Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] he in " in BNC.

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1 If he had known his man , and cared for what he knew , he could have battered Albany 's son and heir into surrender , instead of hauling his horse off from crushing or smothering him in the mud .
2 He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends .
3 It was her apartment , paid for with her own money , and she did n't need or want him in her life any more .
4 If you decide at the end of the day the thing to do is to pick up this kid and run like hell for somewhere you can gain , wave for help , or put him in the car and drive like mad to the hospital , then you might just do that , even though it breaks all the golden rules of first aid
5 What the charity groups think of him is hardly going to make or break him in the operatic world . ’
6 No they could keep in power or remove him in turn as the say fit .
7 As I have already made clear , the issue in that case concerned the second decision which the Secretary of State has to make , whether to release the prisoner at the end of his tariff period or to detain him in custody .
8 She now hopes that the world will no longer expect to see her on the arm of her husband , hugging or kissing him in public , behaving like a loving wife .
9 I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in .
10 She did n't want to think about Timothy Gedge , to dwell on him or to consider him in any way whatsoever .
11 A definition of that sort might allow the person addressed to take into account the fact that the person making the utterance was seeking to make a serious point , or engage him in reasoned discussion , or was acting unintentionally .
12 He would quite willingly lay aside his own business in order to take Hayward to a party , or wheel him in a park .
13 Assaulting a constable , or obstructing or resisting him in the execution of his duty are all specific statutory offences .
14 ‘ in the felonious taking of money or goods of any value from the person of another , or in his presence , against his will , by violence or putting him in fear .
15 Neither the personal circumstances of the patient nor a speculative answer to the question ‘ What would the patient have chosen ? ’ can bind the practitioner in his choice of whether or not to treat or how to treat or justify him in acting contrary to a clearly established anticipatory refusal to accept treatment but they are factors to be taken into account by him in forming a clinical judgment as to what is in the best interests of the patient .
16 He added : ‘ I never struck him with my fists or kicked him in the face when I was in a standing position . ’
17 I 've seen the man 's face actually resting on the foot of the horse ; but never at any time the horse stand on him , tramp on him or damage him in any way .
18 He seemed far away from Ruth , in a trance whose nature she could only guess at — but free , she thought , of the despair and anger that beset him in their own world .
19 Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms .
20 The fate that befell him in the 1956 Grand National booked him a permanent place not only in the reminiscences of racing folk but in the British national memory .
21 It was a move that sealed him in Mrs O'Neill 's affections : he now brought her free ice-cream as well as the traditional Rocky Road .
22 DEREK RANDALL , Nottinghamshire 's former England batsman , is recovering from a cartilage operation to cure knee trouble that hampered him in the closing stages of the season .
23 For the ‘ Banality ’ show , Koons created a startling series of ads that showed him in four flagrantly artificial settings .
24 He uses another shabby character , Tigg , to do his scrounging for him , he himself being ‘ of too haughty a stomach to work , to beg , to borrow , or steal ; yet mean enough to be worked or borrowed , begged or stolen for , by any catspaw that would serve his turn ; too insolent to lick the hand that fed him in his need , yet cur enough to bite and tear it in the dark ’ .
25 The Friar broke off a young oak bough and waved it about his sweating forehead to keep off the flies that followed him in wavering clouds , a floating band of skirmishers that his ceaseless counter-attacks could not drive away .
26 If there ever was a body , Henry Hippisley took the secret to his grave — oblivious of the rumour and revilement that surrounded him in his final years — and fortunately for him , died of natural causes .
27 Hear us now as we attempt to contact Simon 's father and help him in the great spiritual work that awaits him in this prime time of his boyhood ! ’
28 This darkness and this cloud is betwixt thee and thy God , and telleth thee that thou mayest neither see him clearly by light of understanding , nor feel him in sweetness of love in thine affection , and therefore shape thee to bide in this darkness as long as thou mayest , crying after him that thou lovest …
29 The perspective of the poem follows its language , tumbling suddenly into a burst of passion and emotion as the poet struggles to observe the forces that buffet him in the heart of his mind .
30 He still does n't know the exact reason for the problem that kept him in care for a week — more tests are planned at the end of next month — and which has prevented him from going back to Stamford Bridge , where his coaching has transformed the fortunes of London 's Cinderella club .
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