Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] them [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 2 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 3 | A car passed them on the single track road , heading north ; they stood aside to let it pass , waving at the single occupant when he waved at them . |
| 4 | The long black limousine drove them through the wintry city . |
| 5 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 6 | They found that he knew what he wanted ; that he was persuasive in trying to get it ; that what he wanted was good ; and they suddenly realized that this new young professor dragged them into the twentieth century . |
| 7 | After a dry tour , the brewery directed them to the local pub — which sells a RIVAL brew . |
| 8 | It was difficult to remember the route , but Lowell 's van in the bottom field signposted them in the right direction . |
| 9 | It must have taken a while from Taunton , Charles thought , as Frances drove them in the yellow Renault 5 along the route Lesley-Jane had described . |
| 10 | Grooms took their horses whilst a pompous steward of the Prince 's household led them up the main steps into the spacious hall . |
| 11 | I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris . |
| 12 | That is the same price Leeds council paid them in the mid 1980 's and about £2.5m less than the local authority are looking for now . |
| 13 | The main street of the village faced them on the other side of the Westport road . |
| 14 | ‘ At the Brisbane Hotel dinner , Jimmy Conn treated them to the full Address to the Haggis , splendidly translated by interpreter Pru Williams . ’ |
| 15 | Faced with narrow options , the Chancellor broadened them in the only way realistically open to him — chronologically . |
| 16 | As the shirt-sleeved waiter preceded them across the crowded room , Polly was startled when people began calling out to Nathan . |
| 17 | Stephen took them up the zig-zag track . |
| 18 | Stephen had them in the handsome , leather-bound edition of the International Collectors ' Library and also in the paperbacks that had come out to go with the television series . |
| 19 | Owen accompanied them to the front entrance himself . |
| 20 | A warm , salty breeze blew in from the Adriatic and sunlight sparkled on the water as their motor-boat taxi carried them towards the Grand Canal . |
| 21 | A sun umbrella sheltered them from the wan May sunshine . |
| 22 | Boni homines or échevins ousted them in the self-governing towns ; and slowly the day-to-day work of running courts in the non-franchised areas was taken over by knights or clerks with special knowledge of the law , leaving castellans to revert to their military role . |
| 23 | Yet if Mosley came to see Lloyd George as a fellow economic radical , objections to the management of Irish policy divided them in the early 1920s . |
| 24 | So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school , and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work . |
| 25 | Some of the men who took part in this , like Sir Walter Raleigh and his brother-in-law Sir Humphrey Gilbert , were also attracted by the idea of getting lands on the other side of the Atlantic , and the success of the Spaniards encouraged them in the widespread belief that an immense amount of gold and silver was waiting to be discovered all over the Americas . |
| 26 | Ideas flew from Lucy 's lips , Jay worked them into the right phrase , the right analogy . |
| 27 | ‘ Why do you think your father left them in the first place ? ’ |
| 28 | Without a word , the nun ushered them through the broad , thick oak door and into a tiled hall , there to be confronted by a statue of the Virgin Mary with the Child in her arms , and above her , on the wall , a large crucifix hanging at such an angle it appeared that Christ 's bent head was viewing Himself as a child in His mother 's arms . |
| 29 | The part of the Wallowa Valley desired by the Nez Perce in 1873 , and the completely contradictory area allocated them by the Indian Bureau . |
| 30 | The beadle led them through the gloomy rooms off the main hall where the Court of Common Pleas , Court of Chancery and Court of Requests sat , and down a warren of lime-washed corridors until he stopped in front of a door and rapped noisily with his wand . |