Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [was/were] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way of showing them respect was to enclose them in reliquaries and enrich these with precious substances . |
| 2 | He knew well enough that convincing politicians was a tough job , so his plan was to present them with an informed and insistent electorate of the future . |
| 3 | His job was to talk them through any roadblocks . |
| 4 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
| 5 | ‘ Our trick was to put them in different situations . |
| 6 | Old Ladjang remonstrated with him quietly , but the others were silent , and we realized that our captain was infecting them with a subtle but poisonous hostility towards us . |