Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they used him as a mine-detector ! |
| 2 | so they put him on a life support did they ? |
| 3 | So they put him in the kitchens . |
| 4 | For once they had him by the balls . |
| 5 | ‘ A couple of weeks later they dragged him off the ice in North Harbour . ‘ |
| 6 | Clearly they heard him in the Cornerways flats and in Sea House and in the Dasses ' house and in the lounges of the Queen Victoria Hotel . |
| 7 | I started keeping any post connected with finance away from him , and myself dealt with the usual household accounts such as the telephone and electricity , because even they sent him into a frenzy of checking and referring back to previous demands , an attitude completely alien to his normal temperament . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They may not have made him the finest British light comedian since his hero David Niven , but at least they rescued him from an uncertain future in Britain where he may have ended up as a cross between Roy Castle and Ronnie Corbett . |