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Example sentences of "he [verb] they [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Counting out seven pound notes , he laid them carefully on the table .
2	He laid them out on the desk , got a plastic bag out of the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet and swept all the bits and pieces into it .
3	And then he led them out of the small room .
4	Father Peter asked as he led them out of the church .
5	They were ready now , and he led them back to the Saloon .
6	Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again .
7	The throng in front of Owen melted away , leaving his men exposed , so he drew them back into the shadows .
8	But he tricked them out of the deeds , then conned them out of £85,000 to buy a Bentley .
9	Shortly afterwards , he drove them back to the house , a half a mile away .
10	His successor , Majorian , is unlikely to have gained the support of the Burgundians in 458 , when he drove them out of the lands which they had received with the approval of the Gallo-Roman senators .
11	In silence , he drove them out of the hollow and back on to the track .
12	As they mature he leads them out of the harem to an independent existence .
13	To cut a long story short , he threw them out of the house .
14	When he handed them over to the Syrians , the major received a special word of thanks from representatives of the country which would , ten years later , help the Americans to bomb Libya .
15	He was nicknamed ‘ The Resurrection Man ’ because he would row up and down the river by night , fishing up floating bodies — and picking their pockets before he handed them over to the police and claimed his reward .
16	He shook them firmly by the hand — a comforting , hearty grasp that cheered Dexter , who had a pet dislike of cold hands proffered nervously like fragile porcelain .
17	He followed them sadly to the door .
18	The grand old Duke of York , he had ten thousand men , he walked them up to the top of the hill and back again .
19	He raised them now at the two shaken women who sat facing him in the interview-room at Stowbridge police station .
20	He arranged them neatly in the executive case open by his side , then concealed the banknotes with several layers of insurance magazines and four paperbacks .
21	They were like little nets : they were exactly the shape of a horse 's ears : he pulled them down over the ears , and they each had a red or blue tassel hanging on them .
22	He placed them firmly on the man 's chest and pressed the buttons .
23	He placed them carefully on the table in the centre of the room .
24	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 .
25	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 .
26	He took them down to the station and sent them off to London by passenger train .
27	By imparting his enthusiasm to his pupils , impressing them most earnestly with the importance of their calling , he sent them out into the world with a store of self-respect which greatly contributed to uphold their position , and gave them an impetus to endeavour to raise its standard , which was often crowned with the most happy success ’ .
28	He sent them all over the Islamic world to kill his enemies . ’
29	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 .
30	The centre forward , whom they nicknamed Ossie , wore his sideburns long and his shorts even longer — but at least he kept them on for the duration .