Example sentences of "him [subord] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Maxine goes it is good pe , erm a lot of children should be like him so they know how to defend theirselves . |
| 2 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 3 | The magician did n't seem to mind , especially as the two clansmen seemed very much in awe of him although they studied Benjamin and myself like two hawks would chickens , as if savouring the thought of a meal to come . |
| 4 | What was to stop anyone just shooting him if they thought he was worthless to them ? |
| 5 | The assembled kids would have more confidence in him if they continued to believe him a cop , rather that just the old man of one of their number chancing his arm . |
| 6 | His face had been hidden in the darkness , yet she thought she would recognise him if they met again . |
| 7 | Should there be any emergency he was to phone Dockhead police station , or they would phone him if they had reason to call . |
| 8 | They would not have recognized him if they had passed him in the street . |
| 9 | When she asked him if they had really been as beautiful as angels , he had told her abruptly to look at the portraits , just as now , sensing that she had been hounded out of the house , he had given her something to do , a task to occupy her hands and head . |
| 10 | Thinking of all the other men who would envy him if they knew . |
| 11 | He has an open-door policy , which means that staff are encouraged to come and see him if they have problems . |
| 12 | He is by no means as feeble as he appears , and the Homunculi will appear from area 65 to fight with him if they have not already been destroyed . |
| 13 | A freelance camerman will be the only person allowed near — and television companies will have to pay him if they want to include the footage in their news bulletins . |
| 14 | With Lindsey 's Corsair being the only one of its type in Europe , airshow organisers had to approach him if they wanted a Corsair in their flying display , and for the first few years John Allison and Lindsey flew all over Europe with the aircraft . |
| 15 | How could the government simply let him go — and what would happen to him if they did ? |
| 16 | Now he does say he would you know he even thinks he could be a Gold Cup horse and emulate Dawn Run I mean again it 's it 's great claims this early on but er they would n't be running him if they did n't think he 's got a chance . |
| 17 | If , for example , the retailer required a supply of cards for Mother 's Day , they would be little use to him if they arrived afterwards . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | but then they 've got er er said they they asked if they could rent his house off him until they got themselves sorted out . |
| 20 | Then I rather think his parents looked after him until they died . |
| 21 | The Macaber , the hooded , skeletal apparition , coming down from the Black Tower to dance amongst the plague-ridden townships of the Middle Ages , leading them in the dread danse macabre , forcing them to dance with him until they dropped … |
| 22 | ‘ But we wo n't tell him until they have established themselves in our soil . ’ |
| 23 | He dragged her after him until they stood over her father 's body . |
| 24 | I wan na see Pat see if she 'll look after Aaron on Friday night , but Gary says he does n't want Tim and Lorraine having him cos they smoke like a chimney |
| 25 | I wonder they do n't want him cos they paying for their own wo n't they ? |
| 26 | When the Bulgarians chose the Coburg Prince Ferdinand as their ruler ( 7 July 1887 ) , it was Salisbury who warned the powers not to eject him unless they had an agreed successor ready . |
| 27 | And the reason he remains friends with his ex-wives and lovers is that he 's a man 's man , essentially , he 's not the sort of man who would not have women friends around him unless they had , in some way , been involved with him . |
| 28 | People got tired of interviewing him because they felt they were being made fools of . |
| 29 | A number of women have told me they voted for him because they felt sorry for him , because he was a trier , a bit of an underdog , because he was a hubby figure , the man they would most like to buy a pullover for , a man who knows where his slippers are . |
| 30 | For example , a social worker felt that clients could speak more openly to him because they knew he could not recognise them in other contexts , and a counsellor reported that her clients would sometimes say that they could speak more openly knowing that she could not see them . |