Example sentences of "he [vb past] them [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit . |
| 2 | And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He led them to a dugout canoe half a mile downstream , and they poled slowly across to the other bank . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He led them into a room overlooking an attractive courtyard , with a paved area surrounded by shrubs . |
| 10 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |
| 13 | Thus , it can be argued that the impact of the young Elvis Presley was due to the way in which , taking a range of pre-existing musical , lyric and performance elements , he rearticulated them into a new pattern set by the intersection and intermediation of certain images of class ( proletarian ) , ethnicity ( black/poor white ) , age ( ‘ youth ’ ) , gender ( male ) and nationality ( American South ) . |
| 14 | He found them in a mess of vomit . |
| 15 | He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 16 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 17 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 18 | He helped them to a waiting car and drove to nearby St Thomas 's Hospital . |
| 19 | He approached them with an offer to train them . |
| 20 | He described them as a rope of sand that is washed away with every tide " . |
| 21 | He must have felt it and he must have suffered afterwards from it I would imagine , but he had , he had those qualifications , he had those abilities and he used them for a . |
| 22 | If they did n't bring back the amount of money he 'd told them to , he beat them with a baseball bat . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Hearing on the grapevine that Island Records ' in-house Fallout Shelter studios were in need of a trainee engineer , he pestered them for an interview that afternoon and began work the next day . |
| 25 | ‘ I figured you 'd want to get out of those city clothes straight away , ’ he told them with a grin . |
| 26 | But he told them in a straightforward way . |
| 27 | Then he bundled them into a stolen car in their nightclothes . |
| 28 | He blasted them with a powerful assault rifle after knocking back eight pints and storming his girlfriend 's flat , it was alleged . |
| 29 | He joined them on a non-contract basis . |
| 30 | 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 . |