Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] them [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there !
2 Philpott led them to a pale-blue door at the end of the passage .
3 The replacements got their planes off the ground and Woolley marshalled them into a broad arrowhead , with Dickinson and Church out on the flanks .
4 In the worst of conditions , Gloucester were desperate to win and they made sure of victory in the first half , when Martin Roberts kicked them into a 6-0 lead with 2 penalties .
5 It must have taken a while from Taunton , Charles thought , as Frances drove them in the yellow Renault 5 along the route Lesley-Jane had described .
6 ‘ At the Brisbane Hotel dinner , Jimmy Conn treated them to the full Address to the Haggis , splendidly translated by interpreter Pru Williams . ’
7 Stephen took them up the zig-zag track .
8 Stephen had them in the handsome , leather-bound edition of the International Collectors ' Library and also in the paperbacks that had come out to go with the television series .
9 Owen accompanied them to the front entrance himself .
10 Meredith-Lee waved them to a comfortable sofa and sat down in an armchair opposite .
11 So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school , and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work .
12 The Oscar joined them in a pretty well-populated four foot tank in early May and appeared to ignore and be ignored by everybody .
13 Ideas flew from Lucy 's lips , Jay worked them into the right phrase , the right analogy .
14 Two Graham Bowen goals damaged Carlisle 's championship hopes as Redcar held them to a 2–2 draw .
15 Christina led them under an arched stone portico and through a labyrinth of white-stucco passageways opening onto vine-covered courtyards where tiny humming-birds fluttered through tall bamboo , and antique urns overflowed with red and pink angelica .
16 Eventually , Peter rid them of the first , hapless shop in San Francisco and , in 1981 , felt ready to open in New York .
17 Green painted them with the greatest of understanding and sensitivity .
18 Mr. Novak placed them in a 35 gallon tank containing three large Echinodorus Sword plants and a great deal of driftwood .
19 Lloyd George defended them by an aggressive verbal attack on the privileges of landowners :
20 They did not like Vine , recognizing that the Major despised them as a lumpen , dull ugly mass , but the men themselves knew better ; they were Wellington 's infantry , the finest of the best , and they were marching east and south to where a pall of gun-smoke was forming like a dark cloud over a far crossroads and to where the guns cleared their throats to beckon men to battle .
21 When Lufthansa pulled out of sponsoring the Women 's European Open , Mrs Doyle replaced them with The European newspaper .
22 A fast trip through central London whisked them past the main tourist attractions and out to the suburbs to the International Training College where they were to stay .
23 The whole family dreaded going to court , so Theresa took them to an empty courtroom , showed them where everyone sat and explained what would happen .
24 Again the Cobblers held them to a goalless draw after being reduced to ten men , but this time it was not through injury : half-back Manning was sent off after twenty-five minutes for tripping Forest 's West from behind .
25 And then , before she could prepare herself , Luke swung them through a wide gateway buried deeply in the trees .
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