Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had developed a terrible memory for who he drove and where he drove them to . |
| 2 | No he did n't er P C found some trousers , I 'm not sure where he got them from er and put them on for him . |
| 3 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 4 | Although he led them in Korea he was actually from the Cheshire Regiment . |
| 5 | No sooner had she begun manufacturing a few defences than he demolished them with a flick of his finger . |
| 6 | He loved shrubs , especially lilac bushes , which Jean had consequently banned from her garden , so he brought them to our place . |
| 7 | As his father had shown him jewels , so he showed them to Grégoire . |
| 8 | His hands covered his face until he brought them into fists in front of him , in the way he often did , then he opened his arms along the length of me ; his palms warm , close , without touching , cruised first my shoulder , then the weight of my breast under my hair , my hip , my stomach . |
| 9 | Their disruptive behaviour was proving a headache to Mr Jones until he discovered the elephants could be kept at bay if he fed them with their favourite fruit pears . |
| 10 | Angrily , as if he blamed them for his loneliness , he set about his fri ed eggs and bacon . |
| 11 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
| 12 | In the Concerto especially , both soloist and conductor take the work entirely seriously , and make a substantial case for it as one of the leading Concertos of its time — the days are leaving us at least when Gershwin 's ‘ serious ’ works ( those are n't my scare quotes ) were treated like the fortuitous good fortune of the upstart seven-year-old playing in big brother 's room , as if he composed them by accident . |
| 13 | ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days . |
| 14 | But the excuse which he gave had a genuine ring about it : he could not afford to go , for none would serve in his retinue unless he rewarded them with revenues from his own lands , which would entail a loss of status ( ‘ grant abesement de mon estat ’ ) which the king would not wish . |
| 15 | If Picasso was dissatisfied with the Cadaquès paintings , this was probably because he felt them to be too hermetic and abstract . |
| 16 | And if he differed from his contemporaries in ethical matters , it was only because he accused them of taking the Old Testament commands too lightly and superficially . |
| 17 | The proprietor must have thought that they were lovers because he showed them to the most secluded table in the place , talking all the while in rapid French , which she could n't understand at all , but which Piers had no trouble in comprehending . |
| 18 | His lectures were above all popular because he packed them with information . |
| 19 | Though these men were perfectly acceptable to Theodore , Wilfrid is said to have declared himself unable to serve God in unity with them because he regarded them as strangers to the Catholic Church ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 30 ) . |
| 20 | This was because he used them as guidebooks . |
| 21 | He would not believe anything till he saw them with his own eyes . |
| 22 | Mum Lynn said at their home in Faversham , Kent : ‘ We have kidded him since he bought them for school camp that he has n't taken them off . |
| 23 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |
| 24 | A DISTRAUGHT mum last night begged her ‘ danger man ’ husband to free their two young children after he snatched them at gunpoint . |
| 25 | A DISTRAUGHT mum last night begged her danger man husband to return their two young children after he snatched them at gunpoint . |
| 26 | He had to put archers and javelin-throwers of his own up all the climbable trees before he had them on the run , and lost a dozen men to no purpose . |
| 27 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 28 | ‘ There were some glazed onions and Duchesse potatoes round the fillet … our host put those on the individual plates before he handed them to Edith . ’ |
| 29 | And it had been easy to ignore them , not to listen , to walk away , when he believed them to be just dirt . |
| 30 | When he sold them around the pubs and to neighbours that evening , the money would subsidise his meagre pension . |