Example sentences of "he [vb past] they [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest clambered into their saddles , and followed him unquestioningly as he led them at a canter downslope to where the hills opened out and patches of ground could be seen where the snow was melting . |
| 2 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
| 3 | He led them down a small corridor , paused by a door , took out a huge bunch of keys , slowly , and deliberately , unlocked the door , and then , with a dramatic , indeed melodramatic , flourish , flung it open . |
| 4 | He led them into a small , more comfortable room behind the great hall where a fire burnt in the canopied hearth ; it was cosier and not so forbidding , with its wood-panelled walls and high-backed chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the hearth . |
| 5 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
| 6 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |
| 7 | Thus , it can be argued that the impact of the young Elvis Presley was due to the way in which , taking a range of pre-existing musical , lyric and performance elements , he rearticulated them into a new pattern set by the intersection and intermediation of certain images of class ( proletarian ) , ethnicity ( black/poor white ) , age ( ‘ youth ’ ) , gender ( male ) and nationality ( American South ) . |
| 8 | He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 9 | My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj . |
| 10 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 11 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 12 | He helped them to a waiting car and drove to nearby St Thomas 's Hospital . |
| 13 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 14 | Well he , he , he given them a free cup of coffee it 'll be alright , but he did n't , he gave , the machine took ten P pieces so he provided them with the ten P pieces to put in and then when it was full up he 'd empty it out and give them all ten P pieces back |
| 15 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
| 16 | I was the new boy at the office , he the old hand wondering what to make of me ; but if he was having second thoughts he dismissed them in a sudden grin . |
| 17 | Naturally Terry had hard-line views on all this , and as we changed for the show on that charged night he proclaimed them to the entire cast , as if he were addressing a meeting . |
| 18 | Ellwood and Luke were crouched over Piper as he told them about the slow , magical dance of the cosmos . |
| 19 | But he told them in a straightforward way . |
| 20 | Then he bundled them into a stolen car in their nightclothes . |
| 21 | He blasted them with a powerful assault rifle after knocking back eight pints and storming his girlfriend 's flat , it was alleged . |
| 22 | Removing a pair of surgical gloves , he dropped them inside the open bag he 'd perched on a chair , closed the bag . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 24 | He joined them on a non-contract basis . |
| 25 | Silently he handed them to the two sisters . |
| 26 | Having counted them ( there were 95 ) and gone back to Washington , he handed them in a rolled-up newspaper to Secord in the lobby of the Sheraton Carlton hotel . |
| 27 | Sheepishly he collected them from the back door and they started out again . |
| 28 | After about five minutes he saw a strange sight of what he took to be three men approaching ; he challenged them in the usual way and shouted , ‘ Halt or I fire . ’ |
| 29 | He crushed them on the open field of battle . |
| 30 | The increasingly objectivity and precision of O'Keeffe 's imagery also made a strong impression on critic henry McBride , though he interpreted them in a surprising way . |