Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] them [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dragonfish has expanded them into spectacular defensive weapons , each ray barbed with poison . |
| 2 | There are cases where owners genuinely believe that their pet cat has followed them by some mystical means to a new home several thousand miles away from the original one . |
| 3 | Mr. Kemp is entitled to his opinions but why he chooses to express them in such flippant and dismissive manner is puzzling . |
| 4 | Clearly , children can not speak at birth , but Chomsky wishes to credit them with two distinct kinds of knowledge . |
| 5 | UHA and University House have suffered two sad losses during the year with the deaths of Arthur Butterworth , who was Warden 1968–81 , and Alice Godsell , a faithful supporter to many since her student days of the early 1920s , and UHA wishes to commemorate them through some lasting gifts in House . |
| 6 | ‘ I bet he manages to land them on poor old John in the end . ’ |
| 7 | He 's left them on fourteen odd hours and they 'll be running out . |