Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Start teaching him to read so he 'll behave like the experts say he should ? |
| 2 | From the moment Galwey won his first international cap against Namibia two years ago the experts claimed he was too short for an international lock forward , too slow to be an effective No 8 . |
| 3 | The organiser of a country show which failed to pull in the crowds says he 'll be holding a full enquiry into what went wrong . |
| 4 | The crowds loved him and he wanted to be rewarded accordingly . |
| 5 | The crowds adore him , and he knows it . |
| 6 | ‘ One of the labourers recognised him . |
| 7 | Maxim did his best to shrug inside the ropes wrapping him to the chair . |
| 8 | A young artist , the mines fascinated him . |
| 9 | The landlord , who felt that the explanation — indeed , to all intents and purposes , the apology — he had made for his wife was more than enough to compensate for any gentlemanly inconvenience , was about to get back to his work in the fields when his visitor 's too casually direct questions about the mines charged him to stay . |
| 10 | Although his chains still held him tight , the slavers grabbed him and burnt him with searing irons . |
| 11 | And none of the giants want him . ’ |
| 12 | Had he known the facts of the attempts to reach him , the trapped man would have despaired of ever being rescued alive . |
| 13 | In February 1986 , he wrote an article in The Guardian attacking the Kilmuir rules as ‘ much too wide ’ and setting out the attempts to silence him , quoting letters from the Lord Chancellor ( Hailsham ) . |
| 14 | He added that disaffected factions within the BBC opposed to Mr Birt 's programme of reforms may have been behind some of the attempts to destabilise him . |
| 15 | Whenever she could afford it Nina tried to buy one of his drawings , but most of the artists thought he was simply a nuisance and told her she was wasting her money . |
| 16 | If one quarter , in value , of the creditors request him to convene a meeting to appoint a new trustee , he must do so ( s 300(3) ) . |
| 17 | Sir William Hamilton paid the bills ( as the creditors knew he would ) , and in his will he left her £300 and an annuity of £800 , which should have enabled her to live comfortably though not perhaps ostentatiously . |
| 18 | The deputies ordered him to do so by July . |
| 19 | It was not surprising that the police and the courts saw him not as a threat , scarcely even as a nuisance , but an eccentric example of English political freedom . |
| 20 | On television , detective series end at just the right moment , after the criminal has been caught and before the courts turn him loose . |
| 21 | Anyway , the Perm leapt up and booted Charlie a couple of times in the ear with those famous feet until the heavies pulled him away . |
| 22 | A few of the ducks notice him . |
| 23 | Chapman became a target man in more ways than one as the Germans singled him out for a buffeting that went unpunished by Swedish referee Rune Larsson . |
| 24 | The Germans evacuated him to Athens then to Salonika . |
| 25 | He did n't like the country and used to say that the birds kept him awake . |
| 26 | With a great cry the knights followed him . |
| 27 | hurried to the woods to meet him . |
| 28 | The Russians denied him the decisive pitched battle on which he had counted . |
| 29 | The Muslims saw him as a Russian , the Russians saw him as a Muslim . |
| 30 | He stood out among them not only because he had a surer command of his people at home , but also because Cuba is where it is , so the Russians helped him much more than the rest . |