Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] them [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area . |
| 2 | Windows opened ; grocers ran to the doors of their shops ; customers stopped discussing bacon and turned ; our teachers wobbled on their bicycles as the noise buffeted them like a violent squall ; and boys sprinted to the school gates as they came out of the building , though many others , cool boys , shrugged or turned away in disgust , gobbing , cursing and scuffling their feet . |
| 3 | A car passed them on the single track road , heading north ; they stood aside to let it pass , waving at the single occupant when he waved at them . |
| 4 | The long black limousine drove them through the wintry city . |
| 5 | A heavy door swung open and a figure beckoned them into a warm lozenge of light . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They found that he knew what he wanted ; that he was persuasive in trying to get it ; that what he wanted was good ; and they suddenly realized that this new young professor dragged them into the twentieth century . |
| 8 | His Honour Judge Maddocks , dismissing their appeal , said the practice of the partnership was that of the two offices together because the partnership ran them as a single business . |
| 9 | After a dry tour , the brewery directed them to the local pub — which sells a RIVAL brew . |
| 10 | It was difficult to remember the route , but Lowell 's van in the bottom field signposted them in the right direction . |
| 11 | Grooms took their horses whilst a pompous steward of the Prince 's household led them up the main steps into the spacious hall . |
| 12 | Very light , very hurried steps , but the bare , glossy wood turned them into a muffled drum-roll . |
| 13 | That is the same price Leeds council paid them in the mid 1980 's and about £2.5m less than the local authority are looking for now . |
| 14 | The main street of the village faced them on the other side of the Westport road . |
| 15 | Then another child sorted them in a different way . |
| 16 | Faced with narrow options , the Chancellor broadened them in the only way realistically open to him — chronologically . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As the shirt-sleeved waiter preceded them across the crowded room , Polly was startled when people began calling out to Nathan . |
| 19 | A warm , salty breeze blew in from the Adriatic and sunlight sparkled on the water as their motor-boat taxi carried them towards the Grand Canal . |
| 20 | A sun umbrella sheltered them from the wan May sunshine . |
| 21 | Yet if Mosley came to see Lloyd George as a fellow economic radical , objections to the management of Irish policy divided them in the early 1920s . |
| 22 | Women elsewhere , different women , living by another code provided them with a common and inexhaustible theme . |
| 23 | The receptionist directed them to a private ward on the third floor . |
| 24 | Despite this , on the marshy peat fens , even limited traffic reduced them to an impassable morass for long periods of the year . |
| 25 | The assistant behind the counter acknowledged them with a curt nod and his eyes flickered towards an area of the shop hidden from the entrance . |
| 26 | ‘ Why do you think your father left them in the first place ? ’ |
| 27 | Without a word , the nun ushered them through the broad , thick oak door and into a tiled hall , there to be confronted by a statue of the Virgin Mary with the Child in her arms , and above her , on the wall , a large crucifix hanging at such an angle it appeared that Christ 's bent head was viewing Himself as a child in His mother 's arms . |
| 28 | The part of the Wallowa Valley desired by the Nez Perce in 1873 , and the completely contradictory area allocated them by the Indian Bureau . |
| 29 | The man stuffed them into a white plastic bag and ran off . |
| 30 | 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 . |