Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 2 | ‘ So , ’ he was saying to the Prince 's chauffeur as Owen arrived , ‘ you picked the two girls up from the salon and took them to the river at Beni Suef ? ’ |
| 3 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 4 | Benjamin drew three gold coins from his purse and placed them in the centre of the table . |
| 5 | Members of the Colchester Colne Round Table Club collected the party of eight-to-12-year-olds from the Greenstead estate by minibus and took them to the Wilson Marriage Centre in Barrack Street . |
| 6 | A coal-black manservant came out to the carriage and showed them into the house . |
| 7 | That put Swansea 8–6 in front at half-time , but even then the Aussies could n't have expected the storm that awaited them in the second half . |
| 8 | JONATHAN Davies scored 20 points as Widnes went on a scoring spree that took them into the second round of the Lancashire Cup . |
| 9 | Prior to laying the information Mrs Bujok had not served an abatement notice upon the council or informed them of the alleged defects in the premises . |
| 10 | It was Karl Franz who led the charge of the Reiksguard at the battle of Norduin against the Bretonnians , where the Emperor 's personal valour finally broke the resistance of the Bretonnian flank guard and drove them from the narrow defile which they had defiantly held throughout the battle . |
| 11 | They put pins in their chairs , threw their clothes out of the window and locked them in the bathroom . |
| 12 | The TV reporter swung his eyes back from the window and trained them on the superintendent in a long , calculating stare . |
| 13 | Earnestly , Oz scooped them out of the basket and held them towards the woman . |
| 14 | Supposedly a giant called Cormoran , known as the Lord of St Michael 's Mount , carried the boulders from the mainland and dumped them in the sea to make the mound . |
| 15 | She dropped them on the chopping-board and crushed them under the blade of her knife . |
| 16 | The glass itself was converted into smudged mirrors which enlarged their ambience and distanced them from the storm . |
| 17 | I once took all eleven of my Dad 's angelfish to school in a jam-jar and poured them into the pond to keep the goldfish company . |
| 18 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 19 | So he caught them up in his cloak and carried them to the top of the mountain , and there he showed them all the treasures and towns and palaces that were in the world . |
| 20 | Their education certainly suffered as the teachers did not like them interrupting the curriculum and sat them at the back of the class and told them to write home . |
| 21 | They became aware , therefore , of the vast gulf that separated them from the supreme Reality and the great confessional religions were born to meet these new conditions . |
| 22 | He scrambled down into the cold , howling plain that separated them from the stones . |
| 23 | Working frantically and fast Franca dragged her clothes out of the wardrobe , carried them onto the landing and threw them down the stairs . |
| 24 | Eddy v Niman is open to the criticism that in the terms of s.3(1) there was an assumption of the rights of the owner when he took the goods from the shelf and placed them in the shopping trolley . |
| 25 | Then she heaved the pails out of the trough and carried them into the dairy , pouring some of the milk carefully into wide pans for the cream to rise . |
| 26 | I once took all eleven of my dad 's Angel Fish to school in a jam jar and poured them into the pond to keep the goldfish company . ’ |
| 27 | The hill people cut the palms down in the forest and brought them to the shore for fish . |
| 28 | He raised his sword and answered them with the same word . |
| 29 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 30 | Yeah cos what , what they said like , their own , cos they run out of wine at the bar and er , they went in the supermarket and got two bottles of wine and kept them on the table you see |