Example sentences of "[vb past] them [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next he led the spinnaker sheets aft to the cockpit and made them fast to the stern cleats with plenty of slack . |
| 2 | I met them leeward of the middle vehicle , where they lent a hand to tip the wheelbarrow into a stable position . |
| 3 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
| 4 | At last Cranston finished his further refreshment and , with Benedicta so close beside him his heart kept skipping for joy , Athelstan led them out into the great cleared area of Smithfield . |
| 5 | And then he led them out of the small room . |
| 6 | Snorting at the friar 's apparent stupidity , Cranston turned his horse and led them out of the main alleyways of Southwark . |
| 7 | The hotel staff felt sorry for the Garda and asked them round to the back door , where they handed out tots of whiskey . |
| 8 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 9 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 10 | The end of the wars drove them back to the British Isles , and some of them turned to fight for land in Ireland . |
| 11 | But as she washed her breakfast cup and saucer and rinsed them meticulously under the cold tap , she was anxious . |
| 12 | He then slowly pulled out some bank notes and furtively handed them over to the large man , who patted him on the back and quickly got off at the next station . |
| 13 | Jenkins picked up another four and handed them out to the other customers sitting at the counter . |
| 14 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
| 15 | The whole household walked them out to the big Ford at the end of the lane . |
| 16 | He reached towards her with his strong hands and pressed them down on the fine-boned structure of her shoulders , massaging with rhythmic , kneading movements . |
| 17 | He took the tins of food through to the lean-to and piled them up on the draining board . |
| 18 | They were kicked senseless and then handed over to the Military Police who locked them up in the roofless regimental prison before they were handed over to the Colonel of the Regiment for interrogation and questioning . |
| 19 | Angry at his ineffectiveness and at the way Rohmer had made him a bystander in this nightmare , Cardiff followed them back through the savage whirlwinds towards the office block . |
| 20 | John took the empty cups down below and placed them quietly in the small sink . |
| 21 | The cultural value of all these activities was thought to be negligible but at least some useful qualities were being inculcated and above all their commercial basis bound them in to the mainstream organization and values of middle-class society . |
| 22 | They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But now the Magpies are on the march again , nine years after Keegan guided them back into the top flight before sensationally swapping fog on the Tyne for the sunshine of Spain . |
| 25 | The AIB investigators were somewhat baffled as to the cause of the accident until the RAF pathologist rang them up from the local mortuary . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
| 28 | In his mind 's eye he saw them together in the brass-ended bed , his lovely Sweetheart with her silky hair and creamy-white skin , and beside her the grinning Tom Fish with one more cruel weapon to use against a little boy . |
| 29 | She got the doctor and his wife into their coats and saw them out of the front door . |
| 30 | For a while he had stood there at his side studying how he worked , how he soaked the garments and slapped them rhythmically against the smooth stone slabs . |