Example sentences of "[verb] them [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect that the people who made them were influenced by the Labour party 's ’ Standard No. 17 ’ , which was circulated among people in the area . |
| 2 | The sick who had no one to tend them were spread through the inner , inhabited core of the city , in the monasteries , in the hospice of the Knights of St John with their double chapels . |
| 3 | On the island of Rhum for example , there was talk of introducing a pack of timber wolves when sufficient tree cover to support them was achieved at the end of an extensive planting programme by the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the models of chemistry remained rather imperfect , and substantial advances in understanding them were made in the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Brent 's success in informing and advising the immigrant community about changing legislation that directly affects them was repeated around the country , and is reflected in the immigration enquiry statistics which rose by 180 per cent in 1987/8 compared with the previous year . |
| 6 | A traffic warden who tried to stop them was knocked to the ground . |