Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb past] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 2 | On their return to Orkney , however , the Social Work Department put them into the Camoran Children 's Home in Kirkwall . |
| 3 | A sun umbrella sheltered them from the wan May sunshine . |
| 4 | The team were then treated to a meal and the mill manager presented them with the Challenge Trophy [ through gritted teeth ] and before the lads could get the lens caps off their cameras , they took it back , saying that the cup would stay at Rank 's but Rentokil 's name would be put on . |
| 5 | As the official indictment says , ‘ officers on duty from the Lhasa Public Security Bureau seized them on the spot with the swiftness of a thunderbolt ’ . |
| 6 | A hawthorn hedge divided them on the left from the field belonging to Upmeadow Farm , while on the right-hand side their territory was bounded by a swift little stream . |
| 7 | The opening encounter took them to the small island of St Vincent , where the pitch was some way from international standard . |
| 8 | The trip home took them over the Bay of Biscay , and they descended ‘ on the deck ’ as planned , flying no more than 100 feet above the water . |
| 9 | The leaf-people are also cool , their food being the morning dew and the cool incense smoke offered them by the Chewong . |
| 10 | They 'd just set foot back in the ship proper when the burst of machine gun fire rooted them to the spot . |