Example sentences of "they [vb past] he the " in BNC.

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1 It sounds to me with me being they got him the first the the their victims .
2 They dogged him the length and breadth of the country , wherever the small troupe of players appeared .
3 I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking
4 He did not feel happy when they told him the result .
5 Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working .
6 When they assured him the deposits were in order , he assumed it was a payment due from a former employer .
7 ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time .
8 They tagged him the Nabob Of Sob , the Prince Of Wails and the Cry Guy .
9 They showed him the boat .
10 They called him the One-Eyed Guest and Elisabeth recalled how , when she was young , the peasants never harvested a field without putting out a sheaf for Odin 's horse .
11 They called him The King of Hell . ’
12 DAVID : THEY called him the Diamond Dog
13 They called him the bamboo man when they finally dared to discuss it .
14 But they called him the un-canny Scot .
15 DAVID : THEY called him the Diamond Dog
16 There were a man that used to come and they called him the gauger well we would likely call him the customs officer now .
17 They offered him the highest position in the land , second only to that traitor , if he would forsake me !
18 They gave him the leave which he sought .
19 They gave him the oxygen , to help him breathe .
20 And the idea they gave him the Sammy Davis Jr Award just infuriates me .
21 And they gave him the rowdiest send-off of the campaign .
22 The bank ca n't have believed him ; they gave him the sack . ’
23 FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo .
24 Penn wanted to set up an area of toleration for Quakers something like Lord Baltimore 's Catholic colony of Maryland and , as the Stuarts owed his family money , they gave him the land grant as part of a financial settlement .
25 The Government must have thought that he was worth the money when they gave him the job and they must value his advice .
26 When they gave him the MBE ( some said it should have been the Croix de Guerre ) for services to the Party , the club committee charged 10p a pint all day .
27 They sought no patent ; they ordered him to give information freely to their customers ; and they denied him the reward to which he believed he was entitled under the terms of his contract .
28 They demanded an even more radical approach to delinquency that would tackle not the individual offender but the wider deprivation and social injustice of which they considered him the product .
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