Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] he [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | But magistrate Maurice McHugh bound over five of the soldiers to keep the peace for 18 months because he felt they were not entirely innocent . |
| 2 | He did not tell his parents because he knew they would try to change his mind but he confided in a colleague at work . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly , he was a conservative captain rather than an adventurous one — James records that Worrell once said to him ‘ In cricket you leave well alone ’ , which , James felt , went deep into his method as a captain — but , for all that , he was not afraid of making changes if he felt they were needed . |
| 4 | For instance , if a magistrate dismissed most cases because he thought they were false , the proportion of thefts which were reported in his district might decrease because people would decide that it was useless to report them . |
| 5 | He wanted to see more ‘ young ladies ’ at matches because he thought they would ‘ raise the tone of supporters generally ’ . |
| 6 | Well round near us they terrorized an eighty three year old lady er near us and er it was a , I met the man next door and his wife and they were the ones that got the police because he said they 'd got her furniture out on the pavement to with a doodah up there . |
| 7 | He worked on numbers because he thought they controlled people 's lives . |