Example sentences of "he [verb] they [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He laid them out on the desk , got a plastic bag out of the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet and swept all the bits and pieces into it . |
| 2 | And then he led them out of the small room . |
| 3 | Father Peter asked as he led them out of the church . |
| 4 | They were ready now , and he led them back to the Saloon . |
| 5 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
| 6 | The throng in front of Owen melted away , leaving his men exposed , so he drew them back into the shadows . |
| 7 | But he tricked them out of the deeds , then conned them out of £85,000 to buy a Bentley . |
| 8 | Shortly afterwards , he drove them back to the house , a half a mile away . |
| 9 | His successor , Majorian , is unlikely to have gained the support of the Burgundians in 458 , when he drove them out of the lands which they had received with the approval of the Gallo-Roman senators . |
| 10 | In silence , he drove them out of the hollow and back on to the track . |
| 11 | As they mature he leads them out of the harem to an independent existence . |
| 12 | To cut a long story short , he threw them out of the house . |
| 13 | When he handed them over to the Syrians , the major received a special word of thanks from representatives of the country which would , ten years later , help the Americans to bomb Libya . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The grand old Duke of York , he had ten thousand men , he walked them up to the top of the hill and back again . |
| 16 | They were like little nets : they were exactly the shape of a horse 's ears : he pulled them down over the ears , and they each had a red or blue tassel hanging on them . |
| 17 | Leaving Murti Lāl at the hut to guard the lambs , he wandered off into the mist , whistling to the sheep as he steered them up across the bare rock face to a higher plateau , where the ground was marshy and the grass coarse and wiry and spiked with reeds . |
| 18 | He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze . |
| 19 | He took them down to the station and sent them off to London by passenger train . |
| 20 | By imparting his enthusiasm to his pupils , impressing them most earnestly with the importance of their calling , he sent them out into the world with a store of self-respect which greatly contributed to uphold their position , and gave them an impetus to endeavour to raise its standard , which was often crowned with the most happy success ’ . |
| 21 | The centre forward , whom they nicknamed Ossie , wore his sideburns long and his shorts even longer — but at least he kept them on for the duration . |
| 22 | He tossed them on to the back seat and went to the passenger side of the car . |
| 23 | The only sounds in the room were the scratching of his pen-nib as he made each entry , and the chink of coins as he counted them out of the cash box — and the heavy breathing of Marcus Judge , who sat at the other side of the desk , his eyes fixed upon his son . |
| 24 | When the plan fell through , he put them back into the larder till the next time . |
| 25 | The grand old Duke of York , he had ten thousand men , he marched them up to the top of the hill and he marched them down again . |
| 26 | You pick them up again you put them back on the door , he chucks them back on the floor . |
| 27 | He pops them in at the white |
| 28 | Then he dragged them out into the cockpit , making one corner fast to the main sheet winch on the cabin roof and one to the starboard jib winch . |
| 29 | He was so angry he strung them up in the back of his open lorry , head downwards , like side of beef bound for some unhygienic market . |
| 30 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |