Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] he [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | and ma and my group leader he er he 's already got about nine cars cos he collects them anyway ! |
| 2 | After all , as he wrote in his diary : ‘ Muhammed bin Tughluk was especially well known in his generosity to foreigners for he preferred them to the peoples of India . |
| 3 | For her flaming tresses — burning like Isabel 's on her son 's sweet lips as he drew them through his fingers , drowned in them … |
| 4 | No sooner had she begun manufacturing a few defences than he demolished them with a flick of his finger . |
| 5 | He was nicknamed ‘ The Resurrection Man ’ because he would row up and down the river by night , fishing up floating bodies — and picking their pockets before he handed them over to the police and claimed his reward . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Erm and he said that erm many people have peasant , these peasant associations er but peasants organized themselves into peasant associations erm and there are four grades of peasant associations as he sees them . |
| 8 | The child can have his football boots because the words ‘ we ca n't afford it ’ will be linked to the long-gone and not-lamented past : the tyrant can not control against the will of the subject because he can not frighten his people with notions of helplessness and poverty : the employer will have to charm and wheedle his workers if he wants them to work for him : he will have to sing and dance to entertain them : enthuse them with pleasure for their daily toil : they will be paid with the world 's respect , and all around them there will be abundance . |
| 9 | seventeen thousand pounds if he gave them a free cup of coffee . |
| 10 | He never allows them to be shocked by finding out things before he tells them . |
| 11 | For Innocent , the vicar of Christ , the commission to St Peter to govern meant implementation of the aims of his predecessors as he understood them . |
| 12 | One day , when they were together and he had a good career , when he had his own house and a car and did n't need to walk and could afford taxis if he wanted them ; he 'd take that same route just for old times ' sake , try to recapture the uncertain ecstasies of that dark , early morning trek . |
| 13 | Mr Ross can have locked rooms if he wants them . ’ |
| 14 | He chose small trees because he wanted them cleared . |
| 15 | Sometimes the farmer will be almost desperate to be rid of his rabbits since he regards them as a pest which makes undesirable inroads into the profitability of his farm . |
| 16 | Er n back to these snaps that erm John takes but as I said they 're pictures of the rooms before he alters them , before he puts in a new decor , th the upholstery , furnishings and the erm |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Louis Shores foresees the student shaping his own course and his own curriculum , with the library providing the main means of achievement of his objectives as he sees them ; the teacher is to be available " when needed " . |
| 19 | ‘ Evening Landlord , Master Gates , ’ he spoke in a loud voice and exercised his usual habit of momentarily standing on tip toes as he addressed them . |
| 20 | If he can only argue to himself that they seem ’ interesting' it is highly likely that he does not really know why he is putting them in , or what he will do with the answers when he gets them . |
| 21 | Caspar was moving forward , frowning , inspecting the robes as he passed them , occasionally reaching out a hand to touch a fold of colour . |
| 22 | If I continue then with some introductory remarks erm on policy H one a and one A , perhaps that would set the scene er for the discussion , then Mr will very briefly erm look at the differences as he sees them between the two sets erm of projections . |
| 23 | The present writer has no experience in microbiology and could not tell the difference between bacilli and cocci if he saw them . |
| 24 | Zack knew this was not true , but he was aware he could have a very dangerous situation on his hands if he told them they were beginning to show cracks , and could not take more than another six days of numbing boredom and inactivity . |
| 25 | To Salmon he said he admired tribal sculptures because he found them ‘ raisonnables ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A DISTRAUGHT mum last night begged her ‘ danger man ’ husband to free their two young children after he snatched them at gunpoint . |
| 28 | A DISTRAUGHT mum last night begged her danger man husband to return their two young children after he snatched them at gunpoint . |
| 29 | Anthony even claimed to have discovered ‘ maps of Ireland ’ on the sheets when he stuffed them into the machine in the local Launderette . |
| 30 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |