Example sentences of "he [verb] they [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He is carrying the map the class have made , which his " friend " has delivered ; he thanks them for the excellent job they have done . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ellwood and Luke were crouched over Piper as he told them about the slow , magical dance of the cosmos . |
| 7 | Removing a pair of surgical gloves , he dropped them inside the open bag he 'd perched on a chair , closed the bag . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Part of the time he sees them in the familiar way as creatures who lack rationality to at least some degree . |
| 10 | Sheepishly he collected them from the back door and they started out again . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | He crushed them on the open field of battle . |
| 13 | And after his successful return to management at Ipswich , he guided them into the Premier League before moving ‘ upstairs ’ at Portman Road this summer . |
| 14 | He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio . |
| 15 | Dazedly he saw them by the sagging chaise-longue . |
| 16 | He put them in the warm water . |
| 17 | This is what trousers he put them in the proper basket instead of leaving them there . |
| 18 | He describes two raids on Berlin at different stages of the conflict , but , more than that , he puts them into the general context of Bomber Command 's war over Germany . |
| 19 | He reminds them of the confidential nature of the case : nobody is to discuss it outside the room . |
| 20 | That wretched man steals anything that 's of good quality that he can get his hands on — not for himself since they 're usually things that do n't fit him — he sells them to the second-hand clothes stalls on San Lorenzo market . ’ |
| 21 | The moon and man stepped up to Le-eyo together , and the god became confused , saying ‘ Man , die and remain away ; moon , die and return ’ as he sprinkled them with the reversed charms . |
| 22 | He recognized them by the bright overalls they wore . |
| 23 | He leaves them in the open pasture says Jesus , he leaves them in the wilderness and goes after the one which is lost until he finds it . |