Example sentences of "they [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got him angry / They got him to go to the party ) . |
| 2 | They made him redundant . |
| 3 | They made him selfconscious and he wanted a new set . |
| 4 | They had declared at his accession , they had repeated often since , that they desired him to reign upon the selfsame terms as his predecessors ; and yet they made him aware , whenever it was needful to ask for a grant of money , that in fact he stood upon ground subtly changed , and must ask as a favour what had been Richard 's unquestioned right . |
| 5 | Milton ward Tories were so impressed by his la-de-da-accent and gold-plated walking stick that they made him social secretary . |
| 6 | There were so many , moving so fast , that they made him dizzy . |
| 7 | They make him anxious . |
| 8 | The Commander 's gay as a grasshopper , old Dass 's son walks in and tells them they make him sick to the teeth . |
| 9 | another pair and they fit him fine , lovely . |
| 10 | After hearing the evidence the justices announced that they found him guilty , but on hearing of his previous convictions they decided that they would not deal with the case and committed him for trial to quarter sessions . |
| 11 | He was diffident — unlike Ernest who was good at all games — and preoccupied with his country pursuits , but they found him companionable ; himself capable of long hours of solitude , he could always find acquaintances ready to share his company for a time ; but only a few dedicated companions shared his exacting singleminded concentration on these occupations . |
| 12 | They found him naked in the morning , |
| 13 | They found him plausible . |
| 14 | ‘ In the morning they found him dead , face down on a bare spot , not far from the town . |
| 15 | They confined him , and in the morning when they went to release him they found him dead . ’ |
| 16 | They found him dead in bed from the bomb blast . ’ |
| 17 | They found him interesting if not always politically correct . |
| 18 | They caught him unprepared , before he could blank out his mind , making him remember the last time he had heard that sort of ringing , last Sunday . |
| 19 | They stripped him naked , pegged him to the soil , tied a hollow pipe to his side and took a starving rat — ’ Mandeville slurped from his beer ‘ — not one of your English sort . |
| 20 | They showed him great sympathy . |
| 21 | They give him poor tips and charge high commissions . |
| 22 | Something about him seemed absent ‘ They knocked him silly ’ , old people said , in the dockers ' strike . ’ |
| 23 | they get him free time , so now he 's had two weeks off |
| 24 | They called him Rubberneck because a good third of his height was neck . |
| 25 | He seemed so fiercely shut up in himself that Ruth was afraid people would start seriously meaning it when they called him mad . |
| 26 | Each day they brought him cyclostyled sheets from their local agents , and the telephone numbers of friends ' relatives whose relatives ' friends had seen a board up somewhere . |
| 27 | There was a vicious irony that it should be Brian , who always confronted the guards when they treated him subhumanly , who was now being abused like a dumb animal . |
| 28 | As a result they offered him small parts in the next two films in which Ken would star . |
| 29 | They offered him hot wine and canella , surrounded him and talked eagerly in a mixture of Russian , French and Yiddish . |
| 30 | Her 16-year-old brother was arrested and tortured ( they removed the skin from his face and the soles of his feet ) ; then they burnt him alive in the village square . |