Example sentences of "he [vb past] they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this he made them both some cocoa and began the first of the Just So stories . |
| 2 | Most patients reacted to injections of a number of substances and he made them up custom made ‘ vaccines ’ of supposed antidotes . |
| 3 | A couple of months later he did come to the Hammersmith Odeon with Bernie and me to see them play I could seethe relief on his face when he realised they really were a band . |
| 4 | Counting out seven pound notes , he laid them carefully on the table . |
| 5 | The truth , more probably , is that he laid them aside to take on commissions for which he would be paid : at this stage in his life he could not afford to compose for sheer pleasure . ) |
| 6 | He laid them out like they were a pack of cards spread out around him for a game of patience . |
| 7 | He laid them out on Stephen 's desk and did his best to smooth them flat . |
| 8 | He laid them out on the desk , got a plastic bag out of the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet and swept all the bits and pieces into it . |
| 9 | He might also have said , as he had on countless occasions , that although he had constantly looked to the British for advice , he distrusted them acutely . |
| 10 | One by one he checked them off on his register , letting them stagger out into the corridor where the ghouls who liked disasters were already forming a pressing crowd . |
| 11 | After he 'd coated the segments in salt and chilli he passed them round , and everyone smacked their lips and screwed up their faces in pained delight . |
| 12 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 13 | The old grizzled grannies cursed him as he passed them by . |
| 14 | On the ramshackle desolate station at Latimer Road he met them dutifully changing cars , but instead of joining the Safeguards , found himself offering Jed and Abelard , his pet Harris hawk , a home at the School . |
| 15 | ‘ Where 's Oliver ? ’ he asked them furiously . |
| 16 | He asked them why elephants did n't ride bicycles and explained that it was because they had n't any thumbs to ring the bell with . |
| 17 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 18 | McAllister could not but agree with him , and had to stifle a grin as he led them around , the women staring , and the men , manifestly bored , dragged along to accompany wives and girlfriends who would , that night , describe their visit to the East End in terms that would do justice to a journey up the Amazon . |
| 19 | And then he led them out of the small room . |
| 20 | Father Peter asked as he led them out of the church . |
| 21 | He led them off , setting a furious pace . |
| 22 | They were ready now , and he led them back to the Saloon . |
| 23 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
| 24 | They did n't move either until they got one of the old horsemen : he got them away without any trouble . ’ |
| 25 | Anyway , for whatever reason , he got them out and we won the match . |
| 26 | In the end he got them out of me ; in every detail . |
| 27 | There was a box of matches in his top pocket , but when he got them out his hands were so wet that he could not make them strike . |
| 28 | That 's why he got them then . |
| 29 | They appeared at last and he got them safely off in one canoe . |
| 30 | He wiped them away , murmuring to her to forget about it , not to worry . |