Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowds loved him and he wanted to be rewarded accordingly . |
| 2 | The crowds adore him , and he knows it . |
| 3 | ‘ One of the labourers recognised him . |
| 4 | Maxim did his best to shrug inside the ropes wrapping him to the chair . |
| 5 | A young artist , the mines fascinated him . |
| 6 | The landlord , who felt that the explanation — indeed , to all intents and purposes , the apology — he had made for his wife was more than enough to compensate for any gentlemanly inconvenience , was about to get back to his work in the fields when his visitor 's too casually direct questions about the mines charged him to stay . |
| 7 | Although his chains still held him tight , the slavers grabbed him and burnt him with searing irons . |
| 8 | And none of the giants want him . ’ |
| 9 | Had he known the facts of the attempts to reach him , the trapped man would have despaired of ever being rescued alive . |
| 10 | In February 1986 , he wrote an article in The Guardian attacking the Kilmuir rules as ‘ much too wide ’ and setting out the attempts to silence him , quoting letters from the Lord Chancellor ( Hailsham ) . |
| 11 | He added that disaffected factions within the BBC opposed to Mr Birt 's programme of reforms may have been behind some of the attempts to destabilise him . |
| 12 | If one quarter , in value , of the creditors request him to convene a meeting to appoint a new trustee , he must do so ( s 300(3) ) . |
| 13 | The deputies ordered him to do so by July . |
| 14 | It was not surprising that the police and the courts saw him not as a threat , scarcely even as a nuisance , but an eccentric example of English political freedom . |
| 15 | On television , detective series end at just the right moment , after the criminal has been caught and before the courts turn him loose . |
| 16 | Anyway , the Perm leapt up and booted Charlie a couple of times in the ear with those famous feet until the heavies pulled him away . |
| 17 | A few of the ducks notice him . |
| 18 | Chapman became a target man in more ways than one as the Germans singled him out for a buffeting that went unpunished by Swedish referee Rune Larsson . |
| 19 | The Germans evacuated him to Athens then to Salonika . |
| 20 | He did n't like the country and used to say that the birds kept him awake . |
| 21 | With a great cry the knights followed him . |
| 22 | hurried to the woods to meet him . |
| 23 | The Russians denied him the decisive pitched battle on which he had counted . |
| 24 | The Muslims saw him as a Russian , the Russians saw him as a Muslim . |
| 25 | He stood out among them not only because he had a surer command of his people at home , but also because Cuba is where it is , so the Russians helped him much more than the rest . |
| 26 | The Times called him ‘ the most complete gentleman of the cinema ’ . |
| 27 | Regular work for New Society and the Times launched him as a freelance editorial illustrator , and he has an impressive list of clients — in the '80s he drew all the covers for Penguin 's new editions of Anthony Burgess ' work , and his work has appeared in the Independent on Sunday , Observer , Radio Times , New Scientist , American Esquire and — among other things — in numerous advertisements and promotions for whisky in the UK , Ireland and the US . |
| 28 | The Times described him as ‘ the thinking person 's pianist … |
| 29 | Zen preferred to think that some alert recruiting officer somewhere , realizing the appalling threat a disgruntled Gilberto would pose outside the law , had bent the rules to let him in . |
| 30 | I agree with it and , for the reasons given him , I , too , would allow the appeal . |