Example sentences of "they [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he slipped into a deep sleep , and all at once the warm feeling of happiness deserted him and his stomach heaved as he recognised the same old nightmare returning : the walk along the jetty , the cruel hands dragging him to the edge , the utter helplessness as they lowered him into the icy water , the wave that broke over his head — and at last , that terrible choking sensation . |
| 2 | They got him in the boat and they he had to lie down in the bottom of the boat and they and they covered him with a tarpaulin . |
| 3 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 4 | They laid him on the cool grass and bathed his forehead . |
| 5 | Eventually , they laid him on the bed in his own room , and undressed him . |
| 6 | Following this , they laid him on the bed again , and when he started to groan May said , ‘ He 'll live , ’ and turning and looking at Mrs Funnell , she added , ‘ Unfortunately , ’ before marching out of the room . |
| 7 | I think sometimes I ca n't help but think it 's how they made him in a way , you know , like I , you , sometimes your , I think you should sit down and play with something , but he wo n't sit quiet and amuse himself |
| 8 | They battered him over the head and threatened him with a shotgun . |
| 9 | They asked him for a swimming pool and a better playground , but he was n't making any promises . |
| 10 | Lionan , the dandy , was talking behind his hand to the brutal Mullach , who was gulping his beer moodily and staring at the serving maids as they passed him in a bustling procession . |
| 11 | The rich merchant thought the children should always salute him and call him ‘ sir ’ when they passed him in the street . |
| 12 | Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner , but they led him to an opposite conclusion . |
| 13 | They led him through the great court and round the cloister to the flank of the east end of the church , where the mitred graves of the abbots lay . |
| 14 | ‘ So we all go up in the lift , and the two bucks as good as carry the mother 's boy into the room ; he 's almost completely gone , and they sit him on the bed and they pour some of the champagne down him and then they come out . |
| 15 | They sit him in the rocking-chair in front of the hearth , to rock himself back and forth as he muses out loud about the enslavement of man by natural technology . |
| 16 | It 's followed by more noise , sharp and ugly , as they drag him into the kitchen . |
| 17 | What is more , the Spirit who has become resident in the followers of Jesus mediates to them the victory over the world which Jesus had ( 4:4 ) as they trust him for the power to overcome temptation ( 5:3,4 ) . |
| 18 | They attacked him with a gun barrel before escaping . |
| 19 | They grab him in a bearhug from behind . |
| 20 | They approached him at a steady pace as though unconcerned by his presence , but they went in single file , Allen with his hand lying lightly on the knife at his belt and Marian carrying her bow , strung , and with an arrow ready notched , lightly and inconspicuously in her left hand . |
| 21 | Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me . |
| 22 | After that , they moved him to a building near Rue Michelle Boutros , and later on to the cellars of two different hospitals in West Beirut , both of them supplied by Tony 's company , AMA Industries . |
| 23 | When the band sensed that Harvey was growing tired they moved him towards a finale and spread a musical carpet and drew a musical curtain and the trumpet milked the applause . |
| 24 | They regarded him as an oddity . |
| 25 | His old friends the overseers did him proud to the very last : in their generosity they provided him with a 14s. funeral . |
| 26 | So How did they catch him in the dog 's home that 's what I was thinking . |
| 27 | They found him under the yew tree and after a rather stormy scene , during which Bigwig grew rough and impatient , he was bullied rather than persuaded into going down with them into the great burrow . |
| 28 | ‘ Two days after I did the tattoo they found him on a street in Los Ilusiones . |
| 29 | And they found him on the floor ? |
| 30 | Perhaps they used him as a mine-detector ! |