Example sentences of "they [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord . |
| 2 | Then he knows that they fear him more than dishonour . |
| 3 | He is consistent and they esteem him , he is firm and they fear him |
| 4 | They revealed he had been seriously injured in a knife attack at his home four months earlier and had urged them to drop their inquiries . |
| 5 | Then he slipped into a deep sleep , and all at once the warm feeling of happiness deserted him and his stomach heaved as he recognised the same old nightmare returning : the walk along the jetty , the cruel hands dragging him to the edge , the utter helplessness as they lowered him into the icy water , the wave that broke over his head — and at last , that terrible choking sensation . |
| 6 | They met him and agreed to pay him an extra £10,300 at £575 per flat to ensure that he continued with the work and completed on time . |
| 7 | They met him once unexpectedly , further up the stream . |
| 8 | They met him , but he began to feel it was because he paid , they had stopped protesting , they let him offer , explaining his luck , apologising for it , for the suit he had bought , for the new shirts . |
| 9 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 10 | I think that 's an implication of what they were accusing him of , but were they bringing him to trial for . |
| 11 | The other prisoners gasped because they expected him to be shot on the spot . |
| 12 | But to have a trolley they needed money , their father 's money , and when Patsy suggested the idea to him , their father laughed and asked them where they expected him to find that sort of money . |
| 13 | At each stop they would take one side of the street each and he could not help notice the disappointment on people 's faces if they got him rather than her . |
| 14 | ‘ He helped Mr Benson into the basket and they got him out , ’ said a national park spokeswoman . |
| 15 | ‘ They got him to hospital , but then he had a second attack . |
| 16 | Towards the end , and no doubt full of beef and beer , they got him on to his feet ; but despite encouraging shouts he was speechless . |
| 17 | Well bracksy and dead 's the same , they got him lying dead in the wood away down here at the . |
| 18 | They got him in the boat and they he had to lie down in the bottom of the boat and they and they covered him with a tarpaulin . |
| 19 | So they got him settled in the bottom of the boat and just as they were putting this tarpaulin over him , and getting ready to set off , the one man He heard the one man saying to the other , he says , Right , forty miles a wee stroke of the oars . |
| 20 | They got him angry / They got him to go to the party ) . |
| 21 | They got him angry / They got him to go to the party ) . |
| 22 | So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden . |
| 23 | sat there watching them catch him up he did n't see them before they got him stopped like . |
| 24 | It sounds to me with me being they got him the first the the their victims . |
| 25 | Between because before they got he went away and measured up the body and he also had sometime then you see he would have to go and put the body in the coffin . |
| 26 | I wait two yards from the foot of the steps as they bring him out . |
| 27 | I wear them every Sunday because they bring him back to me . |
| 28 | they make too much fuss of him and they bring him back |
| 29 | So what have they given him ? |
| 30 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |