Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] he [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You did n't know that he acquired them through his wife who must have got them while she was housekeeper-companion to Mrs Armitage ? ’ |
| 2 | He says it 's a bit far to come but he thinks they pay expenses , so it 's nice . |
| 3 | I do n't know whether he sent them back . |
| 4 | He stopped when he saw them and asked if they wanted to come with him . |
| 5 | The grant payable depended upon the number of children who could read , write , and do arithmetic to the satisfaction of the individual inspector , and therefore it was not unnatural that every effort was made by the managers of the school , to see that the inspectors ’ tastes in such other matters as food and drink were duly considered when he visited them . |
| 6 | Maybe she would think that he wanted them . |
| 7 | Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal . |
| 8 | He says that he hopes they 've been able to reasure the people living nearby , and that the travellers will now quietly leave . |
| 9 | He says that he thinks they can all work together to promote each others farm attractions . |
| 10 | I hope that he learns them well , because he will need to deploy them for a long time . |
| 11 | He reminded them of all the things that he 'd said and done and he prepared them for their mission in the world . |
| 12 | He liked gentlemen to behave as he expected them to behave . |
| 13 | But his hands were trembling as he put them back in his pockets , and a thick feeling rose up in his throat whenever he thought of Helen , which seemed to be nearly all the time . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , the rich merchant was very powerful , and he came to control things in the city , and he made everybody do as he thought they ought to do ; snowball-throwing was made illegal , and children had to eat up all their food . |
| 15 | Everything in his relation to his slaves shows that he treats them as more or less human — his humiliations of them , his disappointments , his jealousies , his fears , his punishments , his attachments . |
| 16 | First , the Athenians who were dismissed from Ithome for ‘ subversive tendencies ’ were not the Athenians who were at that moment overturning the Areopagus but precisely Kimon and ‘ his ’ hoplites ( but we have no right to assume that he chose them personally ; four thousand are a lot of people to know by name ) . |
| 17 | that 's where they 're going cos he said they he 's not actually for the itself |
| 18 | He said there was so much stuff up there I could n't reel off what they 've got because he said they got everything . |
| 19 | Other women at the city council office where he worked hid when he chased them with a syringe filled with water , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 20 | He frowned when he saw them . |
| 21 | The memoirs are extremely detailed , yet Hickey states that he wrote them almost entirely from memory , having only a few documents available to him and those mostly from his later years . |
| 22 | He stiffened when he saw them and Devlin said cheerfully , ‘ Very pretty , son , but it looks to me as if someone 's been spoiling your good looks . ’ |
| 23 | On July 3 Brooke refused to describe the talks as having broken down , saying that he hoped they could be revived in the autumn . |
| 24 | we used to go every year be go round to erm for a bonfire but the old boy was saying that he said they ca n't afford it next year . |
| 25 | You note that he resented them , where them is plural , and you may consider what plural entity may be both resented and worn ( or not worn ) . |
| 26 | The young man and the girl did not see him coming and he caught them both around their legs and knocked them onto the floor . |
| 27 | Summers is assiduous in research , but less interested in politics ; there are sides of Hoover 's story whose ordinariness he misses because he finds them so shocking . |
| 28 | The way his hands tremble as he carries them into dinner is nothing short of alarming . |
| 29 | Wants you to be — ’ Nutty paused , not quite sure what he wanted them to be , but knowing that he wanted them to be something other than they were . |
| 30 | I doubt that he sent them back . |