Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Tranmere have beaten them in the league this year . |
| 2 | Trading in these securities has been sparse since the crash in October 1987 , and the recent withdrawals of marketmakers such as Warburg Securities , UBS Phillips & Drew and County NatWest from dealing in the securities of many smaller companies has left them without the mandatory two marketmakers for inclusion in the SEAQ system of continuously updated two-way prices . |
| 3 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 4 | Mrs Fletcher had brought them round the previous night . |
| 5 | The teacher had helped them with the capital letter to begin the sentence and the full stop at the end . |
| 6 | Customs had waved them through the green section . |
| 7 | This is the second skirmish in a brief cross-border raid for Edinburgh 's Joyriders ( the previous evening had seen them on the charity gig trail with Mega City Four in Tufnell Park ) , out to bludgeon the capital 's callow youth into line with their handsomely appointed tuff-pop manifesto . |
| 8 | And Satan had led them to the attack . |
| 9 | We had a bachelor party on board , who were out for a little merrymaking : an island marriage ball had wooed them from the desk of the counting-house , and having had a taste of the free air of these parts , and being good fellows well met , a few more days of healthful roving have a gleeful appendix to the gaieties of the wedding . |
| 10 | By the time the taxi had delivered them to the restaurant Fabia was feeling on more of an even keel . |
| 11 | The first revolution had liberated them from the oppression of the Tsarist regime and reinforced their perennial dream of autonomy … |
| 12 | Others who were less impressed by what they knew about Law were surprised by what they discovered of his actual abilities , perhaps because his anonymity had prepared them for the worst . |
| 13 | In founding Lampsacus they killed off all the natives , but they did it in self-defence ; the daughter of the local king had warned them of the impending attack . |
| 14 | But by now the rising waters had isolated them on the islands of Borneo , Sumatra and Java . |
| 15 | The devil had booked them into the same room . |
| 16 | Nicola had taken them off the path and into a dense part of the wood . |
| 17 | The handsome young fisherman Pablo had joined them in the café , and now he said , ‘ Señorita , you are doing nothing today . |
| 18 | News had reached them of the happenings at the manor and they rightly assumed that with Tom in charge of the manor farm they were not likely to be evicted from their forest camp . |
| 19 | Several people had noticed them in the bar , but no one saw when they left . |
| 20 | Johnson was the shining star in an excellent Whitecaps side which included former English internationalists Alan Ball and Jon Sammels. his performances put an estimated 6,000 on the team 's home gate ; within a season Johnson had led them to the Soccer Bowl final against Tampa Bay Rowdies . |
| 21 | yeah people have seen them at the discos and , will do , and er even , even those that gives patterns or designs people are buying , have in the house now instead of watching television , sit and watch the pattern on the wall er , but erm |
| 22 | Their hazardous journey has taken them over the mountains between Metkovic in Croatia to Zenica in Bosnia . |
| 23 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 24 | Gamal and one or two of his friends had joined them in the box and Gamal was not entirely comfortable either , though for different reasons . |
| 25 | Worst of all , seamen rapidly came to the conclusion that the service and suffering to which the union had committed them in the name of Britain and the Empire did not extend to the shipowners , and especially not to those who were fortunate enough to escape requisitioning of their vessels by the government . |
| 26 | We wondered what stupid idiot had left them on the Tube . ’ |
| 27 | With automatic professionalism Folly had carried them into the bathroom and begun to hunt around for a suitable container before her mind turned back to the question of who could have sent them . |
| 28 | If they had given the matter any thought , however , and some incident had alerted them to the dangers of being too relaxed , there was no doubt they would have strained every muscle to elude the worst poverty . |
| 29 | Outgoing BAIE national chairman Phillipa Burrow , who appeared with her in the BBC studios at Pebble Mill in Birmingham , said the number of cot deaths had fallen by 60 per cent since Anne Diamond had brought them to the attention of the public and the Government . |
| 30 | They also knew that the arrested men were respectable and law-abiding and they were highly indignant when they heard that an official spokesman had smeared them with the suggestion of criminal activities . |