Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] them [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depending on how influential people were , Mickey either nodded at them or gave them a hearty greeting . |
| 2 | The French struggled for nearly sixty minutes against a generous but raw Romania , ran riot against a Fijian side well below par and short of the menacing inspiration that made them a fearsome proposal in 1987 , while the game against Canada exposed the shortcomings that England later exploited with relish . |
| 3 | But so far neither has shown the tremendous flair with top-spin attacking that made them a major force in the world championships in Dortmund only seven months ago . |
| 4 | What is interesting about them is that while the development corporations acquired powers that gave them a great deal of autonomy within their own territories , there is today a variety of questions to be raised about the extent to which their ‘ success ’ was secured at the expense of other policies to which they ‘ ought ’ to have related . |
| 5 | Capitalist economic relations were established in the countryside through the ‘ enclosures ’ , where land became the private property of landowners and the rural work-force was stripped of the land-use rights that gave them an independent source of subsistence . |
| 6 | DAVID PLATT celebrated his Italian league debut for Juventus yesterday with the goal that earned them a 2-2 draw at Genoa . |
| 7 | THE AUSTRALIANS have decided to concentrate on sevens with the same single-mindedness that won them the 15-a-side title last year . |
| 8 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 9 | In one act at the exhibition hangar gave NAM ‘ back ’ its workshop , enabling the restoration of Anson C.19 VL348 to come on apace ; it allowed several of their exhibits the luxury of a controlled environment ; gave the Museum an ‘ all weather ’ visitor capability and made them a suitable location for the RAF Museum to loan them their Airspeed Oxford and North American Harvard — see the August issue . |
| 10 | The waiter brought two tall glasses and filled them a good way up with Courvoisier . |
| 11 | But they met anyway , in part because in their early childhood one or other of their parents , usually but not always the father , had taken them aside and told them a great responsibility would fall to them : the carrying forward of a hermetically protected family secret , and in part because the Society looked after its own . |
| 12 | French aplomb was to the fore as Auguste handed the crab to them along with the hook , raised his new Panama hat and bade them a courteous farewell . |
| 13 | We passed the Gordonstoun yachts , Pinta and Soldian , regular visitors to Stornoway , and gave them a cheery wave as they beat to windward towards Lismore Island . |
| 14 | I hung the carpets out and gave them a good beating . ’ |
| 15 | The police at Castlereagh allocated a cell to each man and gave them a good meal . |
| 16 | Philpott lowered the newspaper and gave them a wry smile . |
| 17 | He sat on it with the two little girls and gave them a big smile . |
| 18 | They went wild and made us promise to come back and give a display , so a few weeks later we returned and gave them the whole show . |
| 19 | It was the young Scots ' first win in four outings and gave them an outside chance of qualifying for the latter stages of the championship . |
| 20 | He took of his glasses , put them on the table and flipped them a short distance . |
| 21 | And carried them a fair portion of the journey : " The thing we have that is different from every other faith is that Christ is a living Saviour . |
| 22 | Hailed as a modern masterpiece , it drew on the basic elements of nineteenth-century picturesque — towers , pavilions , arches , and vaults — but gave them a distinct Scandinavian feel and line , the spirit of the sagas , as embodied in the gigantic statues at the entrance . |