Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 They 're casting him as a woman .
2 With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things .
3 I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ?
4 They wo n't take any notice of us , Baptiste said : the ambulance is round the front , I saw it , and they 're carrying him into the downstairs bit .
5 Veterans mostly of conferences and corporate operations where the good time masked a definite hidden agenda , they were steering him through the introductions deftly and with an impressive display of memory .
6 Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time .
7 He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema .
8 ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles .
9 Only it seems they was callin' him by a different name , or names even .
10 I mean , my mate , he went to hospital cos they said he was allergic to something and they was putting him in a thing that only
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