Example sentences of "they [vb past] him [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | Then they told him about Lefevre . |
| 5 | Then they dumped him at Markyate , Herts , and gave back his keys — plus £5 for a taxi ride to his looted truck . |
| 6 | His father was born in Germany , and a teenager when they brought him to Detroit . |
| 7 | They took him to Melland Street near Darlington Civic Theatre , where they stole the money he was carrying . |
| 8 | When they took him to Florida , he was n't so bothered about Mickey Mouse . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A paramedic crew from Mersey Regional Ambulance was waiting on the beach for Mr Ross and they took him to Southport and Formby District and General Hospital but he died shortly afterwards . |
| 12 | If parents wished their son to become a Scribe they took him to Jerusalem at the age of thirteen and enrolled him in one of the Rabbinical schools . |
| 13 | They knew him at McCausland 's , and would treat him reverentially . |
| 14 | Faced with a young man with two Engineering degrees and A-level German , they sent him to Germany to build and to test experimental airfields , to join the Officers ' Mess at Cologne , and to sample continental culture . |
| 15 | In 1869 they sent him to Peru to supervise running two of their steam ploughs , and there he remained for thirteen years , soon finding scope for his natural business acumen . |
| 16 | ‘ They sent him to Australia for life , because he tried to escape from the prison-ship . ’ |
| 17 | They shone so brightly they reminded him of Rebecca Salmon . |