Example sentences of "they [vb past] he [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked round them all as though none of them afforded him any surprise , though two of them did not belong here , and to his certain knowledge had been elsewhere only a short time ago . |
| 2 | Their nerve was a match for his ; they had most of them served him several years , for his men did not leave him . |
| 3 | Milton ward Tories were so impressed by his la-de-da-accent and gold-plated walking stick that they made him social secretary . |
| 4 | ‘ It must have been in the forest — ’ Joan said dreamily ‘ — because that is where they found him next day . |
| 5 | They joined him ten minutes later . |
| 6 | They paid him five guineas , or 5.25 for it . |
| 7 | They showed him great sympathy . |
| 8 | John did not want to see a doctor , but they overrode him this morning and had the quack in . |
| 9 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
| 10 | Each day they brought him cyclostyled sheets from their local agents , and the telephone numbers of friends ' relatives whose relatives ' friends had seen a board up somewhere . |
| 11 | As a result they offered him small parts in the next two films in which Ken would star . |
| 12 | No doubt they offered him two cups of coffee , extra sugar , a slug of cognac ? |
| 13 | They offered him hot wine and canella , surrounded him and talked eagerly in a mixture of Russian , French and Yiddish . |
| 14 | They gave him fortified water to drink . |
| 15 | He spent the night at their hut , they gave him soft water to wash in , bread and salt and a clean , sweet bed . |
| 16 | Some German military police took Tribe prisoner and locked him in a barn , where they shot him fifteen minutes later . |
| 17 | They wished him good night , then stood a while , blinking in the darkness , listening to the slam of the door bolts . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , ’ said Bridget , ‘ they held him all weekend , and tried everything they could think of to make him confess . |