Example sentences of "[pers pn] [subord] they [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aidan was a better authority on women than any of the rest of them so they followed him willingly . |
| 2 | One of the white thieves came with a whip , cutting legs , backs , faces ; drawing blood ; roaring at them until they understood he wanted them to stand up . |
| 3 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 4 | What was to stop anyone just shooting him if they thought he was worthless to them ? |
| 5 | For example , a social worker felt that clients could speak more openly to him because they knew he could not recognise them in other contexts , and a counsellor reported that her clients would sometimes say that they could speak more openly knowing that she could not see them . |
| 6 | That 's why sometimes they got mad at him because they knew he was talking to them and about them and they knew that it applied to them . |
| 7 | Eventually they murdered him because they disliked him so much . |
| 8 | People are doing it for him because they loved him very much and he was a very funny guy as well as a kind person . |
| 9 | I have n't seen him since they took him away , screaming his head off , with Jonathan Johns telling everybody gathered round that it was all my fault , bloomin' unfair because I ca n't help it if Pitt has the kind of bones that break easily , can I ? |
| 10 | They heard him before they saw him . |
| 11 | Tommy , inset left , killed him when they thought he owned them £25 . |
| 12 | Another man , a social worker got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 13 | Another man , a social worker , got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 14 | The children had been told to write answers to what happened to Jesus in the temple : What did He do there ? and what did His parents say to Him when they found Him ? |
| 15 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 16 | He seemed so fiercely shut up in himself that Ruth was afraid people would start seriously meaning it when they called him mad . |
| 17 | sat there watching them catch him up he did n't see them before they got him stopped like . |
| 18 | The dead king seems mesmerized by them as they lead him gently but determinedly down the long ramps . |
| 19 | He realized that their loyalty was the firmest basis of his own personal power , that he needed them as they needed him . |
| 20 | Outside , in the thickening light of the late afternoon , with the rain trickling into his eyes and under his scut , he watched them as they joined him . |
| 21 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |