Example sentences of "they [verb] him in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The rich merchant thought the children should always salute him and call him ‘ sir ’ when they passed him in the street . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They grab him in a bearhug from behind . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So How did they catch him in the dog 's home that 's what I was thinking . |
| 9 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 10 | They buried him in the churchyard here . |
| 11 | He alienated those he feared were becoming too important to him , and they rejected him in the manner to which he had become accustomed . |
| 12 | They told him in no uncertain terms that he could not take a holiday whenever he felt like it . |
| 13 | Knock out a rabbit at fifty paces , they told him in the shop . |
| 14 | He could still feel eyes on him , they were like fingers , they poked him in the ribs , the shoulderblades , the neck , it was hard not looking round . |
| 15 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 16 | Even if they locked him in a dark cell and pulled out all his teeth with rusty pliers , he must keep his promise to Sweetheart and tell them nothing . |
| 17 | On one occasion they locked him in a bedroom and he threw a wooden brick through the window and tore down the curtains . |
| 18 | On one occasion they locked him in a bedroom and he threw a wooden brick through a window and tore down the curtains . |
| 19 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 20 | Whores did this , after all , a dozen times a day and would not recognize the man should they meet him in the street an hour later . |
| 21 | They heard him in the bathroom , running the water , then breaking a tumbler between long pauses . |
| 22 | Clearly they heard him in the Cornerways flats and in Sea House and in the Dasses ' house and in the lounges of the Queen Victoria Hotel . |
| 23 | Why , one wonders , did they fire him in the first place ? |
| 24 | They put Dagon upright again , but the next morning they find him in an even sorrier state . |
| 25 | Mandy was telling us , you know , about one of her friends she erm her husband was very high up in a company and he went to work one day and they called him in the office and says right , you ai n't got a job ! |
| 26 | They planted him in a cemetery in Norwood about three weeks ago . ’ |
| 27 | If they saw him in a play , they saw a middle-aged man pretending to be young , in an outdated vehicle that bore as much relation to their reality as crinolines and penny-farthings . |
| 28 | But he emptied the house of its demanding lodgers , some of whom subsequently abused him , when they saw him in the street . |
| 29 | So they put him in the kitchens . |
| 30 | They catch any gay guy with AZT , they throw him in the federal penitentiary like Jimmy fucking Cagney , and then they throw us out of the country . |