Example sentences of "he [verb] they in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |
| 2 | He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But he told them in a straightforward way . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He placed them in a neat pile , patting them into position with his large hands , frowning slightly . |
| 8 | The packet of Durex , bought in a chemist 's at Ipswich to meet an eventuality that Rosie had never allowed to materialize , lived permanently in his wallet ; he put them in a brown envelope in case a chance sighting made his intentions too crudely obvious . |
| 9 | He left them in a panelled solar beyond the hall , and went to inform his master that he had unexpected guests ; and no more than five minutes later the door of the room opened upon the lord of half Leicestershire , a good slice of Warwickshire and Northampton , and a large honour in Normandy brought to him by his marriage with the heiress of Breteuil . |