Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [to-vb] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Uncle George drove off , Carol began to tell them about the strange flight she 'd had on the broomstick , but then her gaze was caught by several dark objects lying in the snow of the lane ahead . |
| 2 | The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows . |
| 3 | And their Aussie coach Peter Walsh intends to repay them for the huge gamble they took when giving him the job last summer . |
| 4 | Next morning Mr Jarvis rang to tell them of the pleasure he and his daughter with her little friend had had when releasing the squirrel . |
| 5 | Tate left a number of finished canvases which had never been shown and Edwin decided to release them at the rate of one a year through Ismay Gorton 's , the London gallery which handles his work . |
| 6 | There 's nothing to inspect and without my words the photographs are useless unless Mitch decided to sell them to the national Press . |
| 7 | There was a pile of logs and some firelighters and paper in a large basket in the hearth , and Preston started to pile them in the grate while she continued her explorations in the garden . |
| 8 | Two of her brothers , boys of Martha 's age but half her height , fell into an exchange of sniggers and whispers , and Mada Joyce paused to smack them around the ears . |
| 9 | Already , seventy men had emigrated from the glen to America , and McQueen intended to follow them within the year . |
| 10 | And so , to punish Labour , Fitt refused to back them in the vote of confidence . |
| 11 | Moslems in Bosnia on Sept. 9 detained Milan Martic , the " Defence Minister " of the ( Serb ) " Krajina Republic " , together with three JNA officers but Bosnia 's Moslem President Alia Izetbegovic decided to release them to the federal authorities after Serbs threatened to attack the town . |