Example sentences of "he [vb past] them [prep] [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ What are they looking for ? ’ he asked them without any preliminary greeting . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His two teenage sons were fanatically keen on farming and he encouraged them in all the agricultural skills ; but he fed the calves himself . |
| 15 | He welcomed them with open arms , talked freely , played draughts with the younger and learned tables from the elder . |
| 16 | He addressed them in short , pithy sentences and promptly began his interrogation of each of them . |
| 17 | He ordered them with grim concentration . |
| 18 | He surrounded them with barbed wire . |
| 19 | He called them by this name because , he said , they went ‘ floppy ’ when you shot them . |
| 20 | He watched them for two minutes , but they did not move . |
| 21 | He robbed them of all dignity . ’ |
| 22 | He put them in central midfield — and he would have been rewarded with a vital home win but for Gary Speed 's late equaliser . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | he bought them for three quid ? |
| 25 | Yeah/ Which is highly improbable but he bought them for three pounds |
| 26 | He reminded them of all the things that he 'd said and done and he prepared them for their mission in the world . |
| 27 | Collinson was also instrumental in promoting the Dictionary abroad and , having become an agent for the Library Company of Philadelphia , he presented them in 1732 , with Sir Isaac Newton 's Philosophy and Philip Miller 's Gardeners Dictionary . |
| 28 | Edward looked delighted to see them and , after supplying them with drinks , he introduced them to several other guests . |
| 29 | He greeted them with some impatience . |
| 30 | He kicked them to one side . |