Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [vb pp] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls were still there , standing where he had seen them earlier . |
| 2 | The books were lying on the bed , where he had left them . |
| 3 | Wycliffe put them all back where he had found them for Scales to look at . |
| 4 | Both his hands were stinging where he 'd skinned them . |
| 5 | He gloried in the cunningness of it , the feeling of having outwitted the others , of knowing what they did not ; that he was out and away and they were back there where he 'd left them , ignorantly worrying where he was , searching ; wondering . |
| 6 | No longer would he have to pin all his hopes on the random burglaries that he 'd carried out in that first couple of days , none of which had turned up anything better than a shotgun or a low-calibre target weapon ; those were useless for his purpose , and he 'd left them where he 'd found them . |
| 7 | And although he had promised they would return to the seaside house , somehow they never had . |
| 8 | He 's therefore not been able to contact his girlfriend , he 's not been able to see his children , er , although he has missed them very much . |
| 9 | ‘ Did , until your father died , ’ said Charlie , regretting the words immediately he had spoken them . |
| 10 | Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ? |
| 11 | Perhaps once he 'd gone they realized that they were better off without him . |
| 12 | Once he had confirmed they were alone , he knocked on the window , startling the two of them . |
| 13 | Once he had warned them , he contacted Kragan in the main house . |
| 14 | Yet again the official syllabus and scheme of work may recommend the purchase and use of local materials gathered from the local environment when official administrative regulations preclude the headmaster from purchasing these and fail to provide him with any facilities for storing them once he has obtained them . |
| 15 | It is very rare for a farmer to allow us access to his fields once he has seeded them . |
| 16 | They know he would n't rest until he had seen them hanged . |
| 17 | He added nothing more until he had brought them deep into thick woodland , threaded by a single open ride , where deep wheel-ruts still showed here and there in the moist ground , even after so many days . |
| 18 | He 'd find that Way Out , but he would n't leave until he 'd found them again and sorted them out . |
| 19 | A child putting a straw into each of the bottles in the crate will not know whether he has enough straws for bottles until he has distributed them one-to-one . |
| 20 | However , the confirmations wo n't be sealed until he 's checked them . |
| 21 | yeah , he looks like he 's taken them for protection cos he 's like and no one will come near with them cos they 're like , really if they 'd see ya |
| 22 | Perhaps if he had met them after the confidence gained by a successful tour of India in 1976–7 , when his captaincy was much praised , the story might have been different . |
| 23 | And if he had felt them , might have done something about them . |
| 24 | If he drew a chair or a pair of boots he managed to convey the effort of production that went into them , as if he had shaped them and fitted them together himself . |
| 25 | He had killed one girl and now , because another was missing , they had come as if he had called them , as if they were his slaves . |
| 26 | He would thus have been guilty of perjury if he had submitted them when they were not to the best of his knowledge correct and complete . |
| 27 | Always grumbling , he had threatened them with all kinds of dreadful punishment if he had caught them walking in St Andrew 's churchyard or sheltering in the porch . |
| 28 | Martha , guarding his jeans while he changed , admired him more for deciding against them than if he had bought them . |
| 29 | ‘ Miers could not take the German prisoners on board his sub , and if he had left them to paddle ashore they would immediately have gone back into the German forces … |
| 30 | He would have bullied the children if he had thought they were frightened of him . |