Example sentences of "they [verb] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden . |
| 2 | It sounds to me with me being they got him the first the the their victims . |
| 3 | ‘ He was an expert on Russian affairs — as much of an expert as MPs get to be on anything — and they made him a junior minister to add credibility to their soft-line policy . |
| 4 | Well he , he did n't really say a lot , er they asked him a question and er he , he just turned round and said er we hope , we hope it 's er a peaceful solution , that er virtually saying he hoped it did n't come to war , and Christine turned round and said ‘ yes we want a peaceful solution ’ . |
| 5 | They dogged him the length and breadth of the country , wherever the small troupe of players appeared . |
| 6 | When he first started to air his views on intensive farming methods they labelled him a crank and hoped he would go away . |
| 7 | The three answering apparitions make him feel safer with their answers of … and yet he decides to kill Macduff for safe measure but as Macduff has fled he decides to kill everyone linked with Macduff though they pose him no threat . |
| 8 | They found him a teacher of clarity , whose lectures were the most enjoyable and most instructive which they heard during their training . |
| 9 | They found him a job as a Foreign Office translator . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | They send him a free one every six months ! |
| 12 | He did not feel happy when they told him the result . |
| 13 | Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working . |
| 14 | For the brutal oriental still held one ace up his sleeve , should they give him the chance to play it . |
| 15 | Well they phoned back and they said , can you tell your husband to take his car to National Tyres er , that insurance has sent him , and could they give him an invoice for the insurance company . |
| 16 | What happened was there was a burglar and er they went downstairs and they him over the head and then they put him a chair and they got the and he goes , what shall we , what shall we wrap him up in ? |
| 17 | When they assured him the deposits were in order , he assumed it was a payment due from a former employer . |
| 18 | In that year it was ‘ commonly reported by the commoners … that Mr Cromwell of Ely had undertaken , they paying him a groat for every cow they had upon the common , to hold the drainers in suit for five years ’ . |
| 19 | He called at the dogs , but they paid him no attention . |
| 20 | They paid him no attention . |
| 21 | Normally they paid him no attention between performances . |
| 22 | ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time . |
| 23 | Nor did they see him the day after that . |
| 24 | They tagged him the Nabob Of Sob , the Prince Of Wails and the Cry Guy . |
| 25 | When Midland Amalgamated headhunted him for the MD 's job at Pringle 's they offered him a Rover 3500 Vanden Plas , but Vic stuck out for the Jaguar , a car normally reserved for divisional chairmen , and to his great satisfaction he had got one , even though it was n't quite new . |
| 26 | They showed him the boat . |
| 27 | He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home . |
| 28 | Christian pilgrims always made sure to take a sample home with them , and then ‘ when anyone falls sick of a quartan or tertian ague or some such fever , they give him a little of this earth to drink . |
| 29 | * So I 've been a bad boy at times but they reckon I ca n't walk out on a job if I 'm in the Jungle and Matt 's temperamental which means he does n't normally work unless they give him a hamper full of white powder but he seems to have kicked it and there are n't too many dealers swinging through the trees like Tarzan out here . |
| 30 | he 's after something , h his apprenticeship so they give him a thousand pound |