Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] they [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He planned to keep them idle , like some ship 's crew becalmed miles from shore . |
| 2 | Beaten to death : A 45-year-old married man was beaten to death in Cardiff by a gang of teenage vandals after he tried to stop them damaging traffic bollards . |
| 3 | He has placed them both on the sofa under the magnificent painting of a Ramayana demon by his Thai protegé , not facing one another across his huge desk , to indicate that this is an intimate and informal interview , not to be taken too seriously whatever she says . |
| 4 | He has to wear them all the time , but he does n't wear them all the time |
| 5 | He has ignored them all . |
| 6 | ‘ A fil-thy temper — he has thrown them all out , he has thrown them all out of the window . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ A fil-thy temper — he has thrown them all out , he has thrown them all out of the window . ’ |
| 8 | He wants to visit them all , while minimising his time on the road . |
| 9 | ‘ Did you have a — ? ’ good trip , Leith might have said , but as if thinking he 'd given them enough time to sort themselves out , Naylor was butting in , and positively flabbergasting her by what he chose to interrupt with ! |
| 10 | It thrilled her that he 'd called them that . |
| 11 | He got there at four o'clock he had four fish he could catch I think out of the ten for the week cos he caught the others and he 'd caught them all by half past four . |
| 12 | Even after bidding a fond farewell to Ben and Carole Meadows , there still had n't been the opportunity to have anything other than a few brief casual words with Ross as he 'd driven them all back to New York . |
| 13 | ‘ The next minute he 'd picked them both up and thrown them out of the window . ’ |
| 14 | He reminded them that yesterday he 'd bought them two tins of Coca-Cola . |
| 15 | They begged him to desist , in order to give them some words of edification , and for two consecutive hours he proceeded to give them excellent exhortations , while at the same time never ceasing his writing — and all the while what he was writing was not the same as what he was speaking . |
| 16 | And er , then he would carry all your goods in , in , I used to think it was wonderful how he managed to pick them all up in his arms and he 'd walk round to the next counter where your other , you had your other dry goods you see , your tea and sugar and your fruit and er then it would all be totted up together . |
| 17 | Had he meant to give them that special significance ? |
| 18 | He had supported them all their lives and what had they ever done for him except wait for him to die ? |
| 19 | Tommaso described , rapidly , one of the many round stone shelters scattered in the olive groves outside the town , on the road which led to the sea from the farm where he had visited them last Easter . |
| 20 | He had seen them all before . |
| 21 | His instructions were clear ; he had repeated them many times . |
| 22 | In the cafe she found Fosdyke nursing a malt whisky ( 'Kept for me specially by Carlo because I was once able to do him a favour' ) and the children occupied with a Space Invader machine for which he had advanced them hundred lire pieces . |
| 23 | He had known them all his life , of course . |
| 24 | He had known them all , two whole generations , Wordsworth , Coleridge , de Quincey , Lamb ; Mme de Stael , Goethe , Schiller ; Carlyle , G. H. Lewes , Tennyson , Clough , Bagehot . |
| 25 | He had told them many a fairy story and when they checked , they returned more furious than before , dragging him out of his dirty , fetid pit back into the great vaulted torture chamber to be questioned once again . |
| 26 | Next day , McMartin 's parents had noticed that he was taking a great interest in news of the murder and he had told them some things about the incident . |
| 27 | He had found them scruffy , and had said so in no uncertain terms . |
| 28 | After thoroughly investigating their backgrounds and their political beliefs , he had approached them one by one . |
| 29 | He had left them two small crates , and yesterday Ruth had helped Gran pack up her lovely old china — fragile blue-and-white majolica ware , Staffordshire teapots and Bristol figures , mostly chipped or cracked , but still beautiful . |
| 30 | Could he bear to see them wired-made vulnerable to the least whim of their lords and masters ? |