Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] them [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malengin Fole led them through several apartments , all of them apparently abandoned . |
| 2 | At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel . |
| 3 | Evesham drew them from several Cotswold parishes ; the abbot of Owston received 2 marks a year from Tickencote . |
| 4 | In their first game the Transvaal beat them by fifty runs . |
| 5 | In fact they were painted from dead specimens , and to get within range of a naturalist was a misfortune for a nineteenth-century bird or animal ; but Audubon painted them against realistic backgrounds , and in more or less plausible action . |
| 6 | Simon the Trapper led them by devious paths to the lakeside hut . |
| 7 | Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each . |
| 8 | Oxford 's two-one win at home to Peterborough lifted them into sixteenth place in the First Division . |
| 9 | The Buddhist-managed Lakrivikirana divided them into two categories . |
| 10 | Mrs Boswell had packed sheets in her husband 's luggage , and Joseph Ritter laid them on both beds . |
| 11 | Pears was Boro 's hero when Cambridge put them under fierce pressure in the first half . |
| 12 | Certainly Cromwell regarded them with some anxiety , and in 1533 he made Throckmorton promise that he would ‘ stay at home and meddle little with politics ’ . |
| 13 | Gestures of this kind were part of the vocabulary of politics ; an astute politician like Philip used them to great effect . |
| 14 | That left seven , easily outnumbered by Boscawen 's 15 , plus frigates , and he used his superiority to crushing effect in an action which began around 1.30 pm and continued next day , when the last four French ships were driven into Lagos Bay , about 19 miles [ 30 km ] east of Cape St Vincent , on the coast of Portugal , where Boscawen pursued them into Portuguese waters . |
| 15 | A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . |
| 16 | Franks led them through some swing doors with a flourish and into another corridor , explaining that normally he would not waste money by taking them to a full editing suite . |
| 17 | Emily regarded them with cynical appraisal . |
| 18 | Coming back to the family after being away for so long except for short periods , Joe saw them with new eyes . |
| 19 | Asked on News at Ten about attacks on him by Mr Baker and other Tories , Mr Kinnock accused them of negative campaigning . |
| 20 | They all knew that they had to go on fighting , and be strong for their children , and Mr Edwards commended them for that strength . |
| 21 | They were gradually weaned off the drugs and Valnet treated them with internal doses of essential oils instead . |
| 22 | And er Les Dawson had them in bloody fits . |
| 23 | At first Alistair took them for other screenplay writers and wedged himself behind the door , at the back of the queue . |
| 24 | Deputy Judge Harold Hewitt jailed them for eight years each . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | No doubt some contemporaries of the journalists who uncovered Watergate accused them of partisan bias and lack of balance — but I doubt that any of these commentators would have drawn an analogy between this investigative reporting and the repeated and transparently mendacious press statements of the Nixon Administration . |
| 27 | There were things embroidered in red wool on the top flap of the bag ; in time Carolyn recognized them as feminist symbols . |
| 28 | Eadmer inserted them at this point into his Historia Novorum . |
| 29 | Long John told them about Black Dog , saying , ‘ That was how it was , was n't it , Hawkins ? ’ |
| 30 | Rostov addressed them in colonial argot and they grinned in response . |