Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] them [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs .
2 Surely this love-struck lothario was not The Doc that bullied them to a successful FA Cup Final .
3 But his drawings were remarkable for their acuteness of observation and their complete lack of sentimentality , qualities that placed them in a different league .
4 Horrible as was the deed that bound them in a fascinated confederacy of blood they were , for the first time , having a conversation .
5 The girl swung round as a silent invitation to follow , and led them past a tangled bunch of bicycles and a wall of political posters to hopeless causes .
6 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 .
7 The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief .
8 Where they could have taken genes from an old disease-resistant variety and inserted them into a disease-vulnerable , high-yielding new variety , the old genes can no longer be found .
9 The figure turned stiffly and fixed them in a sightless gaze .
10 I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state .
11 Mandy spotted them and waved that they were all right , and Matthew turned and headed them into a safe cove , too .
12 Having chosen your leather corals carefully , and provided them with a good aquarium environment , they should grow steadily and live for a long time ( ten years has been reported ) , and possibly even reproduce .
13 Indirect Rule , then , with its implicit exaltation of the man-on-the-spot over the man in the central office , set the seal of legitimacy on the centrifugal tendencies long at work in the British Colonial Service , and provided them with a rational institutional expression independent of the existence of a frontier .
14 I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire .
15 Wilson et al took samples of diseased intestine and subjected them to a non-specific PCR amplifying the DNA of any bacteria present .
16 And then he 'd maybe see two small boys holding hands , and the Holy Spirit would be forgotten while he hauled the bewildered pair out in front of the rest of the class and subjected them to a blistering rain of sarcasm .
17 She lifted the clothes out of the pot on the end of the pole and transferred them to a fresh-water butt to rinse .
18 Miller quoted Mark Catesby , who always packed dry seeds in paper and sealed them in a dry gourd shell .
19 Here Ashley designed her tiles , painted and fired them in a small kiln .
20 He had taken a group of talented individuals and moulded them into a superb team , ridding them of their old factions and weaknesses , and showing the disbelievers that black men were every bit as good as white .
21 She picked up her discarded clothes and threw them into a small bureau , scratched and marked by years of neglect .
22 Men and women carried their own children on their shoulders to the church and threw them into a common pit .
23 He seemed bereft of sense as he pulled ribboned holly sprays from the walls and fed them to a sulky fire , cheering as they crackled and spurted heatless flame up the chimney .
24 Apparently , they consider that their responsibilities end when they have unpacked their baggage of trophies from the record offices and arranged them in a convincing pattern .
25 Alyssia blew some of the flyaway blonde strands away from her face and followed them to a small table at the back of the café , hoping that she would not have to endure half an hour of French conversation while she sat on the sidelines , wondering whether what they were discussing was really as animated and interesting as it appeared .
26 During the post-war period Hayek has drawn out some of the assumptions underpinning his economic theorizing and developed them into a general theory of society .
27 She wrapped them in a piece of pale yellow silk which she tied up with a purple ribbon , and enclosed them in a square biscuit tin which she pushed to the very back of the buffet , behind the piles of tablecloths and napkins .
28 Their campaigns for legal enforcement were backed by a powerful language which identified whole new technologies of sex and forged them into a popular crusade for reform .
29 If you do n't have a male flower with pollen dropping , take the most developed flower , open it carefully to expose the anthers , use tweezers carefully to take out some filaments and lay them on a clean dry plate or saucer .
30 Between 1840 and 1880 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels criticized and restructured the ideas they gleaned from all three sources , and combined them into a potent synthesis which they acclaimed as the first ‘ scientific socialism , .
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