Example sentences of "who [verb] [verb] him [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now , as in all good rehabilitated hellraiser stories , the only coke he touches comes from a bottle and he has a wife , Becky , who has helped him overcome the demon drink and restored him to his former hunky self . |
| 2 | It praises the driver of the 5.05 from London Bridge to Eastbourne who climbed out of his cab with a fistful of messages from passengers who 'd asked him to phone their wives after hearing the train would be stranded for some time . |
| 3 | Faces from the past seemed to come back and taunt him — Carmina Twist , the gypsy-eyed temptress from his university days ; Vauxhall Nova , his first great love , the woman who 'd taught him to say ‘ When ’ ; Lal Basingstoke — big , blonde , beautiful , inexhaustible , extremely tiring Lal Basingstoke . |
| 4 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 5 | He wished that one of the journalists who 'd interviewed him had expressed the substance of his life and work in such up-market , romantic terms . |
| 6 | A number of journalists try to exploit then novelty of his ‘ death and amazing recovery ’ ; other people who try to help him find him difficult to relate to . |
| 7 | Those who did know him had little idea that he was a dangerous psychotic , who nurtured a deep hatred for his parents . |
| 8 | Buddhists who 've seen him describe him as a 6ft 4in tall man with big limbs and hands . |
| 9 | In the previous year , Central Office wished to promote Captain Edwards , the chief agent for Birmingham , to be a Central Office district agent , but they were thwarted by the Chamberlains , who wished to keep him to look after Birmingham ; Neville Chamberlain arranged to have Edwards paid enough in Birmingham to keep him there and the interests of Birmingham thus prevailed over those of the party as a whole . |
| 10 | A meeting at Bristol Guildhall on 17 November was called to congratulate the king on his escape , but attracted as well a large group who wished to implore him to end the war . |
| 11 | For one thing , many of those who had opposed him had joined the Royalist army and had been killed in the war . |
| 12 | Her temperament had not changed , that was plain , but her moral nature had , as his had changed after he had discovered the wretched and hopeless poverty of the homes from which the soldiers who had served him had come . |
| 13 | people who had made him skulk behind trees until they had passed . |
| 14 | The God who had made him get off the trike and stand still at the side of the grassily banked hill . |
| 15 | Then she found herself concluding that her earlier assumption had probably been correct and that there had indeed been someone in Australia , someone who had caused him to return to England in a hurry . |
| 16 | The occasion was made even more splendid by the presence of King Alfonso II of Aragon and Count Raymond V of Toulouse , who had asked him to act as an arbitrator in their long-standing quarrel . |
| 17 | They visited the people who had given him presents so that he could thank them personally . |
| 18 | The second early influence came from his brother-in-law , William Jackson , a blind priest , who had joined him to develop the work among the blind . |
| 19 | A MALAYSIAN was jailed for five years in the capital , Kuala Lumpur , yesterday for biting off the finger of a policeman who had prevented him stealing a motorcycle . |
| 20 | The one who had accompanied him chasing the car simply glowered in the direction it had gone , while the other one , who had n't fired a shot , writhed by the roadside , trying to clutch a leg which trailed at an unnatural angle . |
| 21 | He had come from a bulk tanker that had tied up in the oil terminal in Kuwait harbour , thanked the Master who had allowed him to work his passage from the port of Perth , and gone ashore . |
| 22 | At the end of the day Child and I were cursing our luck and Douglas Hamilton was waxing lyrical about the placidity of the beasts , who had allowed him to come within six yards of them . |
| 23 | He had initially made braziers and water carriers on the estate of a European settler , who had persuaded him to manufacture in addition chisels and hammers . |
| 24 | Only a fool would have turned it down , of course , but he was uncomfortably aware that Anthea , who had persuaded him to apply , had been instrumental in his appointment . |
| 25 | It was she who had begged him to make love to her , she recalled , not the other way round , and , although he had n't been exactly reluctant , what man was going to turn down such a blatant offer ? |
| 26 | When jury selection commenced on Sept. 5 , the defence vainly made a last-minute effort to get the trial dismissed , alleging government breach of ethics because it had just learned that Noriega 's former lawyer , Raymond Takiff , who had advised him to surrender to US authorities in January 1990 , was at the time working secretly for federal authorities . |
| 27 | In fact it was she who had advised him to get a second opinion on the matter , from a lawyer . |
| 28 | He rose to his feet , but the thought of a glare from mother , who had shunted him to transport , and he was sitting down again . |
| 29 | Even the two youths who had attacked him had by now disappeared from view . |
| 30 | For a long time I was afraid that he had survived the raids of the Khabiris on our last outposts in the north ; but an infantry captain who had known him managed to make his way back to the Southern Capital and contacted my steward . |