Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jimmy Richards , 31 , suffocated after the weights landed on his face and neck when he tried to lift them at a Bradford health club . |
| 2 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
| 3 | So he tried to show them on the piano . |
| 4 | ANDY SINTON last night revealed he plans to quit QPR — just days after he helped steer them to the top of the Premier League . |
| 5 | He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired . |
| 6 | They were some of the best he 'd ever taken , he said , but it was difficult to tell since he 'd dropped them in the water when he was changing film . |
| 7 | So somebody had to tell him he 'd left them at the |
| 8 | He 'd left them in the refrigerator factory … ? |
| 9 | He 'd left them in the Courtesy Cleaners : they 'd be ready in time for Easter Saturday . |
| 10 | He 'd found them through an ad in Private Eye , and they always welcomed his business — but then , the tottering co-operative would welcome anybody 's business . |
| 11 | Joe said he 'd got them from the pawnshop . |
| 12 | As the women talked and asked stupid questions about his novels he imagined putting them in the next one . |
| 13 | In his characteristic phrase , " I am their leader , I must follow them " — but he determined to follow them from the front . |
| 14 | Dismissing all but a single guard who was burdened with a lantern on a pole , he began to lead them by the bridges and passageways which cut across the streets in a way which was arguably more direct and certainly less likely to be barred by persistent celebrants . |
| 15 | He began doing them in the earliest days of his career down on Coenties Slip in the late Fifties ( where the drawing classes held in Fred Mitchell 's loft became legendary ) and has kept steadily at them ever since . |
| 16 | Still flexing his fingers , he started to dig them into the base of her neck , or rather , in the area where her neck might be assumed to begin . |
| 17 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 18 | He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before . |
| 19 | Perhaps if he had met them after the confidence gained by a successful tour of India in 1976–7 , when his captaincy was much praised , the story might have been different . |
| 20 | A school had only to ask and he would talk to the boys and girls , and dozens of boys came to King 's because he had met them in a train or at school . |
| 21 | He had seen them through the gates . |
| 22 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
| 23 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 24 | Leslie was aware that most people " can not Read at all " , but said he had seen them in the streets " Gather together about one that can Read " and listen to a newspaper being read aloud . |
| 25 | The man standing by my side said that he had seen them behind the terminal . |
| 26 | It was as though he had joined them at the table , and it was n't doing D'Arcy 's appetite any good at all . |
| 27 | Ever since he had known her parents , he had had them in the palms of both his hands . |
| 28 | But they told their grand father that they had seen the god , and that he had taken them to the mountain-top . |
| 29 | Resignation threats had long been a weapon in de Gaulle 's armoury , but in the past he had used them from a position of strength . |
| 30 | In the mid-1950s he had introduced them to the Naval College in Rhode Island . |