Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] him " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I keep hearing people say they do n't want to see Ovett running 3:58 because they want to remember him running 3:48 .
2 They want to see him . ’
3 Arsenal and Leeds have both been linked with the Italian World Cup hero but Liverpool must now prepare to take a significant loss on their investment if they want to offload him .
4 No , if they want to flush him out of hiding , there 's hardly a man they could use but Hotspur . ’
5 They want to kill him .
6 He did nothing to them , but they want to kill him .
7 The fact that he may have gone to ground does not mean he wo n't attack again , and they want to catch him before he does .
8 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 .
9 some of them , some of them began to spit on Jesus and they blind folded him .
10 Then as the evening goes on they begin to understand him and at the end they genuinely feel sorry and care for him .
11 They they try to ignore him .
12 The first half reflects on one incident : a soldier who has died or lost consciousness has been found by his friends and they try to awaken him , finding out if he is dead .
13 They agree to hide him , providing he does his fair share of work — a great deal of negotiation going on here .
14 So they , they , they do , they do miss him .
15 Though whether they 'll be able to do anything about it if they do see him … ’
16 How they do hate him ’ , while the second Labour government of 1929 ‘ like their predecessors , are apparently haunted by the spectre of LI.G. never absent from the Cabinet Room ’ .
17 They risk leaving him there and him going on to do damage to personal property .
18 They fail to keep him informed , and to advise at crucial times , such as takeovers .
19 They 've asked him to look at the case because it makes a mockery of justice .
20 Yeah , and that was his brother who lives in London and they 've invited him up , but she said she had a bad cold last night and was n't feeling too good , she said I 'm fine today , but she said we put them off .
21 They 've made him lie with his hands behind his head , which is a trick they probably picked from a Miami Vice afternoon repeat , except it looks stupid when the guy 's hairy legs are sticking out from the tail of his shirt .
22 They 've made him redundant .
23 They 've sacked him now .
24 They 've remanded him in custody . ’
25 So in the first case they 've given him , the first place they 've given him six six six five allowances but then they pull back the total of those three .
26 So in the first case they 've given him , the first place they 've given him six six six five allowances but then they pull back the total of those three .
27 Well perhaps they 've given him er a green carrot .
28 They 've given him a price just for painting the walls .
29 They 've seen him but he ran away !
30 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 .
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