Example sentences of "he [verb] they [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were bulging-full , he stitched them closed with a curved needle and woollen thread and laid them ready in a pile . |
| 2 | He says they crashed into a wall . |
| 3 | he sez they went to several addresses but then the driver surrendered himself at the police station . |
| 4 | Only the style and tone with which he expressed them evolved in unison with the avatars of a progressively deepening international crisis . |
| 5 | He kept the glasses trained , and as he watched they turned into a herd of about seven buffalo filing slowly in their direction . |
| 6 | She was a fine person and he knew they related to each other , shared the same sense of humour . |
| 7 | And so we find that , apart from its use with predicate qualifiers , keep can also figure as the verb in an adverbal response to the question What … do to … ? ; as in : ( 36 ) what did the President do to the rebels ? he kept them incarcerated in Castellòn till 1835 Notice the inappropriate relationship of the question with how ? in this case , confirming that we are not dealing here with a predicate qualifier : ( 37 ) how did the President keep the rebels ? |
| 8 | So he said they said to him well go with Mark and he 'll show you the what to do . |
| 9 | He said they looked like ‘ a beautiful couple together ’ . |
| 10 | He used to go out in the air raids and watch the anti aircraft shells bursting in the sky because he said they looked like beautiful flowers . |
| 11 | He said they appeared to be happy with their sojourn into the wilds . ’ |