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Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [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	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 .
3	JONATHAN Davies scored 20 points as Widnes went on a scoring spree that took them into the second round of the Lancashire Cup .
4	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 .
5	He scrambled down into the cold , howling plain that separated them from the stones .
6	They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea .
7	They ate and drank , sitting tucked into long grass that screened them from the river ; they could hear the flow of it , and the occasional plop of a fish .
8	First Floss and Tibbs retired to their tent to dispel this foretaste of the middle-aged grossness that awaited them in the exercise of their healthy young bodies .
9	The village rector asked the mourners to try to show the same love that brought them to the service …
10	Instead , he was leaning forward , peering through the glass that separated them from the chauffeur and glaring furiously at the car in front of them .
11	Their strength is team work and a club-like atmosphere that took them to the finals in Spain and Mexico in the 1980s .
12	Helen watched him until he rounded the corner , then walked Nicola the ten or so yards along the street that took them to the entrance to her building .