Example sentences of "they [verb] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |
| 2 | It sounds to me with me being they got him the first the the their victims . |
| 3 | ‘ He was an expert on Russian affairs — as much of an expert as MPs get to be on anything — and they made him a junior minister to add credibility to their soft-line policy . |
| 4 | They send him a free one every six months ! |
| 5 | ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time . |
| 6 | he 's after something , h his apprenticeship so they give him a thousand pound |
| 7 | They teach him the dynamic techniques of his art in order that he may be able to apply them , perhaps in a life-or-death predicament , on the streets . |
| 8 | They called him the One-Eyed Guest and Elisabeth recalled how , when she was young , the peasants never harvested a field without putting out a sheaf for Odin 's horse . |
| 9 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 10 | There is a story that they bet him a substantial sum that he could not read a certain number of books of the Bible without talking . |
| 11 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 12 | At the garage where he bought petrol they offered him a complimentary sherry glass because he had bought more than thirty litres . |
| 13 | They offered him the highest position in the land , second only to that traitor , if he would forsake me ! |
| 14 | They thought him a genuine socialist who had tackled the capitalists — something the SPD had failed to do , and had hopes for a brighter future when the war was won . |
| 15 | When Greg offered to drive her they gave him a similar warning . |
| 16 | He immediately queried the instructions and eventually they gave him a new course to steer . |
| 17 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 18 | They gave him a good room , and ‘ here therefore we settled , ’ he said , ‘ and did not spoil the present hour with thoughts of departure . ’ |
| 19 | They gave him a good , and he looked over his chest and his heart and er , pulse . |
| 20 | Hubert Gaily liked churchyards , they gave him a curious sense of well-being . |
| 21 | He was willing , if they gave him a suitable hostage to ensure their good faith , to allow Berwick ten more days of siege , whereafter , if they were not relieved by the so-called Regent , they must surrender . |
| 22 | So they gave him a special job . ’ |
| 23 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 24 | And they gave him the rowdiest send-off of the campaign . |
| 25 | Jesus Christ and all , and all his fucking disciples and Mohammed and all his fucking disciples and everybody else they love him , they love him the whole bloody thing is what rules the bloody universe . |
| 26 | They deport him the same day . |