Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thought occurred to him that he should give them some orders , but he could n't think of any . |
| 2 | Before he can deal with them systematically he must give them some permanence of form . |
| 3 | I do not say , either , that these rights and duties should be tied into one package , that if a young person wants to assume any of them , he must assume them all . |
| 4 | But he 'll want them all ? |
| 5 | Oh well , better go and say sorry , otherwise he 'll throw them all away . |
| 6 | He , he 'll have them all out . |
| 7 | When the little ones get big enough to come here , he 'll hate them same as he does me . |
| 8 | If it is a major accident to a wide bodied jet he could send them all . |
| 9 | Oh he used to wash them and he had a proper , he had a case what he made up with a rack so as he could drop them all in . |
| 10 | A skilled Nottingham engineer 's daughter of the 1920s remembers her father ‘ would never go to see his parents unless he could take them some money … |
| 11 | He could see them all far enough now . |
| 12 | He could see them all sitting there , earphones on their heads , giggling themselves silly at his expense . |
| 13 | He could tick them all off , one by one , the petty misdemeanours and misadventures of childhood , starting with the trespass on the railway line and ending , of course , with the murder at the Turk 's Head . |
| 14 | He 'd show them all , one day . |
| 15 | And he used to walk them all the way , I remember once him starting out er from what we call Hole , that 's at the top of the hill there , er starting out to walk them to Newcastle , and he took eleven . |
| 16 | And he used to wash them all , and , and er you know the manure fertilizer came in jute bags then |
| 17 | Perhaps soon , he would meet them both and ask that one question that he longed to ask : Why ? |
| 18 | She was four years older than Jessie but he would treat them both alike . |
| 19 | He would tell them some story — precisely what , he had not decided — and in due course they would check and discover its falsehood . |
| 20 | He would draw them both . |
| 21 | They were trying to wear him down , but they would fail ; he would find the Key , he would find the Way Out and escape from this joke , this awful solitary confinement for Heroes ; he would leave them all behind and take his rightful place in the greater reality again . |
| 22 | Well , he would make them all sit up and take notice . |
| 23 | Then she would go down to his cluttered little house in South Kensington with his hundreds of contacts ( for he was clever enough never to leave anything to chance ) and he would pronounce them all ‘ Absolutely Divine , ’ but at last succeed , with supreme anguish , in selecting one or two which were even more divine than the others . |
| 24 | He would of course estimate the supply prices of all these different factors of production of the cloth with reference to the amounts of each of them that would be wanted , and on the supposition that the conditions of supply would be normal ; and he would add them all together to find the supply price of the cloth . |
| 25 | Oh , before that she gave him strict injunctions to be sure to kill Horrible or he would destroy them all , which was duly done . |
| 26 | He would allow them half a day to consider this generous offer , otherwise the fullest attacks would continue . |
| 27 | At the end , the nobleman called them charlatans and beggars and told them that if they were his , he would have them all flogged and their noses cut off . |
| 28 | But leave him there alone and snared for as long as ten days , and yes , if he had by then any secrets left , he would confide them all in exchange for the air of the great court , and the music of the Office . |
| 29 | And next year 's student , or even next term 's , perhaps , depending on how quick you do it , your conversations , what you 're doing now , once they 're transcribed and put onto disk would be very interesting , because we 'll have a disk from our St Mary 's students , transcribed , because Steve promised he would get them all transcribed . |
| 30 | He would kill them all , like the true knight he was . |