Example sentences of "he [vb past] they [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made them each a cup of tea , listing other jobs for which he was not suitable . |
| 2 | Equally remarkably , he made them open their pockets , so that they gave with extraordianry generosity when other communities as far away as Italy suffered disasters like their own . |
| 3 | He stabbed them many times after they were dead . |
| 4 | He stuffed them all down his mouth and his nose , all his hankies ? |
| 5 | He said that he had taken into account the views of local authorities put to him since he met them last year , he might have taken in to account of course , we did n't accept any of the er er observations . |
| 6 | Taking no chances , he avoided them both in one long stride . |
| 7 | He asked them this question , do you believe that I am able to do this ? |
| 8 | I do n't know where he got them all from but it was always very interesting , and we worked our way through an album that was subsequently released . |
| 9 | He got them all from Barry Cross but gave his three-person Cycle Project Team to David Campbell . |
| 10 | Finally he got them all into bed . |
| 11 | But when he insisted that the same warnings should be used on advertisements , and be bigger than at present , he got them furious . |
| 12 | He damned them all , saying the right answer was political ; full stop . |
| 13 | He wiped them clear and peered inside the smoking gap . |
| 14 | The passage was not some ghastly simile of war or territorial domination ( though heaven knows what the Iranians would have made of it ) , but just a pictorial explanation of the passage North said he read them next , from the third chapter of Galatians : ‘ Know ye therefore that they which are of faith , the same are the children of Abraham . ’ |
| 15 | Frankie often joined his classmates in taunting them because of their poor homes or absent fathers , yet in his heart of hearts he envied them all . |
| 16 | Then he invited them both through into his office . |
| 17 | They sported ditches and hedges and he built them proper jumps in the hedgerows to practise over and life got far more earnest and dangerous . |
| 18 | But the only noise he could hear coming from the barn was the men 's loud and regular breathing , and when he entered , he found them all asleep , including Troy . |
| 19 | He continued to wear glasses even when he found them unnecessary simply because they had become part of his image . |
| 20 | Not that he found them conflicting , still less was he offering a comparative mythology . |
| 21 | The defender averred that as a result of that announcement he telephoned Macfie & Alexander , speaking to Mr Rae , one of the partners , and told him to expect an offer of £70,000 from Ferguson & Forster and that he instructed Mr Rae that when the offer was received , he ( the defender ) would consider its terms and if he found them satisfactory he would instruct Mr Rae to accept the offer . |
| 22 | He found them both sitting there . |
| 23 | He found them enjoyable too and full of good advice on skin care . |
| 24 | ‘ Cafiero , that rich son of a pig , he came this way , tried to make the peasants rise on his own estates , ’ Davide 's father was talking , ‘ but he found them hard to excite down Acquaqueta way in spite of everything . |
| 25 | Seymour and Collins had diplomatic immunity ; he let them all depart back to London in their two cars fifteen minutes later , warning them that he would want Quinn , for whom there was no diplomatic status , available for the taking of lengthy statements in London . |
| 26 | The young man and the girl did not see him coming and he caught them both around their legs and knocked them onto the floor . |
| 27 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 28 | As for the three goblins , they crept back to the king of the vookodlaks and he beat them all , and made them stand on their heads in the mud for three years and thirty days . |
| 29 | He told them dirty jokes , irrepressible as ever . |
| 30 | He told them marvellous stories — Irish legends , fairies , all kinds of things . ’ |