Example sentences of "they [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | They grab him in a bearhug from behind . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | But the reds and browns are not sure if they want him on their side . |
| 34 | And what they want him for ? |
| 35 | ‘ Some women want the man to be the boss , they want him to be Daddy . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | When the band sensed that Harvey was growing tired they moved him towards a finale and spread a musical carpet and drew a musical curtain and the trumpet milked the applause . |
| 39 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 40 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 41 | Its early days but they expect him to be in hospital for about two months . |
| 42 | I visited the local Oxfordshire set ups , that 's Williams , Benneton and Leyton House in the last couple of weeks , and all of them say ‘ Eddy 's got a good car , a good chassis , a good engine and he 's got good finance ’ , and they expect him to be right up there with the big names from the start . |
| 43 | They regarded him as an oddity . |
| 44 | His old friends the overseers did him proud to the very last : in their generosity they provided him with a 14s. funeral . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | So How did they catch him in the dog 's home that 's what I was thinking . |
| 47 | When the three met with Father Vinko , the parish priest at Caratis , they found him to be a cheerful ‘ hands on ’ worker . |
| 48 | They found him under the yew tree and after a rather stormy scene , during which Bigwig grew rough and impatient , he was bullied rather than persuaded into going down with them into the great burrow . |
| 49 | ‘ Two days after I did the tattoo they found him on a street in Los Ilusiones . |
| 50 | I just recall that I got a bit of a shock when I heard they found him on MOD property . |
| 51 | And they found him on the floor ? |
| 52 | They found him in robust mood , " his morale seemed higher than at Eighth Army HQ " and he seemed confident that he could " maintain " the " uneasy position " in Venezia Giulia " for several weeks if necessary , while negotiations proceed and decisions are taken on a government level " . |
| 53 | Perhaps they used him as a mine-detector ! |
| 54 | Let's hope he consults Lincoln University and they send him to me . ’ |
| 55 | They described him as the " enemy of all chastity " and ascribed to him the intention of founding an abbey of prostitutes in which the offices of abbess , prioress and so on would be distributed according to the professional skill of the inmates . |
| 56 | Oh there was this interview with Mick Jagger yeah but like it must have been written about cos they described him as a neanderthal rocker . |
| 57 | They beat they beat him to death . |
| 58 | Then they beat him with the pipes once again , but when they realized that he had managed to keep his secrets from them , that this small Englishman was not for talking , they turned on him in their fury and kicked and beat him until they feared they had killed him . |
| 59 | The solo climber was in a bad way , and they invited him to rope up with them . |
| 60 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |