Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] them [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they have gone through an experience of doubt which has purged them forever of the desire to doubt without finding an answer . |
| 2 | History has brought them together as a phenomenon without compare , and it is Pakistan 's good fortune that they are surviving fitness scares long enough to bring many honours to their country . |
| 3 | ‘ The guide , who has driven them there in a minibus , naturally counts heads before he starts on the return journey . |
| 4 | Money has driven them deeper into the planet , money has brought them down in the world … |
| 5 | Until recently they were thought to be primitive primates but now science has put them firmly among the insectivores . |
| 6 | For example , monies could be restricted because the governing body has put them aside for a specific purpose , such as for renewal of a fleet of cars . |
| 7 | The copycat kings of the world will apply the formula which has benefitted them immensely in the everyday world of trade and commerce to rugby . |
| 8 | ‘ Fate has thrown them together in a way which could have led to conflict , resentment and bitterness . |
| 9 | You must have disturbed them right in the act . " |
| 10 | We stared in stunned shock , realising that the pilot must have made one last superhuman effort not to come down right on our heads , but then just could n't manage those last few yards which would have brought them safely onto the runway . |
| 11 | You may think they were tainted , but we know they were tested at the priory and I doubt the Lady Eleanor would have taken them solely on the Prince 's word . ’ |
| 12 | By the time the tins had fallen that far , the wind and slipstream would have blown them all over the sky . |
| 13 | I 've gathered them slowly over the years , because they 're cruelly expensive . |
| 14 | Previously they had lacked an identity , but the training period had welded them together into a cohesive fighting force with an intense pride in themselves and their unit . |
| 15 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 16 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 17 | no here they are , I know I 've seen them somewhere on the window sill |
| 18 | However , the evidence of the fireman who was on the footplate of the engine that was hauling the express disproved the allegations of the railway company , for he had seen them together on the train after it had arrived at Birmingham New Street Station around 2.30 when the children had waved at him . |
| 19 | Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun . |
| 20 | Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave . |
| 21 | When you 've got them away from the mains , what d' ya do with them ? |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got them halfway down the corridor , and the door opens behind us . |
| 23 | Esther hinted that it was the grim circumstances of their childhood that had drawn them together with a love that dared not speak its name . |
| 24 | ‘ What a disgusting thing to do , ’ she said aloud , as she walked through the silent house , picking up two items of Nick 's clothing from where he had flung them almost into the utility room . |
| 25 | Could you still touch them if you 've pulled them away from the mains and everything ? |
| 26 | What had happened was that , having marched in straight lines over open flat ground for a while , their paths had taken them close to a pebble . |
| 27 | He and his colleagues were well aware of the more rapid progress in America , and there were regular transatlantic visits by headquarters engineers , but only when they were quite sure of new techniques and had discussed them thoroughly with the British manufacturers were they prepared to make a move . |
| 28 | That 's the top part the bottom part is open to negotiation and that 's why I 've put them altogether at the bottom . |
| 29 | He 's painted them continually for the last 6 years . |
| 30 | I dare say that you too , Mr. Speaker , were inspired by all you saw , and of course you have visited them all over the years and have great experience of this subject . |