Example sentences of "he [vb past] them [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
2 | So he sold them for four X. |
3 | 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 . |
4 | He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | He welcomed them with open arms , talked freely , played draughts with the younger and learned tables from the elder . |
9 | He ordered them with grim concentration . |
10 | He surrounded them with barbed wire . |
11 | He called them by this name because , he said , they went ‘ floppy ’ when you shot them . |
12 | He watched them for two minutes , but they did not move . |
13 | He robbed them of all dignity . ’ |
14 | He put them in central midfield — and he would have been rewarded with a vital home win but for Gary Speed 's late equaliser . |
15 | So Rob 's instruction was that he put them in those files and I did n't think it was a particularly good idea because everything 's easier to find if it 's in the envelopes that we 've put them in . |
16 | Yeah/ Which is highly improbable but he bought them for three pounds |
17 | he bought them for three quid ? |
18 | He greeted them with some impatience . |
19 | He kicked them to one side . |
20 | He rattled them between cupped hands and threw them into the dust . |
21 | He illustrated them with special drawings . |
22 | When God in his wisdom chose not to bless women with the same convenient appendage through which men pass water , he left them with little choice but to strip off and squat . |
23 | He left them in safe hands . |
24 | So they tied him with chains but the demonic powers were so great in his life that he snapped them like new cords . |
25 | But as Chomsky himself remarked when he abandoned them with some reluctance as theoretical constructs , these kernel sentences actually have considerable intuitive appeal . |