Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] them [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ( We wrote the marks themselves on paper , so that these could not be changed by program , though we also kept them electronically in order to allow electronic analysis of marks . )
2 All eyes opened now to stare , and indeed the pages of the book were turning back , slowly , hesitantly , lingering erect only to slide onward , sometimes a single leaf , sometimes a stronger breath riffling several over together , almost as though fingers lifted and guided them , even fluttered them past in haste .
3 Oh well th they , they seemingly sent them away by rail somewhere .
4 We then drove them closer to town , where one of our men was readying the piles of clothes .
5 He duly explained them instead by inheritance , independent of the environment .
6 I never took them far from home , although I told Nonni I intended to in order to prevent her accompanying me , inventing expeditions to the common where she might tear her stockings on the brambles , or to the recreation ground which was a mile away , too far for her to walk in high-heeled shoes .
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