Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] he in " in BNC.

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1 I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me .
2 He ruled the new generation with a rod , boys who had worshipped the hero as kids and tried to emulate him in their tennis-ball pick-up games — ‘ Bags I be Washy ! ’
3 Lukic charged out and seemed to hit him in what was no more than a 50–50 challenge .
4 They bundled him into a van , tied him up and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him on fire .
5 Gordon Jackson , QC , defending , said that the accused had not plunged the knife directly into Mr Kerr nine times , but had stabbed him in the course of the struggle .
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