Example sentences of "and [vb past] them [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dragged her eyes up and watched as , unhurriedly , he stripped off his heavy gloves and laid them across the bike before lifting his helmet off and balancing it in front of him . |
| 2 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 3 | He took the locket and the manuscript out of his pocket and laid them on the desk in front of the headmaster . |
| 4 | Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk . |
| 5 | Ronni carried them indoors and laid them on the kitchen table , scarcely able to bear the mouth-watering aromas that were escaping from beneath the tin foil . |
| 6 | George Yaxlee took the contents of the back pocket and laid them on the mantelshelf . |
| 7 | Carter took out his packet of cigarettes and a box of matches and laid them on the locker . |
| 8 | She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass . |
| 9 | Carson appeared with the towels , a bath-sized and two hand-sized , and laid them on the duvet by her bag . |
| 10 | So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely . |
| 11 | Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave . |
| 12 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 13 | As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks . |
| 14 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 15 | He gestured towards the table with an amiable smile and led them to the gate . |
| 16 | The count simply abandoned the small , expensive aircraft and led them to the car . |
| 17 | They collected their horses from the stables and led them through the cold , bustling streets . |
| 18 | A pack leader saw the police in hot pursuit , called six Sturmabteilungen to him and led them into the stadium . |
| 19 | Lady Macleod received the travellers in ‘ a stately dining-room ’ , fed them and led them into the drawing-room for tea to meet the family . |
| 20 | He pulled a helpless face , took off his glasses , and wiped them on the tail of his shirt . |
| 21 | Whether this resulted in a concession is not clear , for the authorities appear to have hired and armed a body of men and posted them in the Exchange to arrest the strikers . |
| 22 | As a seduction suite it had its shortcomings , he reflected as he unzipped his jeans , stepped out of them , and slung them onto the sofa with the rest of the day 's rubbish . |
| 23 | The local officers , usually J.P.s , and known as undertakers , then bought goods at market prices and sold them to the household at royal prices . |
| 24 | Mr Osenat nevertheless put the paintings up for sale at their estimate , FFr2.5 million and sold them in the space of a few seconds to the town 's Mayor ( who is also , ironically , Chairman of the Board of the Hospital ) , who then donated them to the museum on behalf of the town . |
| 25 | In the first two weeks I sat down , worked out the six major things I needed to do and tabled them to the group executive within six weeks . |
| 26 | The barmaid drew off two measures and passed them across the counter . |
| 27 | The man peeled off two bank notes from the roll in his pocket and stuffed them into the conductor 's tunic pocket . |
| 28 | she 's walking the through it and stuffed them in the ground ! |
| 29 | She stripped the bed and put Ruth 's treasures , carefully wrapping the glass , her books and the bear into two cardboard boxes from the supermarket , and stowed them in the bottom of the wardrobe . |
| 30 | When the Philadelphia — now remember this name — when the Philadelphia put into Stornoway in Lewis , and gleaned young boys from the beach , and stowed them in the hold like trade-goods , what constable or what factor raised his arm or his stick to stop the slavers ? |