Example sentences of "people who [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the people who advised him to remain in Morocco was the legendary Ardeshir Zahedi , son of the Shah 's prime minister in 1953 , and till recently the Iranian ambassador in Washington . |
| 2 | He was pleasant enough in general , though most people who met him formed the vaguest of ideas that he might be dangerous in some unspecified way . |
| 3 | Now , the same people who discarded him as a kid are the ones who want to shake his hand . |
| 4 | ‘ It was your people who got him into this , ’ he persisted . |
| 5 | People who know him well say the Kuwaiti affair has affected him deeply , chipping away at his pro-western instincts , and instilling in him a deep pessimism about the future of the region . |
| 6 | It means God 's saving grace working through individuals and communities of people who know him as Saviour and Lord to influence a wider society . |
| 7 | People who know him say Ray Noorda regards all of his lieutenants as highly dispensable as he noticeably wearies of them quickly . |
| 8 | When I ask him for telephone numbers of the people who know him best , he gives me the numbers of Deneuve , Shrimpton and Helvin before Jack Nicholson , Brian Clarke and Julian Schnabel . |
| 9 | Go and see the reaction of the people who witnessed him cure the blind man Blind Bartiamaus or Bethsiedum Go and check out what the woman who with a haemorrhage had to say about him . |
| 10 | He was a hero to the people who saw him only as a little waif , when actually he was a pudding of hatred . ’ |
| 11 | McKenzie , who has never been in trouble before , was described by people who knew him as a pleasant individual . |
| 12 | For those who are familiar with Lewis 's literary persona , as for the much smaller number of people who knew him in life , his acceptance of an orthodox Christian position seems in an almost literal sense fitting . |
| 13 | I talked to about 30 or 40 people who knew him pretty well , and they all thought that they were one of the most important people in his life . |
| 14 | There follow some accounts of Wordsworth by people who knew him , mainly in later life , as a way of pointing up , and perhaps correcting , the poet 's own version of himself . |
| 15 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
| 16 | People who knew him , knew he had Aids . |
| 17 | His ‘ Caesar ’ hair-cut was brilliantined into kiss-curls framing a face that had nasty carved all over it , and rumour had it that people who crossed him were never seen again . |
| 18 | He had , now , friends in many places , or people who owed him a favour . |
| 19 | He was never paid , so he never had a job to lose , but he 's always been happy to help people who asked him . ’ |
| 20 | I was one of the few people who understood him . ’ |
| 21 | There are yellow Christs and brown Christs , Christs who are serene and Christs in agony , Christs who are stylized and Christ in the image of the people who depicted him . |
| 22 | I think Imamu takes the most slack when it comes to proving himself because he is always around to hear the people who criticize him , where as although Boo is criticized , he is not there to hear it , seeing as he is locked up inside his house . |
| 23 | COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment . |
| 24 | Lots of people who meet him who he likes and he goes out with them . |
| 25 | On the other hand there were many people who loved him dearly . |
| 26 | There were people who provided him with houses — such as that in Bethany — which were comfortable and large enough to accommodate , at the very least , his immediate entourage . |
| 27 | And here were people who wanted him not just for the name on the letter-head , but because they thought he could make a positive contribution . |
| 28 | Hereward 's own background needs clarifying in case there are other people who wanted him dead.Dersingham , and by extension Vanessa , might have a motive , so I need to know where he 's got to in his search for a putative heir . |
| 29 | The Kingdom of God means the reign of Jesus Christ over those people who acknowledge him as Lord . |
| 30 | I learned later that he thought stupidity the norm for human behaviour , and that no one was as stupid as passengers , politicians , pressmen and the people who employed him . |