Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These ‘ Kitchen Sink ’ painters , as the critic David Sylvester dubbed them in 1954 , owing to their preference for painting not tasteful still lifes but the debris left on the kitchen table or the image of a child being bathed in a sink , enjoyed overnight success . |
| 2 | Stockport 's second victory in four days at Edgeley Park moved them into second position in the Fourth Division . |
| 3 | Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each . |
| 4 | They all knew that they had to go on fighting , and be strong for their children , and Mr Edwards commended them for that strength . |
| 5 | Asked on News at Ten about attacks on him by Mr Baker and other Tories , Mr Kinnock accused them of negative campaigning . |
| 6 | Deputy Judge Harold Hewitt jailed them for eight years each . |
| 7 | The ‘ drifting youth of the welfare state ’ , as Arthur Bryant described them in 1954 , ‘ become the inevitable prey of the gang-leader or , at best , grow up to lead , despite all the material opportunities of our age , inert , stunted and purposeless lives ’ . |
| 8 | Mrs Boswell had packed sheets in her husband 's luggage , and Joseph Ritter laid them on both beds . |
| 9 | And er Les Dawson had them in bloody fits . |
| 10 | When Captain Cook encountered them in 1778 the Eskimos of Bering Strait were using iron knives and wearing glass beads . |
| 11 | Andrew Houston marshalled them unto one group in a roadway well away from where the inrush of peat had occurred ; it was a place still free from sludge but they wondered for how long it would be so . |
| 12 | Malengin Fole led them through several apartments , all of them apparently abandoned . |