do the hard yards

To take an example from Chomsky (Knowledge (1986), p. 8), any native speaker of English knows that them can be interpreted as being coreferential to (i.e. referring to the same set of individuals as) the men in (5) (a) below, but not in (5) (b): (5) (a) I wonder who the men expected to see them (b) The men expected to see them

The whitish lines of exudate seem at times to penetrate even between the straight tubes . . .

He is contemptuous of Bambi lovers and those who don't speaka the English. He chews tobacco and spits, wears a checkered shirt and leather vest, keeps a gun in the trunk of his car […]