Example sentences of "he had [verb] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had supported them all their lives and what had they ever done for him except wait for him to die ? |
| 2 | He had seen them all before . |
| 3 | His instructions were clear ; he had repeated them many times . |
| 4 | He had known them all his life , of course . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |