Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 2 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 3 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 4 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 5 | I had taken them to the meeting . |
| 6 | And seeing that someone had joined them in the chapel , he pinched Caterina 's cheek , and lightly slapping her shoulder , said aloud , ‘ Away with you , find someone else to pester . ’ |
| 7 | Their entry into the Town Boys appeared to rest not only on the fact that they had gained reputations but also on their ability to maintain such reputations in the absence of the symbolic dress and tokens of status which had assisted them in the past . |
| 8 | They would appear from time to time and taunt the old couple , reminding them of their past lives and the failures or mistakes which had brought them to the castle ( though never detailing them — neither Quiss nor Ajayi knew what the other had done to justify sending them here . |
| 9 | In places vehicles which had preceded them along the track had exposed the sterile moss . |
| 10 | She 'd left them in the caravan , and he just see the keys |
| 11 | It was their way of saying thank you to the locals who 'd helped them on the road to stardom . |
| 12 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 13 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 14 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 15 | She had seen them around the hotel for the last five days . |
| 16 | By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly . |
| 17 | She hardly dared to draw the curtains to show herself to the other girls , though she had warned them of the horrid sight in store for them . |
| 18 | So she had placed them on the mantel with the vase and the dragon plates , and Gerry had promised her two more , next time he docked in Cape Town . |
| 19 | Rose , with the same tact as she had brought them to the house , was careful to absent herself from these occasions as much as possible . |
| 20 | She was quite sure she had surprised them in the act of carrying out the next stage of the deception concerning the Jourdain-Durance paintings . |
| 21 | He was watching Charles closely , as if afraid that he would not be believed , when he came to describe the meeting with Maureen O'Duffy and what she had told them during the drive down the mountain . |
| 22 | Once she had taken them to the cinema and Oliver had been sick with excitement and ice-cream . |
| 23 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 24 | The servant , who had followed them into the room , put her arms round her and comforted her . |
| 25 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 26 | They ate in silence , Corbett conscious of the old man staring at them now joined by the leader who had met them in the forest . |
| 27 | ‘ Indeed you would n't find better anywhere , ’ said Mrs Bennet who had joined them in the cellar with her daughter . |
| 28 | Speaking after the presentation , Mr Ashwell said the Wedgwood Fine Dining Awards were coveted by restaurants around the world and appreciated by those who had received them over the years . |
| 29 | A line of the malabars , named after the Indian immigrants who had brought them to the colony , had been drawn up under the trees in the square outside the Continental Palace Hotel when they emerged to go to Cholon with Jacques and Paul Devraux to buy the last of their hunting supplies . |
| 30 | The transport arranged was the same taxi-driver who had brought them from the airport . |