 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 4 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 5 | It 's pleasanter than chopping him up in little pieces . |
| 6 | Choking , he shifted one hand from his enemy to claw at his own throat , and instantly the fist that was strangling him heaved him roughly back from the edge and flung him down in safety at the foot of the wall . |
| 7 | For it is that negative role that hampers his performance and holds him back in his development . |
| 8 | Mr Chan grabbed him and lifted him out in his arms . |
| 9 | My lesson lasted about half the time of Tony 's , terminating as he was explaining the purpose of the deadman 's handle to me when a gust filled his chute and hauled him off in fine style . |
| 10 | Then Charley Bates and the Dodger took away Oliver 's expensive new suit , gave him some old clothes , and locked him up in a dark room . |
| 11 | This man 's joy at his team 's win greatly tempered his reaction at being jabbed in the chest by a vigorous old Irish American , but even he had to retaliate when Uncle Mick pulled his cap down over his eyes and shoved him back in his seat . |
| 12 | In the house , Ellwood took the old man by the shirtfront and pulled him round in a circle , then round again , as if they were playing a manic version of Ring o' Roses . |
| 13 | She took a look at this man before her and summed him up in five seconds flat : he was from the country ; he was perspiring because he was wearing his one and only suit which was too heavy for the weather ; his shoes were outrageous , huge , clod-hopping things , but at least they had been polished ; his hands were heavy , his fingers thick as sausages so he was definitely a man of the land ; despite all that , he was quite polite and well-spoken though with a strong accent that she could identify as being Scottish but from which part of Scotland she could not say ; for some reason she was quite sure he was a liar . |
| 14 | If he loses I hope he would accept it with equal good grace and if he wins I will be a good loser and help him out in the general election . ’ |
| 15 | Mr Anderson therefore gave him the Hailing Ferry in perpetuity and set him up in a shed selling chandlery to the barge owners . |
| 16 | Last of his stick to leave the C130 , Grant 's rate of descent was half again as fast as the rest , taking him past the others , and plummeting him down in a whirling corkscrew . |
| 17 | In addition Drury persuaded one witness to amend his evidence so as to incriminate Cooper , arranged for another to be shown a photograph of McMahon so as to pick him out in an identification parade , omitted to tell the defence of two witnesses crucial to their case , cited another as prosecution witness to prevent the defence from calling him , and bribed two prisoners in Leicester Prison , where McMahon was on remand , to say that McMahon had admitted to them his part in the crime . |