Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] them [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel wrenched herself out of his embrace , aware of the barman watching them with an indulgent smile , as though they were lovers , not enemies . |
| 2 | Our questions ranged far and wide and his courtesy and patience turned them into an intriguing trail of discovery which was endlessly fascinating and richly rewarding , for he is also a natural raconteur . |
| 3 | If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider . |
| 4 | Their grandfather Traveller Ward ( David Kelly ) delights in telling the wide-eyed duo gypsy tales and one day presents them with an untamed white horse , which captures their imagination . |
| 5 | This has always been a problem for heads because the structure of the service puts them in an isolated position . |
| 6 | Despite this , on the marshy peat fens , even limited traffic reduced them to an impassable morass for long periods of the year . |
| 7 | The music school in Langbaurgh 's German twin town of Troisdorf has invited groups from the district to join them in an international concert in autumn . |
| 8 | Typically then they operate to defeat the title of the unpaid seller ( let us call him C ) who has entrusted his goods to a buyer who , without paying C , has in turn sold them to an innocent purchaser . |
| 9 | Important though these changes in the nature of the tax resistance movement are , however , perhaps it would be a mistake to view them as an isolated phenomenon , and to try to assess their moral and legal implications without also addressing some even more fundamental contemporary political , economic and social developments with which they are closely associated . |
| 10 | Dolly 's voice brought them to an abrupt halt . |
| 11 | If a teenager decides to earn money doing a paper round , or a Saturday job , there is no reason why their mother should set her alarm in order to wake them at an unearthly hour . |
| 12 | The wedding was held in 1920 at Mouthlock Methodist Chapel , at South Stainmore , where Mother was the organist and , much to her surprise and delight , the members of the chapel presented them with an inscribed silver teapot . |
| 13 | I think that the hatred and suspicion that Catholic and Protestants have of each other in the North locks them in an Eastern-European time-warp . |
| 14 | With the increasing number of cutters and the decision to operate them on an all year round basis the closed shop tendency for crewing of the earlier days could not continue . |