Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mantack then returned to Donna 's parents house , where they told him about the message . |
| 2 | Then they were both fearful for him and they took him into the cold scullery , where they hid him from the intruders . |
| 3 | They felt he was bored so they took him to training classes and Tricia said he 's an absolute natural . |
| 4 | His bulk , thin but long , was hard for them to get up their spiral stairs , so they left him on the sofa below , on the floor that lay over an ironmonger 's shop . |
| 5 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 6 | But the money gets nicked , so the one who 's married , she goes and robs erm a store and then , they , the policeman pulls them over and wants to take them in so they lock him in his boot . |
| 7 | ‘ Orpheus rejected women so they tore him to pieces and threw his head into the River Hebrus . |
| 8 | Yes , if they put him into Southwold I 'm alright |
| 9 | If they saw him with his son they would n't say that , or when he 's playing with the dog . |
| 10 | If they saw him in a play , they saw a middle-aged man pretending to be young , in an outdated vehicle that bore as much relation to their reality as crinolines and penny-farthings . |
| 11 | One of the conspirators would ring the foreman to tip him off that the shop steward could be caught red-handed stealing company property if they searched him at the gate . |
| 12 | I 'm still terrified , even though McDunn 's on my side , because I can see he 's not so hopeful any more and if they take him off this I might get the bad cops , the ones that just want a confession and Christ I 'm in England , not Scotland , and despite the McGuire Seven and the Guildford Four they still have n't changed the law : down here you can still be convicted on an uncorroborated confession even if you try to retract it later . |
| 13 | The dealer then approaches the arms manufacturers telling them that if they appoint him as their agent , he will get them a contract in return for a percentage of the value of the transaction , which could be as low as 3 per cent , or as high as 15 depending on how specialized is the equipment required . |
| 14 | Even if they locked him in a dark cell and pulled out all his teeth with rusty pliers , he must keep his promise to Sweetheart and tell them nothing . |
| 15 | And if they took him to hospital he 'd just do the same thing again and again , until his family gave in . |
| 16 | And if they wanted him to be boring then that would be the performance that he would offer . |
| 17 | It was almost as if they considered him to be as much a victim of his government as they were of theirs , as if he could no more be held responsible for Reagan 's actions than they could for Gaddafi 's . |
| 18 | But the reds and browns are not sure if they want him on their side . |
| 19 | This was his perfect nightmare , to be facing scabby , pock-marked men like these , who had nothing to lose if they gutted him on the spot . |
| 20 | Cos they crossed him off the list register now . |
| 21 | Because he did n't , he stayed cos they class him as an A person . |
| 22 | Oh there was this interview with Mick Jagger yeah but like it must have been written about cos they described him as a neanderthal rocker . |
| 23 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 24 | The other prisoners gasped because they expected him to be shot on the spot . |
| 25 | Members of the political élite may give a president their support out of friendship or because they find him to be a likeable person . |
| 26 | He had an infection of the muscle and would have to stay in hospital for at least three weeks , maybe a month , while they treated him with penicillin injections . |
| 27 | It was n't his case and they were n't suspects , and they must have known that he was no cheerful extrovert , flattered to be the centre of attraction while they bombarded him with questions about Chief Inspector Rickards 's likely methods , the chance of catching the Whistler , his theories about psychopathic killers , his own experience of serial murder . |
| 28 | The boy had not spoken since they thrust him into this sandstone cell under the ground and left him with his single candle and his narrow bed . |
| 29 | before they transferred him to another prison . |
| 30 | Mr Newman died on the night of the general election , but police released full details only yesterday after they identified him from dental records . |