Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 'e 'd nicked them off a woman 's washing-line in Brixton . |
| 2 | So I would like to see the old law brought back , which says that all the players in front of the kicker must retreat until the kicker or anyone behind him has passed them . |
| 3 | He had hoped for some more kumquats , the man in the bed next to him having peeled them all . |
| 4 | They were not valuable , so it was out of the question for him to have stolen them . |
| 5 | The audacity of the Ping Tiao in coming for him had shaken them . |
| 6 | Both the other candidates have been feverishly trying to assess what damage he has caused them . |
| 7 | God has led them to believe it was rational , but now apparently he has cheated them by unfairly slipping in a mystery . |
| 8 | He has placed them both on the sofa under the magnificent painting of a Ramayana demon by his Thai protegé , not facing one another across his huge desk , to indicate that this is an intimate and informal interview , not to be taken too seriously whatever she says . |
| 9 | When the children ask him why he has contacted them , he replies : ‘ for security and insecurity xor insecurity andor communication ’ ( 81 ) . |
| 10 | The number of people to whom he is a friend , if not because he has met them but because they know of the good works that he has done not only in Britain but throughout the world , must run into many hundreds of thousands . |
| 11 | He really does want to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of Himself — creatures whose life , on its miniature scale , will be qualitatively like His own , not because He has absorbed them but because their wills freely conform to His . |
| 12 | He has ignored them all . |
| 13 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 14 | They can only act as he has taught them . |
| 15 | But , talk to Stevely on the subject of how well he has taught them and this most modest of men will go off at a tangent , drawing attention to the extent to which both girls have been prepared to work . |
| 16 | Yet again the official syllabus and scheme of work may recommend the purchase and use of local materials gathered from the local environment when official administrative regulations preclude the headmaster from purchasing these and fail to provide him with any facilities for storing them once he has obtained them . |
| 17 | perhaps he has lost them by now . |
| 18 | Where the defendant is no longer in possession of the plaintiff 's goods because , for example , he has destroyed them or disposed of them , the plaintiff 's remedy is judgment for the value of the goods together with any consequential loss which is not too remote . |
| 19 | He has taken the off-scourings of this world , the apostle Paul said , those that were nothing , and he has made them into something . |
| 20 | He has called them here to listen to his news . |
| 21 | The arguments , as he has presented them to me both on earlier occasions and tonight , are , indeed , seductive . |
| 22 | ‘ Men have reason to be well satisfied with what God hath thought fit for them , since he has given them … whatsoever is necessary for the conveniences of life , and information of virtue . ’ |
| 23 | Eighth , they plant churches because ‘ God wants YWAM missionaries to build into local congregations the spiritual foundations ’ he has given them as a mission . |
| 24 | God placed the enforcing of Satan 's defeat in the hands of His servants and He has given them the authority . |
| 25 | Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ? |
| 26 | Anyone who wishes to contribute must catch the Chairman 's eye and the usual practice then is for the Chairman to call on the persons in the order in which he has seen them . |
| 27 | Charles Lazarus , the ANC 's Jewish lawyer , poured out to me his story of the negotiations for a settlement as he has seen them . |
| 28 | He 's therefore not been able to contact his girlfriend , he 's not been able to see his children , er , although he has missed them very much . |
| 29 | He has told them there 's no excuse and tough new action will be taken against those who persist in damaging the environment . |
| 30 | The truly effective manager is aware of the performance levels that can be expected from each individual and he has helped them to define their own targets . |