Example sentences of "he [verb] they [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says they refused to accept the import licence because it was written in German . |
| 2 | What , McLeish wondered acerbically , did he imagine his wife and surviving daughter were thinking about — or did he assume they had taken the death of a daughter and a sister in their stride ? |
| 3 | He said they had to allow the Japanese to retain their arms because they had not enough men to collect them . |
| 4 | He said he hoped they had laid the foundations for peace — but admitted obstacles could lie ahead . |
| 5 | He accepted they had thought the flat was empty and had been put under pressure by Allen to start the fire by squirting petrol through the letterbox . |