Example sentences of "he [verb] them [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking out a sheaf of documents , he laid them on the desk top . |
| 2 | He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted . |
| 3 | Anthony even claimed to have discovered ‘ maps of Ireland ’ on the sheets when he stuffed them into the machine in the local Launderette . |
| 4 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 5 | Boldly coloured ties draped Levinsky 's neck ( he sold them on the street ) , his synapses now like two eggs over light , in permanent sizzle , as he tried to move into stride with a young Cassius Clay . |
| 6 | When he sold them around the pubs and to neighbours that evening , the money would subsidise his meagre pension . |
| 7 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 8 | He met them at the gate and was smiling . |
| 9 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 10 | He thought of startling Fred and Daisy with a flood of Italian when he met them off the boat train at Victoria Station , but at the sight of them his plans fled for excitement . |
| 11 | Jim Lancaster 's lips twitched into a smile of relief and he led them towards the hall . |
| 12 | One of the crooks was picked up half-a-mile away and he led them to the tot who was sitting unhurt on a pedestrian walkway . |
| 13 | He led them into the kitchen , chatting to Blanche and Dexter as if they were house guests rather than police officers who had come to interview him about a murder . |
| 14 | He led them into the mortuary , and pulled the sheet back from the body of the girl . |
| 15 | He led them across the hall and through the dining-room , down a corridor and into what he explained was a private dining-room where members could entertain groups of friends or associates . |
| 16 | Instead , because his followers were anxious for a fight , he led them against the Auvergne , where there had recently been a conspiracy against him , which he wished to punish . |
| 17 | He led them round the range of the Ochils and swept through the strath down which the river Allan poured on its way to the Forth far behind him . |
| 18 | He slung them on the banister in a casual manner . |
| 19 | His hands were getting messy ; he wiped them on the creature 's cloak . |
| 20 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 21 | ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days . |
| 22 | He helped them into the railway coach , stood the dark lantern on the floor , checked the blinds and curtains with the torch , slammed the carriage door and flooded the whole place with good old-fashioned electric light . |
| 23 | With a gesture he drew them to the side of the corridor . |
| 24 | Though my son , that 's my eldest , in the Royal Navy , wrote that he has them in the Pacific . ’ |
| 25 | How does he recruit them to the cause of the critique of reference in language ? |
| 26 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 27 | Oh yes , but he wants them for the whole of the year you see , which is impossible . |
| 28 | He told them of the product launches during the year , Cruzcampo 's success at the Expo event in Spain , and the development of the new staff restaurant to replace the old canteen . |
| 29 | Under interrogation he told them about the ball of wax and , when he finally shat it out , they cut it open and found a letter . |
| 30 | He told them about the journey down , the woman in black , the taxi-driver . |