Example sentences of "he [verb] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 32 | ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | He helped them into the railway coach , stood the dark lantern on the floor , checked the blinds and curtains with the torch , slammed the carriage door and flooded the whole place with good old-fashioned electric light . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Well he , he , he given them a free cup of coffee it 'll be alright , but he did n't , he gave , the machine took ten P pieces so he provided them with the ten P pieces to put in and then when it was full up he 'd empty it out and give them all ten P pieces back |
| 37 | With a gesture he drew them to the side of the corridor . |
| 38 | Though my son , that 's my eldest , in the Royal Navy , wrote that he has them in the Pacific . ’ |
| 39 | He is carrying the map the class have made , which his " friend " has delivered ; he thanks them for the excellent job they have done . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | How does he recruit them to the cause of the critique of reference in language ? |
| 42 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 43 | Oh yes , but he wants them for the whole of the year you see , which is impossible . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | He told them of the product launches during the year , Cruzcampo 's success at the Expo event in Spain , and the development of the new staff restaurant to replace the old canteen . |
| 46 | He told them about the oranges and bananas that grow in Aula and the quantities of milk and curd , and then about the monkeys that hop around and eat the crops . |
| 47 | He told them about the journey down , the woman in black , the taxi-driver . |
| 48 | He told them about the Thing , and space , and the Ship in the sky . |
| 49 | Ellwood and Luke were crouched over Piper as he told them about the slow , magical dance of the cosmos . |
| 50 | Under interrogation he told them about the ball of wax and , when he finally shat it out , they cut it open and found a letter . |
| 51 | He told them about the bath in Swines ' building yard . |
| 52 | If they do so he grabs them by the neck and hauls them back to the fold . |
| 53 | Having done so , he committed them into the care of Him who cares for all the needy , and knelt to his prayers . |
| 54 | When they stood upon their privilege as peers and refused to do so , he committed them to the Tower of London . |
| 55 | Removing a pair of surgical gloves , he dropped them inside the open bag he 'd perched on a chair , closed the bag . |
| 56 | Although it meant a detour he drove them through the Bois du Boulogne . |
| 57 | He drove them to the station and they returned , sad for their sister and still not convinced that it was better for her not to come home . |
| 58 | He directed them to the Fish , took over the chaise from them before they entered the village , drove it across the meadow to the edge of Burtness Wood , calling , on his way , to the potboy to bring some oats . |
| 59 | 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 ) . |
| 60 | He showed them into the lift , shaking hands with them both , and as Catherine turned away from him to press the lift button , he suddenly raised his eyebrows at McLeish in amusement at his own response to her . |