Example sentences of "they [vb past] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following Monday some of them pursued him to a review that was taking place on Wimbledon Common , while others went to the City , occupied the Royal Exchange and picketed the coffee houses , carrying placards reading More Wages . |
| 2 | George , at one stage , tried to get up , but one of them hit him over the head with his rifle . |
| 3 | Then he slipped into a deep sleep , and all at once the warm feeling of happiness deserted him and his stomach heaved as he recognised the same old nightmare returning : the walk along the jetty , the cruel hands dragging him to the edge , the utter helplessness as they lowered him into the icy water , the wave that broke over his head — and at last , that terrible choking sensation . |
| 4 | They got him in the boat and they he had to lie down in the bottom of the boat and they and they covered him with a tarpaulin . |
| 5 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 6 | They laid him on the cool grass and bathed his forehead . |
| 7 | Eventually , they laid him on the bed in his own room , and undressed him . |
| 8 | Following this , they laid him on the bed again , and when he started to groan May said , ‘ He 'll live , ’ and turning and looking at Mrs Funnell , she added , ‘ Unfortunately , ’ before marching out of the room . |
| 9 | I think sometimes I ca n't help but think it 's how they made him in a way , you know , like I , you , sometimes your , I think you should sit down and play with something , but he wo n't sit quiet and amuse himself |
| 10 | They battered him over the head and threatened him with a shotgun . |
| 11 | They asked him for a swimming pool and a better playground , but he was n't making any promises . |
| 12 | Lionan , the dandy , was talking behind his hand to the brutal Mullach , who was gulping his beer moodily and staring at the serving maids as they passed him in a bustling procession . |
| 13 | The rich merchant thought the children should always salute him and call him ‘ sir ’ when they passed him in the street . |
| 14 | Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner , but they led him to an opposite conclusion . |
| 15 | They led him through the great court and round the cloister to the flank of the east end of the church , where the mitred graves of the abbots lay . |
| 16 | They attacked him with a gun barrel before escaping . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They regarded him as an oddity . |
| 22 | His old friends the overseers did him proud to the very last : in their generosity they provided him with a 14s. funeral . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Two days after I did the tattoo they found him on a street in Los Ilusiones . |
| 25 | And they found him on the floor ? |
| 26 | Perhaps they used him as a mine-detector ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Some entrepreneurial showmen then decided they would try to make money out of his popularity and they caught him with the hope of transporting him to London to put on display . |