Example sentences of "he [verb] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at last they did see him coming they had to follow his slow path from the road , watch him lean his bicycle carefully against the wall under the yew and plod slowly up between the two rows of boxwood . |
| 2 | I half expected him to say they stole them from somebody 's garden but … |
| 3 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 4 | The blind man called the police when he realised they had stolen his brown leather wallet . |
| 5 | But he realised they needed much more evidence before they could arrest him for murder . |
| 6 | He presumed they had been written for him to use as references for his next employer , but he tore them up angrily . |
| 7 | And would he think they had stolen it ? |
| 8 | As a cool breeze swathed his sweat-drenched body he realized they had taken his clothes . |
| 9 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |
| 10 | Francis Galton had investigated the efficacy of prayer by seeing whether members of the Royal Family , often prayed for in church , lived longer than other aristocrats ; he found they did not . |
| 11 | He maintained they talked , and then the woman went upstairs , stripped , and lay on a bed . |
| 12 | He says they asked her to the disco . |
| 13 | And he says they told him to get out the building |
| 14 | He says they told us to wait for two hours which we did then they told us to wait another hour and a half . |
| 15 | He says they took everything . |
| 16 | He says they caused considerable damage to property , hedgerows were burned out , buildings affected , farmers ' own equipment set on fire and their own crops . |
| 17 | He says they had no regard for other road users . |
| 18 | He says they had no regard for other road users . |
| 19 | He says they had the space so they decorated in the grand manner . |
| 20 | He says they had to deal with more serious injuries than usual and it 's down to the lack of rain . |
| 21 | He says they lifted his eyelid up and just poured water in it and when they finished he says that he says |
| 22 | and he says they looked he says but I never forgot what I looked like , or what I when he started , but you ca n't join the boys ' service now . |
| 23 | He says they got some men in a van and tried to burn them . |
| 24 | He says they got up at four in the morning and went to their parishes in all weathers . |
| 25 | He says they met Julia when she left her secretarial college in Swindon . |
| 26 | He says they crashed into a wall . |
| 27 | He says they moved the office equipment out into vehicles . |
| 28 | He says they moved out of one of the best hotels , into a villa . |
| 29 | He says they stopped selling replica handguns because he suspected that some of his customers wanted them for possible criminal reasons . |
| 30 | He says they provided everything they needed , fresh fish , ice , everything . |