Sentence examples for ransom him from inspiring English sources

"Isis said that he was to remain their prisoner and they would ransom him for something.

His salvation was the exposure of the trafficking trade, after which his family were able to ransom him for $300.

In October 2006, an Orthodox priest, Boulos Iskander, was beheaded after he was kidnapped and attempts to ransom him failed.

They were planning to ransom him for $25m, and he has kept a low profile ever since.

But Assisi was soon defeated, and Francis spent a year in a dank prison, with rats, before his father was able to ransom him.

The police said they think they know who swiped Ronald and tried unsuccessfully to ransom him back for a few thousand Big Macs, but the crime is too old to prosecute.

A group of Somalis in Libya took pity on Mr. Abdi, ransoming him and taking him to Tripoli.

In 1991, Mauricio Macri was kidnapped by a group of rogue policemen, who held him captive for twelve days, before ransoming him for six million dollars.

However the Turks ransomed him back to his wife, and it was not before the young general Alexios Komnenos pursued him that he was captured.

Muhammad then later ransomed him in exchange for 2000 camels, 800 sheep, 400 armours and 400 lances, as well as a requirement to pay Jizyah.

Prosecutors said his plan was to kidnap the victim at gunpoint, hold him for ransom and torture him by making him ingest LSD.