Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fleischmann 's entry reports ‘ music , cooking , skiing , walking ’ — nothing very remarkable here perhaps , but they helped to bring him to the most intense period of his scientific career . |
| 2 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 3 | On one occasion , they tried to interest him in the piano but that finished within three weeks with two surprises . |
| 4 | It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’ |
| 5 | They drove to see him at the Chapel of Repose . |
| 6 | ‘ Constable David Owen said : ‘ The crowd remained silent after Downey shouted but when the tribute ended they began punching him round the neck , back and body and began pushing him towards us . ’ ’ |
| 7 | Act guiltily and they 'll judge you guilty As they started to follow him down the street he got more and more worried He broke into a run . |
| 8 | If they chose to greet him in the street , he did not acknowledge them . |
| 9 | They 've put him on the top floor like the other ones we 've had . ’ |
| 10 | I wager they 've put him in the meanest , coldest room , without even a brazier , after the way he spoke to Matilda . |
| 11 | I think that i i i I do n't , I 'd I I reckon they 've got him on the kidnapping charge . |
| 12 | They 've castrated him at the same time |
| 13 | They 've had him from the Wednesday , was it the Wed er , no from the Saturday to the Wednesday cos she was working and they took him on to seaside somewhere and when come home , he 's having stitches in his head where he 'd fell , he hit it on the stone or summat and I said oh did he enjoy it apart from that , she said he was a swine last night , he was screaming and hitting me and she called her husband down from work , she could n't control him , said she should of smacked his arse and put him in the cot . |
| 14 | They had missed him in the garden , but now if he was truly a son of Adam he would die . |
| 15 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 16 | They had dressed him in the shoes and suit and overcoat that he had worn when arrested . |
| 17 | Dick and the nurses told him that , even after the pre-med , they had to chase him round the ward to get him to remove his shorts . |
| 18 | They had removed him from the stifling atmosphere of the Court , but already he was finding that Civil Service protocol could be just as oppressive . |
| 19 | As a result they had taken him to the police , and then Sommerville had been questioned . |
| 20 | When they had taken him from the hospital block with his possessions and spare clothes in a cloth sack he had smiled and shaken hands and believed that the flight was close , Berlin he had thought it would be . |
| 21 | What they had told him about the paper was ‘ positively negative ’ — an endless list of what the paper was not going to do , rather than what it was going to do . |
| 22 | They would not have recognized him if they had passed him in the street . |
| 23 | They always came in for more than a little if they had offended him in the past . |
| 24 | As he pressed eagerly forward , his long beard streaming In the wind and rain , two Spanish friars snapped at his heels , still desperately trying to persuade him in Latin to die in the faith ; they continued to exhort him at the stake , where , according to Foxe , he lifted up his eyes to heaven , as he held his offending hand in the fire , and died using the words of Stephen : ‘ Lord Jesus receive my spirit . ’ |
| 25 | They intended to kill him from the start … . ’ |