Example sentences of "[pron] they [vb past] him " in BNC.

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1 Spoiling his fine Lace Coat , which they told him came out of the Treasury " .
2 It was held that a manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him , with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care .
3 A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them –o reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him , with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products is likely to result in injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care .
4 Lord Atkin laid down the narrow rule in Donoghue v Stevenson [ 1932 ] AC 562 : A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in an injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care .
5 He had attended endless meetings which they accused him of dominating .
6 They demanded an even more radical approach to delinquency that would tackle not the individual offender but the wider deprivation and social injustice of which they considered him the product .
7 He told me he sometimes hated his face , hated his body because of the ease with which they helped him to dominate others .
8 The one they took him for in the end , she was eighty-five years old , and ailing , and he robbed her of her life-savings , and that was less than three hundred pounds .
9 like to look after my mother , er she was one , and she died now erm she died two years ago , I think she was one of the first to go and er , the other one they fetched him out of the street the chap then they corresponded with him up to the war but , but after that , they , I do n't know whether they stopped writing because of the war , I do n't know , but they never , never got in touch with them never again so
10 And they told him they told him he should n't even be on that .
11 They confined him , and in the morning when they went to release him they found him dead . ’
12 When Greg offered to drive her they gave him a similar warning .
13 He was , he was , th they they took him , they chained him up , and they let him loose in the local cemetery , and left him there .
14 Y er er th they they kept him there , they they I think they were hopeful , they were hopeful that he being a republican from Ireland , that er he he c he c he could have been used , you know by the Nazis in er in their general propaganda , directed to Britain er with a Irish er slant on the situation , but er it 's quite clear that er that they were never able to use .
15 When some designer friends saw it they persuaded him to get it ready to market and it was ready just in time for Esher 1990 .
16 He had to take what they gave him though .
17 The police think that the prowler — that 's what they called him , not me — was disturbed and made off across the car park . ’
18 ‘ I wonder what they promised him ? ’
19 They told the president what they wanted him to know …
20 Or at least , that was what they wanted him to think , he suddenly realised .
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