Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] them [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of the walking species had the widely-splayed legs that gave them a slow and lumbering gait , but , in the absence of more streamlined animals , they prospered . |
| 2 | In one act at the exhibition hangar gave NAM ‘ back ’ its workshop , enabling the restoration of Anson C.19 VL348 to come on apace ; it allowed several of their exhibits the luxury of a controlled environment ; gave the Museum an ‘ all weather ’ visitor capability and made them a suitable location for the RAF Museum to loan them their Airspeed Oxford and North American Harvard — see the August issue . |
| 3 | THE AUSTRALIANS have decided to concentrate on sevens with the same single-mindedness that won them the 15-a-side title last year . |
| 4 | It was the young Scots ' first win in four outings and gave them an outside chance of qualifying for the latter stages of the championship . |
| 5 | What is interesting about them is that while the development corporations acquired powers that gave them a great deal of autonomy within their own territories , there is today a variety of questions to be raised about the extent to which their ‘ success ’ was secured at the expense of other policies to which they ‘ ought ’ to have related . |
| 6 | Capitalist economic relations were established in the countryside through the ‘ enclosures ’ , where land became the private property of landowners and the rural work-force was stripped of the land-use rights that gave them an independent source of subsistence . |
| 7 | The French struggled for nearly sixty minutes against a generous but raw Romania , ran riot against a Fijian side well below par and short of the menacing inspiration that made them a fearsome proposal in 1987 , while the game against Canada exposed the shortcomings that England later exploited with relish . |
| 8 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 9 | The waiter brought two tall glasses and filled them a good way up with Courvoisier . |
| 10 | Philpott lowered the newspaper and gave them a wry smile . |
| 11 | He sat on it with the two little girls and gave them a big smile . |
| 12 | The police at Castlereagh allocated a cell to each man and gave them a good meal . |
| 13 | As they approached , they could hear that he was whistling merrily as he walked and , upon seeing them , he raised a hand and gave them a frank open smile . |
| 14 | DAVID PLATT celebrated his Italian league debut for Juventus yesterday with the goal that earned them a 2-2 draw at Genoa . |
| 15 | French aplomb was to the fore as Auguste handed the crab to them along with the hook , raised his new Panama hat and bade them a courteous farewell . |
| 16 | He took of his glasses , put them on the table and flipped them a short distance . |