Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] they [vb past] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sinqe , who holds his country 's national record of 2hr 8min 4sec , was due to run his first marathon outside the republic in the NutraSweet-sponsored event on 18 April but London organisers were left fuming when they discovered he had run a marathon in Japan a fortnight ago in defiance of his contract which stipulated that he should not run a competitive marathon within 90 days of the big race . |
| 2 | Lachlan was still snarling and kicking when they uncovered him , and they nearly broke his fingers trying to unfasten them from Farquhar 's neck . |
| 3 | ‘ The only way to find out would be to get the police to check it against the one he was wearing when they found him . ’ |
| 4 | I was surprised by the number of people who were saying that they disliked him , and by the degree of bitterness and the spiteful determination that he had to go . |
| 5 | I want to know whether we 're going to be blushing when they put him up in the Foreign Ministry at a press conference and he spills . ’ |
| 6 | They 've had him from the Wednesday , was it the Wed er , no from the Saturday to the Wednesday cos she was working and they took him on to seaside somewhere and when come home , he 's having stitches in his head where he 'd fell , he hit it on the stone or summat and I said oh did he enjoy it apart from that , she said he was a swine last night , he was screaming and hitting me and she called her husband down from work , she could n't control him , said she should of smacked his arse and put him in the cot . |
| 7 | But he was smiling as they helped him out of the herbaceous border . |