Example sentences of "he [vb past] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made them by scattering his droppings over the sky and this is why the grass and the trees grow so thick on the world . |
| 2 | When he entertained them to dinner , they travelled to his apartment at Buckingham Palace , not the other way around . |
| 3 | He depicted them with their mothers or alone , being held or rocked , or lying in cradles . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Taking out a sheaf of documents , he laid them on the desk top . |
| 6 | Anthony even claimed to have discovered ‘ maps of Ireland ’ on the sheets when he stuffed them into the machine in the local Launderette . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He passed them to Maddox . |
| 9 | Florence of Worcester [ q.v. ] says Canute sent Edward and his brother Edmund to the Swedish king to be killed , but that he passed them to Hungary , where Edmund died and Edward married Agatha , daughter of the brother of an Emperor Henry . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
| 12 | Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit . |
| 13 | So he sold them for four X. |
| 14 | Tickets were printed and he sold them to friends for 1&shilling. each … |
| 15 | He sold them to B who did not take delivery . |
| 16 | And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third . |
| 17 | When he sold them around the pubs and to neighbours that evening , the money would subsidise his meagre pension . |
| 18 | He scanned them with his cyclops eye . |
| 19 | He scanned them in silence . |
| 20 | He met them at the gate and was smiling . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He also advocated the appointment of prison inspectors and made it clear that he expected them to be as thorough as he himself had been , probing every corner and speaking with every prisoner . |
| 26 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 27 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 28 | He asked them into Sainsbury 's , borrowed a pencil from the sausage assistant , and wrote his name on the paper bag . |
| 29 | ‘ What are they looking for ? ’ he asked them without any preliminary greeting . |
| 30 | But he asked them to ‘ see it from a different viewpoint . |