Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] them [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lathes were introduced to China perhaps as early as the Ming dynasty and were still being used in the jade workshops of Peking when Howard Hansford came to study them in 1938–9 . |
| 2 | Dustin left to join them at 11.30 . |
| 3 | Accordingly when Bishop Mauger attempted to visit them in 1202 , both parties , bishop and monks , believing in the rightness of their positions , appealed to the pope , and the abbey also appealed to the archbishop of Canterbury for tuition , or protection of this appeal , while matters were pending . |
| 4 | After the closed meeting , military sources reported that Yeltsin had informed them of 90 per cent pay rises which he had ordered the previous week . |
| 5 | Although the LTTE denied involvement in the assassination , it was widely noted that they had a strong motive , believing that Gandhi had betrayed them in 1987 when he dispatched the Indian army in an unsuccessful effort to bring Sri Lanka 's civil strife under control [ see p. 35313 ] . |
| 6 | Martinho had led them from one identical spot to another , sure each time it was the place , blundering through the heat and humidity with a fresh excuse burbling from his thick lips . |
| 7 | Since the early part of the 1960s the sense that the universities needed to take their national role more seriously , as Reid had reminded them in 1948 , had been somewhat enhanced by the appointment of the Robbins Committee . |