Example sentences of "he [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes . |
| 2 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
| 3 | So he sold them for four X. |
| 4 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 5 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 6 | ‘ What are they looking for ? ’ he asked them without any preliminary greeting . |
| 7 | Captain 11 times , he repaid them with 3915 runs , 12 centuries , an average of 43.98 , and an adhesiveness more commonly found in tubes of Araldite . |
| 8 | As for the case made against the versions in the Classic Anthology — that by using rhyme they align themselves with the closed poetry of print and not with the open poetry of the speaking breath — the obvious retort is that , although in these poems Pound often rhymes , he writes them in free verse , and in a free verse where the syllables are weighed , and the varying pace controlled , as scrupulously as in anything else he has written . |
| 9 | He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy . |
| 10 | He trained them to regular confession , and whenever any one of them was dying would prepare them for death , and be thankful when they died in penitence , peace and hope . |
| 11 | If you want children now , and he wants them in five years , or you want two and he wants six , you can probably reach a compromise . |
| 12 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 15 | erm And he describes them in these terms because of course this is how he sees them from different angles while rounding a series of bends on the road , so that in fact he describes the movement which his senses perceive , not the solid immobility to which his intellect testifies . |
| 16 | When he divorced a wife he would set her up in a house of her own with her children ; and as his twenty-seven sons came to maturity he directed them into various different occupations , to ensure a spread of enterprise which would be useful to all of them . |
| 17 | ‘ Where goods are sold in market overt , according to the usage of the market , the buyer acquires a good title to the goods , provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of any defect or want of title on the part of the seller . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Where the seller of goods has a voidable title to them , but his title has not been avoided at the time of the sale , the buyer acquires a good title to the goods , provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of the seller 's defect of title . ’ |
| 19 | He was the first to admit that he had been psychologically screwed-up when he joined them after eleven years with the elite American anti-terrorist squad , Delta — a state of mind that had come about as a result of his last Delta mission . |
| 20 | His two teenage sons were fanatically keen on farming and he encouraged them in all the agricultural skills ; but he fed the calves himself . |
| 21 | He welcomed them with open arms , talked freely , played draughts with the younger and learned tables from the elder . |
| 22 | He sees them as little jokes , the same way he sees Miro . |
| 23 | erm And he describes them in these terms because of course this is how he sees them from different angles while rounding a series of bends on the road , so that in fact he describes the movement which his senses perceive , not the solid immobility to which his intellect testifies . |
| 24 | He addressed them in short , pithy sentences and promptly began his interrogation of each of them . |
| 25 | He ordered them with grim concentration . |
| 26 | He surrounded them with barbed wire . |
| 27 | We all have people in our churches who have this sunny disposition , who can chat unselfconsciously with the shy and defensive newcomer , and so relax them that quickly and imperceptibly he takes them from small talk on to more serious matters . |
| 28 | He advises them on obscure medieval manuscripts , on 19th-century poetesses of Accrington , on King Arthur , on archaeology , on the cult of the saints , all with equal facility and depth of knowledge . |
| 29 | He called them by this name because , he said , they went ‘ floppy ’ when you shot them . |
| 30 | He watched them for two minutes , but they did not move . |