Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] they [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was frightened by a prophecy that his downfall would be similarly brought about by one of his own children , so he ate them all at birth — HERA , POSEIDON , Hestia , DEMETER and HADES . |
| 2 | The defender averred that as a result of that announcement he telephoned Macfie & Alexander , speaking to Mr Rae , one of the partners , and told him to expect an offer of £70,000 from Ferguson & Forster and that he instructed Mr Rae that when the offer was received , he ( the defender ) would consider its terms and if he found them satisfactory he would instruct Mr Rae to accept the offer . |
| 3 | ‘ Lachlan 'll never let us hear the end of it if he clears them all out and us not with him — and we 've a week 's good behaviour to work off ! ’ |
| 4 | I can never tell cos he pinches them all . |
| 5 | He found that Turner by 1833 was painting trees unknown to any botanist ; probably he painted them because he saw them that way ; and indeed with the help of a lens the lecturer could turn a picture of a common tree into a Turner tree for the audience to see for themselves . |
| 6 | He said that he had taken into account the views of local authorities put to him since he met them last year , he might have taken in to account of course , we did n't accept any of the er er observations . |
| 7 | Before he grumps them all . |
| 8 | The hospital 's fifteenth-century chapel houses a small collection of works by Hans Memling : exquisite , jewel-like portraits and interpretations of biblical scenes and Christian legends , as vivid as when he painted them 500 years ago . |
| 9 | Trying to beat the tiredness and the sapping warmth of the room , and his eyes blinked when he wished them clear . |
| 10 | He was not averse to giving slaps and pushes when he considered them necessary . |
| 11 | He continued to wear glasses even when he found them unnecessary simply because they had become part of his image . |
| 12 | His wife and mother beamed at him as he kissed them all in turn . |
| 13 | He still irritated her with his casual dress , the sloppy tie hanging round his neck , the top button always undone , the lazy grin and teasing remarks in front of her colleagues , but as he teased them all she was in no way singled out . |
| 14 | Sequences of familiar violence are interspersed with achingly beautiful , melancholy moments , and Peckinpah marshalls a posse of bit part stalwarts ( Slim Pickens , Jack Elam , Richard Jaeckel , Harry Dean Stanton , Katy Jurady , Chill Will , Elisha Cook , Matt Clark , R G Armstrong ) and pays tribute to their contributions to literally hundreds of Westerns as he leaves them dead in the dust to the accompaniment of a Bob Dylan score . |
| 15 | As he pushed them open , they made a great scraping noise and Endill had to cover his ears because it was so loud . |
| 16 | Their heads were close together and as he appeared they all looked up in unison with startled faces and fell silent . |