Example sentences of "[verb] them [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assembled friends were told by Brendan Bracken in tones of wonderment that Churchill — that great Francophile — had rung to bellow that he would watch them die without a qualm if they ‘ ratted on Poland as they had ratted on Czechoslovakia , ’ while Bob Boothby told them repeatedly how he had exhorted Winston to ‘ break Chamberlain and take his place ’ . |
| 2 | I step on a few and watch them crack in the middle like a sheet of glass . |
| 3 | In our mind we watch them happen in the future . |
| 4 | ( Hence when the evangelist has the women discover the empty tomb , he does not have them witness to the resurrection but rather go and tell the men . ) |
| 5 | When I left them behind in Cambridge , I got my wife to send them express to the Turtle Bay Hilton . |
| 6 | They watched them turn towards the house . |
| 7 | He watched them walk towards the car . |
| 8 | We watched them disappear into the dusk as we anchored at the little island of Likangloe , where we had witnessed our first python hunt . |
| 9 | As she watched them disappear into the distance she shivered with the chill of her own isolation . |
| 10 | An impressive feature of the early post-war Palace sides was the triumvirate of Alderson in goal , Little and Ernie Rhodes at full-back , and those who watched them play for the Palace will tell you of an understanding between them that bordered on the uncanny . |
| 11 | They would never stay in my bedroom very long , but you can imagine my excitement each lunchtime as I watched them arrive in the garden , enter the house and quack their way up to me , as regular as clockwork . |
| 12 | Examination had also revealed several hooded eyes in the head , torso and arms ; all connected by a massive circuitry of unexplainable nerves and sinew which , although with no brain to relay messages still saw them , still swivelled and watched them move about the room as they examined it . |
| 13 | I knew that from when I 'd gone to watch them play in the past , but I 'd been cured of insomnia for some time now . |
| 14 | Two boys who were rescued from the fighting in Lebanon are back tonight at the hospital that rebuilt their bodies and gave them hope for the future . |
| 15 | A few of them can afford to rely upon a single organization to offer them work throughout the year . |
| 16 | And there — how clearly he remembered it suddenly — there , watching them climb into the dark , was the boy , smiling beatifically , his big , dark eyes filled with wonder . |
| 17 | If you intend to insert subtitles at a later editing stage ( rather than superimposing them live at the time of shooting ) , you will need to reserve space for these on the tape by shooting overlength material which can subsequently be erased and over-recorded by the insert . |
| 18 | But if that 's the case , he 's obviously so accurate that maybe he should try hitting them close for a change ! |
| 19 | Curriculum changes and the planning necessary to achieve them originate at a number of points : in the cabinet , in the ministry of education , in the curriculum project or in the school ; yet in every instance six similar processes are involved : |
| 20 | These form the start of a speech by the prophets and patriarchs in Hell , who appeal for an Ambassador — this is before Christ 's Advent — to bring them rescue from the deorc déabes sceadu , the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ . |