Example sentences of "[adv] he [modal v] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only he could tell them he was all right , in good shape , considering … . |
| 2 | Perhaps he could give them a bit of something Shakespearian . |
| 3 | If so he would give them all plenty to do off 10–11 . |
| 4 | Tinkerbell helps Peter get to Never Never Land so he can rescue them . |
| 5 | He watched Geraci walk all the way down the corridor before going back to his office , leaving the connecting door open so that if anyone came in he could see them reflected on Pertini 's portrait . |
| 6 | He watched Geraci walk all the way down the corridor before going back to his office , leaving the connecting door open so that if anyone came in he could see them reflected in Pertinis portrait . |
| 7 | And despite , you know , managed , he somehow he 'd get them through and get . |
| 8 | So now he would get them for something they might not have done . |
| 9 | I liked everything about it , I liked everything about it , mind you I had sore fingers to begin with , very sore , with the filing you see , but also er I was used to thing in a way because there was a little lock shop in mother 's yard er and erm home-made er home-made locks and he used to er and now he used to do them and stamp them and I us I worked his hand press for him before I was fourteen and they were for and they are still and my mother used to take them to Birmingham and erm I think he used to give me sixpence for doing everything I did for him . |
| 10 | He went to her , and told her how much he loved her , and that she was not to heed him ; it was the headaches that made him distracted ; that day he had been almost blind ; Mr Lamprey had suggested spectacles , and perhaps now he could afford them . |
| 11 | Today he would join them as a fully fledged student himself . |
| 12 | Well he 'd kill them . |
| 13 | But he was a man who needed to articulate his theories and here he could put them forward , embroider , reject , explore without the uncomfortable suspicion that his detective sergeant , deferentially listening , his face carefully expressionless , would be thinking , For God 's sake , what 's the old man dreaming up now ? |
| 14 | when he 's leaping about he 'll take them off |
| 15 | Sometimes he would ask them to leave ; more often they stayed , and let the welter of codes and commands and memos and messages accumulate round them . |
| 16 | Then he would place them on one of the old time boards which was er board about nine inches by nine inches and then hand that through the pigeon hole to the cashier and in front of him that cashier would laboriously count that money and agree the total there and then . |
| 17 | So then he used to segregate them : they go over there , and they go over there . |
| 18 | And then he could hear Them calling again … . |
| 19 | ‘ Then he can tie them up with the firm . |
| 20 | ( 10 ) He would concoct anecdotes and then he 'd tell them to me over and over again , you know , obviously not realizing that he 'd told them to me before . |
| 21 | The smaller bits we 'd look at for a time and then he 'd throw them on the fire . |
| 22 | And then he 'd harness them , all except the bridle . |
| 23 | Well I used to the grindstone was in the cart shed , you see , and er I used to turn the handle whilst he ground his knives down and then he 'd take them in the slaughterhouse , after he got them ground , and put them on this stone to get them smooth , to get a fine edge on the knife . |
| 24 | Now Regan 's response to this , exemplified in the imbecile 's fear , would be to insist that since ordinary usage almost seems to demand that we describe that unfortunate as recognising a snake , and because this is only possible of someone who holds the necessary beliefs , then he must hold them somehow and somewhere . |
| 25 | If Simon wants to keep the Human League , he said , then he should keep them . |
| 26 | He was not the most welcoming of hosts , alarmed at the thought of what one thousand men and horses could do to his winter 's supplies and forage ; but at least he could tell them that a large mounted party had indeed passed this way two days previously and had turned off out of this main Yarrow valley southwards , to climb by Altrieve to the high pass of Tushielaw , which would take them to the Ettrick valley . |
| 27 | At least he could tell them I 'm alive and all right . |
| 28 | Steven decided that if he could n't come up with a definitive artistic statement to impress the grown-ups , then at least he could impress them with the definitive bank statement . |
| 29 | The program designer in creating material of a much less familiar kind , needs a clear view of how the teaching unit may be used by a variety of teachers and how he may help them use it effectively . |
| 30 | After studying his agency 's current advertising he worked out alternative campaigns , demonstrating how he would handle them . |