Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had missed him in the garden , but now if he was truly a son of Adam he would die . |
| 2 | They had made him into a gunman . |
| 3 | He knew why they had swept him from his horse and he was terrified of what they would do to him . |
| 4 | He claimed he got started after being spotted in a bar by someone who mistakenly thought they had seen him in a male model magazine . |
| 5 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 6 | Accordingly , at the time of the accident the deceased was a lawful visitor on the premises , since the brewery had not given the deceased any indication that the permission they had given him to be on the premises expired at 10.30 p.m . |
| 7 | Until then they had treated him with a mixture of sympathy as a man caught up , by line of duty , in a political imbroglio , and suspicion at what he might do to make things worse . |
| 8 | They had tested him in Athens , now they tested him again . |
| 9 | They had dressed him in the shoes and suit and overcoat that he had worn when arrested . |
| 10 | He did n't tell her how they had beaten him with plastic tubes filled with sand so that he would hurt and bruise without breaking his bones . |
| 11 | They want to help him , and I have to remind them that he might be frightening ( that was the way they had wanted him to be ) so we 'll need to approach him very carefully . |
| 12 | He was roller-coasting towards a high-rise career and now they had sent him to this stinking backwater to test further his resolve and capability . |
| 13 | They had removed him from the stifling atmosphere of the Court , but already he was finding that Civil Service protocol could be just as oppressive . |
| 14 | They probably seemed as ridiculous to the boy as they 'd seemed boring to Nevil , who had been right to say they had harmed him with their indulgence and from whom they would willingly now have asked forgiveness . |
| 15 | Once Eric was in the car they had driven towards Soragna , then by a roundabout route to a big plantation of poplars near the right bank of the Po , where they had directed him to a well-hidden place in the middle . |
| 16 | He said they had forced him into a car and he had heard the lorry start up behind him . |
| 17 | Oh , he had told lies and they had trapped him by asking for the names of other English agents in Paris . |
| 18 | Why should he feel that they had bred him to disappointment ? |
| 19 | They had surrounded him with horror and stupidity , with all the paraphernalia of this so-called human excess , and they expected it to bring him down , to reduce him still further from the once proud state he had fallen from , but they would not succeed . |
| 20 | Laidlaw had been detained by the police only hours after Barak 's murder and although they had interrogated him at regular intervals every four hours , trying to break him down , he had managed to stick to his story . |
| 21 | The Shah seemed very pleased attitude was changing previously they had urged him to be a purely constitutional monarch ; now perhaps they wanted him to involve himself more in Iranian politics , He thought he must do that — otherwise there would be confusion and chaos . |
| 22 | As a result they had taken him to the police , and then Sommerville had been questioned . |
| 23 | When they had taken him from the hospital block with his possessions and spare clothes in a cloth sack he had smiled and shaken hands and believed that the flight was close , Berlin he had thought it would be . |
| 24 | They had stalled him for long enough , but with a baby coming , he could n't wait any longer and then when Rachel told them she had to get married , she was thrown out of the house . |
| 25 | When they had carried him into his cage that afternoon and taken him out of the carrier box in which he had journeyed for so long , he had hardly dared to look around him at the other cages . |
| 26 | In Bamburgh castle , where they had carried him from Wooler as soon as he was fit to be moved , the earl of Douglas took his ease in a very light and illustrious captivity . |
| 27 | They had cornered him in an alley . |
| 28 | It was the memory of what they had told him of Callanish , and of the eagles that came from there . |
| 29 | What they had told him about the paper was ‘ positively negative ’ — an endless list of what the paper was not going to do , rather than what it was going to do . |
| 30 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |