Example sentences of "them [verb] him [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 2 | He watched the engineer go , and then turned and let them take him up to the wall-walk , and down into the beleaguered city where , once , the Genoese had planned to keep him hostage while his company fought for Carlotta . |
| 3 | It took all three of them to lift him out of the reeking waterlogged shelter through an opening just big enough for one of them at a time . |
| 4 | The feel of them brought him back into the attic room , to the confusion that made a few words on a piece of paper into a lifeline . |
| 5 | Never a glimpse of him since that good little lass saw them dragging him back into the wards . |
| 6 | It cost the poor milkman a fortune to get them to pay him up for the milk people said they did n't get , you know ! |
| 7 | He rose to his feet , wiped his hands on his jeans , then beckoned them to follow him up to the house . |