Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [vb past] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembers how people said he looked like a wild steer , gazing about on all sides , holding his head too high , and how they said his brain was buckish , and totally devoid of sober reasoning power . |
| 2 | I clearly understood why when I heard how they confirmed his view of the economy in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | These ‘ signatures ’ were mostly added by an employee of Kahnweiler 's when they reached his gallery ; this was usually , though clearly not always , within a few weeks of being painted . |
| 4 | He might even allow himself a wry laugh when he considers how the West has come to excoriate Ceausescu today , after all those years when they applauded his ‘ daring ’ dissent from Warsaw Pact orthodoxy , and acting as a thorn in the Kremlin 's body politic . |
| 5 | They forced him to draw money from a cash machine and then made him drive to his home in Moulton where they threatened his parents with a kitchen knife . |
| 6 | He had turned captured Russian officers and allowed them to ‘ escape ’ and make their way back to Russia where they became his agents . |
| 7 | The biggish ones were kept for the doctors at Dunstan Hill Hospital , just outside Newcastle , where they monitored his progress and adjusted his drugs . |
| 8 | It is easy , therefore , once again , to seen why Marx and Engels greeted Morgan 's work with such enthusiasm , and in particular why they took his side in a major controversy that arose in anthropology between him and McLennan . |