Example sentences of "people [verb] [prep] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People gathered around him like a Pied Piper . |
| 2 | Whatever people say to him in confidence and whatever they may say in twos or threes , if he had been here when the issue was raised on the Floor of the House only a week or so ago he would have realised — indeed he was here so he should have realised this instantly — that the leaders of the groups might come to an — |
| 3 | God longs for all people to come to him like the son returned to the father in the parable . |
| 4 | But he had no sense that they were being watched , that somewhere between these walls and the windows glinting in the transitory sun there were people waiting for him in anxiety , grief , perhaps in fear . |
| 5 | In the modern age he is expected to lead and the people look to him for solutions to their problems , but the chances of his being allowed to do what he needs to do are negligible . |
| 6 | People talk about him in the pub on Sundays . |
| 7 | Coffin nodded , telling himself he might remember this fact when people talked to him about ‘ neighbourhood ’ crimes . |
| 8 | People bid for him at auctions , a guy called Henry Glinwood mostly — ‘ an anonymous buyer ’ — but his reputation goes before him . ’ |
| 9 | There were fans everywhere and people chasing after him in the streets . |
| 10 | People turn to him for mature counsel . |
| 11 | The theory that continents drifted about was proposed long ago by the German geophysicist Alfred Wegener , but most people laughed at him until well after the Second World War . |
| 12 | People flocked to him in County Cavan and he became famous in Ireland with saturation media coverage . |
| 13 | Arthur was used to people talking about him in his presence as if he could n't hear . |
| 14 | Yo yo you knew your clubman was coming , you 've stayed in and that is how our local clubman who is now dead , Mr became a councillor because naturally , people voted for him against the Conservative because he was someone they knew , someone like as came you know . |
| 15 | The guy was taking on ten people at o he he had ten people working for him in one day . |
| 16 | After his death , country people acquainted with him around Etten were astonished that ‘ that Vincent ’ could have ever amounted to anything . |