Example sentences of "they [vb past] him [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They got him to hospital , but then he had a second attack . |
| 2 | Whether they get the computer software , dolls and musical instruments they asked him for remains to be seen . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal dismissed an Inland Revenue challenge to a High Court ruling that £75,000 paid to England and Derby County goalkeeper Peter Shilton by Nottingham Forest when they sold him to Southampton in 1982 should be treated as a ‘ golden handshake ’ . |
| 4 | United will be getting around three hundred thousand pounds of that … they sold him to Stoke on the proviso of a share of any future deals — bingo ! |
| 5 | The story going around at the time was that he had ticked off the Lebanese bureau staff to the point where they sold him to Hezbollah for a bit of peace and quiet ! |
| 6 | A likely explanation is that , although in book 2 he again collaborated with Danchet ( nos. 1–4 ) , and worked with another eminent librettist , Fuselier ( nos. 5–6 ) , they provided him with poems whose dramatic interest is uneven . |
| 7 | I just recall that I got a bit of a shock when I heard they found him on MOD property . |
| 8 | They beat they beat him to death . |
| 9 | The solo climber was in a bad way , and they invited him to rope up with them . |
| 10 | Then they told him about Lefevre . |
| 11 | They trapped him in corners , caught him and drove him into small dark spaces that rattled terrifyingly . |
| 12 | ( Otto once told me some unbelievably shocking — to me — tales about Jean-Claude and American soldiers , and how they paid him in cigarettes and chewing-gum . |
| 13 | AUSSIE tripper John Lambert found a British bank did not give a XXXX when he handed back £1,000 they handed him by mistake . |
| 14 | It was n't his case and they were n't suspects , and they must have known that he was no cheerful extrovert , flattered to be the centre of attraction while they bombarded him with questions about Chief Inspector Rickards 's likely methods , the chance of catching the Whistler , his theories about psychopathic killers , his own experience of serial murder . |
| 15 | They bombarded him with letters , each cleric pointing out the justice of his claims and listing the iniquities of his brother in Christ . |
| 16 | They bombarded him with letters and rang him up at least once a week . |
| 17 | They released him on bail but he was secretly followed by two police officers . |
| 18 | They killed him with kindness , and it did n't do Blackburn much good either . |
| 19 | JIM LEIGHTON ( above ) , the goalkeeper Manchester United once dropped from an FA Cup final , was yesterday put on Wembley alert by semi-finalists Sheffield United when they signed him on loan from Dundee . |
| 20 | Then they dumped him at Markyate , Herts , and gave back his keys — plus £5 for a taxi ride to his looted truck . |
| 21 | So they tied him with chains but the demonic powers were so great in his life that he snapped them like new cords . |
| 22 | ‘ Dirkie ’ they called him at school . |
| 23 | But Miss Hemse maintained that his psycho-kinetic powers had bent her contraceptive device while she and her fiancé were making love as they watched him on television . |
| 24 | They watched him with interest , but also with suspicion , even apprehension ; no one knows what an official snooper on the loose will turn up . |
| 25 | His father was born in Germany , and a teenager when they brought him to Detroit . |
| 26 | They took him to Melland Street near Darlington Civic Theatre , where they stole the money he was carrying . |
| 27 | When they took him to Florida , he was n't so bothered about Mickey Mouse . |
| 28 | They felt he was bored so they took him to training classes and Tricia said he 's an absolute natural . |
| 29 | Thom picked up two oranges from the gutter but someone saw him and they took him to Derby Street police station and he got the sack from the police . |
| 30 | They took him to John Gifford , minister of an Independent or Baptist congregation in Bedford which the Cromwellian government had installed in an Anglican church . |