Example sentences of "he [vb past] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted . |
| 2 | Taking out a sheaf of documents , he laid them on the desk top . |
| 3 | Anthony even claimed to have discovered ‘ maps of Ireland ’ on the sheets when he stuffed them into the machine in the local Launderette . |
| 4 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 5 | Boldly coloured ties draped Levinsky 's neck ( he sold them on the street ) , his synapses now like two eggs over light , in permanent sizzle , as he tried to move into stride with a young Cassius Clay . |
| 6 | Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit . |
| 7 | And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third . |
| 8 | When he sold them around the pubs and to neighbours that evening , the money would subsidise his meagre pension . |
| 9 | He met them at the gate and was smiling . |
| 10 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 11 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 12 | He met them with a drawn sword , but it was Gwion and Colban and a score of others armed with staves , kitchen knives and clubs . |
| 13 | He thought of startling Fred and Daisy with a flood of Italian when he met them off the boat train at Victoria Station , but at the sight of them his plans fled for excitement . |
| 14 | Jim Lancaster 's lips twitched into a smile of relief and he led them towards the hall . |
| 15 | He led them to a dugout canoe half a mile downstream , and they poled slowly across to the other bank . |
| 16 | Quickly he led them to a table , produced menus and wine , but deep in her despairing heart Alex was convinced that it was the surprise of someone seeing a customer who had already been in once that evening . |
| 17 | One of the crooks was picked up half-a-mile away and he led them to the tot who was sitting unhurt on a pedestrian walkway . |
| 18 | He led them to the er , first British title for a European trophy , and erm , eventually er , he also was a member of the Northern Ireland team that actually reached the quarter-finals in the nineteen fifty eight World Cup . |
| 19 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
| 20 | The rest clambered into their saddles , and followed him unquestioningly as he led them at a canter downslope to where the hills opened out and patches of ground could be seen where the snow was melting . |
| 21 | He led them down a small corridor , paused by a door , took out a huge bunch of keys , slowly , and deliberately , unlocked the door , and then , with a dramatic , indeed melodramatic , flourish , flung it open . |
| 22 | He led them into a room overlooking an attractive courtyard , with a paved area surrounded by shrubs . |
| 23 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
| 24 | He led them into a small , more comfortable room behind the great hall where a fire burnt in the canopied hearth ; it was cosier and not so forbidding , with its wood-panelled walls and high-backed chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the hearth . |
| 25 | He led them into the mortuary , and pulled the sheet back from the body of the girl . |
| 26 | He led them into the kitchen , chatting to Blanche and Dexter as if they were house guests rather than police officers who had come to interview him about a murder . |
| 27 | He led them across the hall and through the dining-room , down a corridor and into what he explained was a private dining-room where members could entertain groups of friends or associates . |
| 28 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |
| 29 | Instead , because his followers were anxious for a fight , he led them against the Auvergne , where there had recently been a conspiracy against him , which he wished to punish . |
| 30 | He led them round the range of the Ochils and swept through the strath down which the river Allan poured on its way to the Forth far behind him . |