Example sentences of "[to-vb] him and they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In public , three times a week , he held a solemn consistory — which had previously fallen into disuse — in which he deputed the examination of lesser cases to others , while the major ones he dealt with himself so subtly and wisely that all wondered at his precision and skill and many educated and legally-learned men came to the Roman Church to hear him and they learnt more in his consistories than they had learnt in the schools , especially when they heard him give sentence . |
| 2 | Owen rose to greet him and they embraced like long-lost brothers . |
| 3 | He could do nothing to persuade them to join him and they had left it too late . |
| 4 | He got Ninagawa to join him and they have since produced an extraordinary row of classics , welding the individual psychological realism of European theatre to the formality of Kabuki theatre . |
| 5 | Then she ran to find Ferdinando to tell him and they embraced and it was he who said , ‘ She is an angel ! ’ of Mrs Browning and Wilson realised she had expressed not a word of gratitude . |