Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] them [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 2 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 3 | Madame raised her crackling voice from the large brown desk where she presided in the hall beyond , and asked them with unusual largesse if they would like some refreshment . |
| 4 | They took their toys to The Priory Church of England School and sold them to each other to help the starving in Somalia . |
| 5 | He was a man of profound education , but having acquired it himself he treasured words and used them with unique skill and often with a strange individuality . |
| 6 | The Minoans built cisterns or water tanks and lined them with water-resistant plaster . |
| 7 | I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing . |
| 8 | These entities are placed on Earth to manage coincidences in such a way as to inch us gradually along the evolutionary path and , while on Ketamine , Lilly was able to communicate with these extraterrestrials , who informed him that they had removed DNA samples from Earth and transported them to another planet . |
| 9 | Despenser , made chamberlain of the king 's household in the autumn of 1318 , was son of an old servant of the king who was also called Hugh , but the young man was greedy and tactless on a scale which surpassed Gaveston and alarmed and alienated particularly the lords of the Welsh Marches ( where he laid claim to extensive lands ) and drove them into uneasy alliance with Lancaster . |
| 10 | Her teacher was white — indeed , all the teachers were white — and told them with great pride that she came from England . |
| 11 | They were the sport of rich noblemen who hunted and ate them with terrific enthusiasm — until there were none . |
| 12 | He plucked and ate them with surprising sensuality , sucking out the juice and spitting the pips into his left hand . |
| 13 | ‘ When Napoleon besieged Jaffa , ’ Damiani said , ‘ my ancestor Anton Damiani interceded on behalf of the Muslim population and protected them from French anger — we have an official certificate from the sharia court to this effect . ’ |
| 14 | He took off the phoney glasses and tweed hat and threw them to one side . |
| 15 | She 's got her stocking feet right up between his legs and cuddles his feet in her ample bosom , having previously removed his shoes and socks and displayed them in sideways V-sign on the little shelf at the window . |
| 16 | Thanks to their extensive plagiarism from the Old Testament , Clement argued , Plato and the Greek philosophers had found out many true things and expressed them in beautiful language . |
| 17 | They pulled the chunky torches from their holsters , and primed them for high output . |
| 18 | But whereas Edouard loved cars for their design , and their beauty , and collected them on that basis , Grégoire loved them for the engines under their gleaming bonnets . |
| 19 | Improving staff morale — Staff also felt that the care programme approach could help their morale and broaden their repertoire of interventions when the training process they received ‘ valued staff ’ and taught them about each other 's professional skills and local resources . |
| 20 | John has also become quite adept at treating fish and he has bought several with faults and restored them to full health . |
| 21 | Walkden & berry ( 1984 ) correlated CL zones in overgrowth cements from the Upper Dinantian of northern Britain , and ascribed them to cyclic replenishment of vadose and shallow meteoric water tables in calcretized marine limestones . |
| 22 | He and Amy had collected large stones from the beach , looking for those with holes in them — and he had strung them on to strong cord and tied them along one side of the playpen . |
| 23 | Enough of these huacas remain , however , for the biologist Tony Morrison to have plotted several ceques and recorded them by infra-red photography as narrow lines in the vegetation . |
| 24 | Intrigued by the idea the RAC drew up some rules and submitted them to other car manufacturers . |
| 25 | He hath put down the mighty from their seats and exalted them of low degree . |
| 26 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 27 | I did this experiment in four frenzied weeks in 1984 with a fanatically hard-working , Warsaw-based autoradiographer , Margaret Kossut , and repeated them in more detail the following year with a neuroanatomist from Budapest , Andras Csillag , who helped identify the anatomical structures in which Margaret and I had found the changes . |
| 28 | Poets had found their way over ( and sometimes back , to tell the tale ) ; so had a good number of priests over the centuries , and hermits , meditating on their essence so hard the In Ovo enveloped them and spat them into another world . |
| 29 | It declared them educable , took them out of their own homes and hospitals and brought them into full-time schooling . |
| 30 | 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 . |