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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Minoans built cisterns or water tanks and lined them with water-resistant plaster . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Her teacher was white — indeed , all the teachers were white — and told them with great pride that she came from England . |
| 8 | They were the sport of rich noblemen who hunted and ate them with terrific enthusiasm — until there were none . |
| 9 | He plucked and ate them with surprising sensuality , sucking out the juice and spitting the pips into his left hand . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They pulled the chunky torches from their holsters , and primed them for high output . |
| 14 | John has also become quite adept at treating fish and he has bought several with faults and restored them to full health . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Intrigued by the idea the RAC drew up some rules and submitted them to other car manufacturers . |
| 18 | He hath put down the mighty from their seats and exalted them of low degree . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It declared them educable , took them out of their own homes and hospitals and brought them into full-time schooling . |
| 21 | The low sun touched the gentle white curves of the plateau with gold and bathed them in undeserved serenity . |
| 22 | The initial reason must have been Protestant fears of what Henri II , using his daughter-in-law , might do after the treaty of Chateau-Cambrèsis ; the public Protestant call to arms and the private and tentative contact with England were part of the same desperate reaction to a situation which left the Protestants no more time to move slowly , and forced them into overt action against the regent — the representative of legitimate authority — and , perhaps , a covert move against her daughter — the legitimate authority . |
| 23 | I went in as usual , took off my greatcoat and tunic and tie and made some small pancakes and dipped them in boiling fat — used to take me a quarter of an hour every night . |