Example sentences of "they [verb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also they asked him about some people rating him better than Best . |
| 2 | Why did they want him on this particular job ? |
| 3 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 4 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 5 | They found him in robust mood , " his morale seemed higher than at Eighth Army HQ " and he seemed confident that he could " maintain " the " uneasy position " in Venezia Giulia " for several weeks if necessary , while negotiations proceed and decisions are taken on a government level " . |
| 6 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 7 | Why did they need him for this job ? |
| 8 | before they transferred him to another prison . |
| 9 | I suddenly wondered , why did they send him on that Adventuring course ? |
| 10 | You see , they 've got a card of the fella that did the thingy so , when they put him onto this other fella he says , er , yeah , his name were Mr so and so . |
| 11 | Julia 's questions about the line the defence lawyers were taking were as acute as anything she had ever asked David , and they filled him with relieved delight . |
| 12 | Mr Newman died on the night of the general election , but police released full details only yesterday after they identified him from dental records . |
| 13 | But I know they blamed him for that . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They pulled him into some trees and he was raped by one of them . |
| 16 | They pulled him into some trees and he was raped by one of them . |
| 17 | They acquitted him of three further charges of indecency and one of buggery . |
| 18 | They warned him with veiled threats against mentioning anything that he had witnessed the previous night . |
| 19 | They watched him with sly greediness . |
| 20 | They watched him with unconcealed anxiety , wet already with the light rain . |
| 21 | They took him to that private clinic , the one in the hills . |
| 22 | They sent him to proper schools — the first royal child not to have been educated by private tutors — but he was never just another pupil ; he was never allowed to forget the accident of birth that set him apart . |
| 23 | They treated him like one of them , complimenting him on his astuteness , until he began to genuinely believe that it was he who had selected Node Check , that he was an expert on account trading before he 'd learned anything about the stock market in general . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It 's like this people th they 're deep sea divers and they discover , they 're stuck in the crevice , a big erm nuclear submarine and what it 's for is an experiment that 's gone wrong and it it 's to make and instead they make an abomination you know , incredibly powerful and intelligent but really nasty you know , murderous and killer and so they take they take him to these people . |
| 26 | Whitlock had spent most of the afternoon with them and he 'd come away with the distinct impression that they held him in little regard . |
| 27 | They sedated him with Southern Comfort . |
| 28 | Money procured for Minton the kind of men he needed , but his inability to possess them left him with insatiable desire , to such an extent that his relentless pursuit of young men began to intrude into everything he did . |
| 29 | But he did not want them to follow him under any false delusion . |