Example sentences of "they [verb] him [prep] [det] " 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 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 4 | Why did they need him for this job ? |
| 5 | before they transferred him to another prison . |
| 6 | I suddenly wondered , why did they send him on that Adventuring course ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But I know they blamed him for that . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They pulled him into some trees and he was raped by one of them . |
| 11 | They pulled him into some trees and he was raped by one of them . |
| 12 | They took him to that private clinic , the one in the hills . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |