Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exhorting him to breathe deeply they paraded him up and down beside the wire fence . |
| 2 | He could not for the life of him understand why they should wish to remain inside the cottage while the Domain was dusted with poisons . |
| 3 | Well a lot of our people said they liked him did n't they ? |
| 4 | they trained him did n't they ? |
| 5 | they did a feature on him did n't they the other |
| 6 | You see , they know him do n't they ? |
| 7 | She was n't in the mood to cope with Kegan 's heavy playfulness , the sort of labored gallantry he produced whenever they met at official hospital functions . |
| 8 | He asked why they were constantly hitting him when he was not retaliating . |
| 9 | One man , John Kelly , a former offshore worker and trained first-aider , claimed police told him not to interfere when he asked why they were not helping Mr Murphy . |
| 10 | His attention settled on the ducks on the lake but whenever he got near they fled in panic to the shore and sheltered under bushes and trees where he could not reach them . |
| 11 | When he got up they was like that . |
| 12 | As he drew near they heard the sickening crack of the rod striking flesh ; once , twice they heard it fall but it brought no anguished shout of pain in response . |
| 13 | Her owners fear this will leave Sami without the care he needs so they 're appelaing for a foster-mum . |
| 14 | He described how they heard a plane , and then came the searing flash and tempestuous roar , and then the utter unbroken silence of the grave . |
| 15 | He described how they went outside , and saw the flattened port , and hundreds of bodies lying right around them , their exposed skin scalded , and he remembered the obscene and chilling stillness of it all . |
| 16 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
| 17 | so when somebody says to him what sides your heart on and he says right they say no , he says yes it is |
| 18 | he said that 's , and yet he says now they 're moving but , by themselves he does n't need any , any anememas or enemas or whatever |
| 19 | He says sometimes they do get rogue tapes or summat . |
| 20 | He says maybe they could provide separate winter and summer sites for new-age travellers — but I feel we should be allowed to use any piece of land which is just derelict , like the Maxwell land in Oxford which was just being used as a rubbish tip . |
| 21 | He says fortunately they were n't badly hurt but one girl has a collar and those with neck injuries will stay in over night . |
| 22 | And he said something about he 'd once they 'd once had to work all one day and all one night a near the Regent Centre because er , something had gone wrong with the gas pipes because erm of flooding . |
| 23 | Markby battled his way back to the bar to place their order and when he came back they sat and looked shiftily at one another . |
| 24 | ‘ When he came out they said he 'd lost his mind so he went off to look for it and has n't been seen since . ’ |
| 25 | He noticed how they took chairs at some distance from one another and from him . |
| 26 | A : Tell her all babies will be automatically aborted unless good reason can he shown why they should be allowed to proceed to term . |
| 27 | If he hangs on they will say , ‘ Here is this man clinging to office , he wo n't take his defeat , he is trying to prevent the Labour Party from enjoying their victory . ’ |
| 28 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 29 | And he had a list which I 've , I 've got there and er I think he got two things suggested that were on his list from the group of people who were supposed to be aware and er about twenty things which he thought maybe they should have thought about , and had n't . |
| 30 | And then he was passing beneath the huge , towering Gates , and he saw how they stretched above him into infinity , and he felt the timelessness of the great Prison descend on him like a huge , unseen weight . |