Example sentences of "he [verb] they [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stabbed them many times after they were dead . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He offers them another unsettling peacemaking idea ; they invent another excuse for turning it down . |
| 4 | He asked them this question , do you believe that I am able to do this ? |
| 5 | So watch them for a while and then he started dancing with them and he dance them all night and he just get in his hand . |
| 6 | They sported ditches and hedges and he built them proper jumps in the hedgerows to practise over and life got far more earnest and dangerous . |
| 7 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 8 | He told them dirty jokes , irrepressible as ever . |
| 9 | He told them marvellous stories — Irish legends , fairies , all kinds of things . ’ |
| 10 | Then he told them terrible stories of his wild and criminal life at sea . |
| 11 | And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and he told them this parable saying , what man among you , if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them , does not leave the ninety and nine in the open pasture and go out to the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 12 | He told them This Island Story from Wat Tyler 's point of view . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | President Borja ended months of hostility between the government and the Quechua , Achuar and Shiwiar tribes , representing 148 communities and an estimated 20,000 indigenous people , when on May 13 he granted them legal title to more than 3,000,000 acres of homelands in the eastern province of Pastaza . |
| 15 | So the cock and the hen allowed him to take a glistening burnished black and emerald feather and a soft creamy-white feather , and he bade them all good-bye and went into the clearing , and called to the West Wind , holding up his key . |
| 16 | Is he doing them this year ? |
| 17 | He called them white inseficus full of dead mens ' bones , but looking nice on the outside . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His face was moving a little , twitching by one eye , but he saw them this time . |
| 20 | Even Sal and Kitty turned up their noses when he offered them such delicacies as black bananas and bruised apples . |
| 21 | From time to time he brought them small presents of coffee and sugar , although he was always slightly shy and embarrassed about giving them . |
| 22 | , he he owns them big stud , Beech House Stud , that 's a all along Ashley reach right down here to your , to , to Upend , you know land . |
| 23 | Cash freely revives his back catalogue , fine by me — he gives them new life and a new generation deserves to hear where Nick Cave got ‘ Wanted Man ’ from . |
| 24 | He gives them tremendous know-how , and the fact that he has been out for so long wo n't affect him . |
| 25 | In return he gave them other ground at the rear of the church and also on the right-hand side of the new road and bordering Killicomaine Road . |
| 26 | Suffering badly — as usual — from boils ( he gave them all nicknames ) — ‘ it 's the badness coming out , ’ they would say — disenfranchised in the great educational paperchase , neither a macho miner nor a successful exception , he was a nobody in the middle of nowhere with no prospects . |
| 27 | Then he gave them another wave . |
| 28 | He gave them several assurances , with which , apparently , they were satisfied , but the right hon. Gentleman will not give details of the assurances . |
| 29 | With Alec , he gave them fresh facts . |
| 30 | He gave them some thought , then extracted two and stowed them in his hip pocket . |