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Example sentences of "he [verb] them [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He hated them before the war and he hates them now with a depth you gentlemen here would find hard to understand . ’
2	Counting out seven pound notes , he laid them carefully on the table .
3	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 .
4	And then he led them out of the small room .
5	Father Peter asked as he led them out of the church .
6	They were ready now , and he led them back to the Saloon .
7	Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again .
8	The throng in front of Owen melted away , leaving his men exposed , so he drew them back into the shadows .
9	But he tricked them out of the deeds , then conned them out of £85,000 to buy a Bentley .
10	Shortly afterwards , he drove them back to the house , a half a mile away .
11	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 .
12	In silence , he drove them out of the hollow and back on to the track .
13	‘ A person who receives goods on sale or return and at once passes them on to someone else under a like contract is entitled to demand them from that third person just as soon as the original owner of the goods has the right to demand them from him , but I am clear that , if he allows a period to elapse before he hands them on to a third person on sale or return , he has done an act which limits and impedes his power of returning the goods .
14	As they mature he leads them out of the harem to an independent existence .
15	To cut a long story short , he threw them out of the house .
16	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 .
17	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 .
18	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 .
19	He followed them sadly to the door .
20	The grand old Duke of York , he had ten thousand men , he walked them up to the top of the hill and back again .
21	He raised them now at the two shaken women who sat facing him in the interview-room at Stowbridge police station .
22	The little girls squealed with delight as he swung them round in a circle , before setting them back gently on to the sand .
23	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 .
24	Then he packed them off on a plane to Islamabad to meet the president .
25	He padded them out with a torn sheet from sick bay to stop them making any noise .
26	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 .
27	He placed them firmly on the man 's chest and pressed the buttons .
28	He placed them carefully on the table in the centre of the room .
29	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 .
30	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 .