Example sentences of "they [vb past] him [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | On the following Monday some of them pursued him to a review that was taking place on Wimbledon Common , while others went to the City , occupied the Royal Exchange and picketed the coffee houses , carrying placards reading More Wages . |
2 | Some of them poked him with sticks to see if he really was a savage and threw books shouting , ‘ Build us a tower . |
3 | The sight of them filled him with pride . |
4 | George , at one stage , tried to get up , but one of them hit him over the head with his rifle . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | The other prisoners gasped because they expected him to be shot on the spot . |
7 | ‘ They got him to hospital , but then he had a second attack . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
10 | I mean when he was born they laid him on me , he 'd had the cord round his neck three times and he looked like a tortoise with his long neck and this little tiny head [ laughs ] . |
11 | They laid him on the cool grass and bathed his forehead . |
12 | Eventually , they laid him on the bed in his own room , and undressed him . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 |
15 | They battered him over the head and threatened him with a shotgun . |
16 | Whether they get the computer software , dolls and musical instruments they asked him for remains to be seen . |
17 | They asked him for a swimming pool and a better playground , but he was n't making any promises . |
18 | Also they asked him about some people rating him better than Best . |
19 | The rich merchant thought the children should always salute him and call him ‘ sir ’ when they passed him in the street . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner , but they led him to an opposite conclusion . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 ’ . |
24 | 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 ! |
25 | 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 ! |
26 | They attacked him with a gun barrel before escaping . |
27 | the school are doing nothing , okay what did they do , they stopped the money , yeah , they stopped him from having money , they made him pay money back which I 'm pleased about that he got |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |