Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] them [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Four troopers had them by the arms and were hustling them out into the coach .
2 The swing of the hurricane was bringing them back into the eye of the storm .
3 His first instinct was to fling them out of the window ; to put as much distance as he could between them and him .
4 ‘ All he had to do was follow them back to the agency , come in as though wanting to book a holiday , and there was gullible little Hilary all ready and waiting to fall in love .
5 Anyway , most of these girls grew out of these crushes — soon the great problem was to keep them away from the Grammar School boys at the other end of the road .
6 They ran away , although this was taking them further into the old town when they had hoped to escape from it .
7 What they had failed to do was pass them on to the laity .
8 Hastings had showed an interest in the Yarmouth fisheries , with the four main Kentish ports , long before the Conquest ; what the latter did eventually was to weld them together in a loose federation for supplying ship rather than knight service in return for limited privileges .
9 Murray bought his compass and they walked on together , beginning the skein of meaningless jokes and catchwords which was to bind them together in the next few weeks .
10 And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said .
11 I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ .
12 Hugh was watching them suspiciously from a nearby table .
13 The start of the second half promised an exciting come back after Whelan scored , but it was n't to be : Leeds ' play became increasingly frenetic and desperate , and Sunderland players kept going over like someone in the crowd was working them over with a machine gun .
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