Example sentences of "he [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hazel and the others followed as best they could , with Pipkin limping and staggering behind , his fear driving him on in spite of the pain in his paw . |
| 2 | Nutty , furious , attacked him bitterly in school the next morning . |
| 3 | I particularly liked the seat , which unzips so that I can put him down in bed once asleep . ’ |
| 4 | Several drunk Britons tried to hang him one night , and would have succeeded had not a French Corporal cut him down in time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The tension in his relationship with Ricky was made worse when he began to needle him , to run him down in front of others . |
| 7 | NORTHERN Ireland Minister Michael Mates was placed on probation last night after John Major publicly slapped him down in front of MPs . |
| 8 | It was possible , therefore , so far as Hitler was specifically linked to the boycott at all , to see him only in connection with presumed justifiable action , and detached from the ‘ unfortunate excesses ’ of Party activists . |
| 9 | She could n't touch him enough in return . |
| 10 | Also on Dec. 2 Baker announced that he was appealing to the House of Lords against an Appeal Court ruling of Nov. 29 which had declared him personally in contempt of court over his decision in May to cancel the return flight to the UK of a deported Zaïrean citizen , although a High Court judge had ordered a stay on the latter 's removal . |
| 11 | When she wanted not to reply to something , she would lift her ravishing upper lip over her opened teeth in a way that put him alarmingly in mind of a horse wanting to be bridled . |
| 12 | His insights and skill have made him much in demand as a consultant . |
| 13 | For example , the man may travel to work each day by car and so carry an extra £20 with him just in case his vehicle breaks down and needs to be repaired at once . |
| 14 | I wo n't say anything to him just in case you wan na get your own at some time ! |
| 15 | They saw him just in time before the icebreaker crushed … ’ |
| 16 | He groaned and stumbled forward , almost falling against the tiled floor , but one of his courtiers caught him just in time . |
| 17 | She might have been speaking to him backwards in Swahili for all the attention he paid her explanation . |
| 18 | Embodying the alienation of the Westernized Latin-American intellectual , the protagonist of The Lost Steps , a musician resident in New York , recovers his lost identity as a man and as an artist when he undertakes an expedition to the jungles of the Orinoco , a journey that takes him backwards in time to a prehistoric world ; but his eventual return to civilization implies a recognition on Carpentier 's part that , for a twentieth-century Latin American , going back to one 's roots has to be compatible with the realities of the modern world . |
| 19 | I suppose it would have cost him more in court fees ! |
| 20 | There was a tradition that the Kha-Khan not be required to turn his back upon his people , and so they carried him facing out across the crowd , and placed him directly in front of the seat of the reclining dragon which had been the throne of Tamujin , Ancestor of the Altun , the first Kha-Khan . |
| 21 | The father cut him off in mid-sentence in his eagerness to forgive : |
| 22 | Bill says , and John cuts him off in mid-sentence by saying , ‘ I 'd really love a cup of tea right now . ’ |
| 23 | thing is , if one does in fact , they , they 'd , they 'd kick him off in fact and straight back |
| 24 | I took him home in triumph and left him overnight in the porch , intending to record his vital statistics before turning him into fish pie . |
| 25 | His hands swept over her and she curled against him willingly in spite of her fears , bringing back that same quickening of his breath . |
| 26 | As he holds him up in triumph , the lad piddles in his eye . |
| 27 | Of course he 's worth a lot of money , but you ca n't wrap him up in cotton wool . ’ |
| 28 | You can have him up in court . ’ |
| 29 | My friend Jim 's wife is in America and my other pal 's had his heart broken by a hard-hearted woman with a background like yours , who passed him up in favour of an arranged marriage . ’ |
| 30 | Let's have him up in Theatre . ’ |