Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I had put these into a plastic bag that I found lying beside them under the dressing-table , I put my hand on her shoulder , about to shake her . |
| 2 | We tried to reason with them about the bathroom . |
| 3 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 4 | I asked my friends who have had au pairs what they 'd expected of them in the kitchen . |
| 5 | The actress had been venomous when she 'd chanced upon them in the corridor , but she 'd displayed the spitefulness of a disappointed woman , not a wronged one . |
| 6 | These data were all to hand by early February and he prepared to speak about them at the APS ( American Physical Society ) meeting set for 1 May , sending in an abstract for the announcement of the talk . |
| 7 | The origins of the black cat , as a distinct colour type , have been traced back to the ancient Phoenicians , who sneaked some of the sacred cats out of Egypt and began trading in them around the Mediterranean . |
| 8 | I really needed to go to the toilet , but that meant walking past them onto the other side of the hall . |
| 9 | But , they did write to them on the counter and that that trouble , and she said that you know , that we can walk round there you know . |
| 10 | She had to perform for them with the spotlight on her and she knew that no trick would be good enough . |
| 11 | Ran refers to them as the Nottingham KGB , ’ Dr Allan said . |
| 12 | Three of these were his fellow truckers from the night Jim Miller had stumbled into them at the gas station . |
| 13 | A second set of trophies , the Thirsk Bowman 's Insignia , was presented in 1884 , after the death of Henry Peckett who had looked after them since the demise of that society . |
| 14 | Jesus had not left them orphans : he had come to them in the person of the Spirit , who was not only the special gift of the Messiah to the messianic people in order to enable them to know his continued presence with them , but was the first instalment of the Age to Come , the pledge that the last days which had dawned with Jesus of Nazareth would , one day , come to God 's perfect conclusion . |
| 15 | The occupants of this very undesirable residence with no mod. cons. were gobbling their way through two chicks a day each , which we continued to feed to them on the ledge , right near their box , every morning and late afternoon . |
| 16 | ‘ Ross — I do wish that … ’ she began , hoping even at this last moment for some word , some sign that the scorching , torrid passion that had exploded between them in the Hamptons had meant as much to him as it had to her . |
| 17 | He was enthusiastic about the paper being located in Manchester , whereas Pilger had clashed with them over the move . |
| 18 | Edward Pitt had called on them in the evening . |
| 19 | We explained that we had to do without them for the most part — and be tankful for the older ones and the women . |
| 20 | The Gnomes had rolled the designs for the new Crown Jewels into cylinders and packed them carefully into long , hollow tubes , which they had brought with them for the purpose . |
| 21 | When they had recovered they hurriedly cooked and ate the ration of cold rice they had brought with them from the barracks and swallowed a mouthful or two of water . |
| 22 | An alternative way of examining this example might be to see the individuals as employees or representatives of the organisation , and thus as exercising the rights the organisation had gained for them through the treaty , independent of their member States . |
| 23 | It was suggested in 1948 by two refugees from Nazi-occupied Austria , Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold , together with a Briton , Fred Hoyle , who had worked with them on the development of radar during the war . |
| 24 | Owen had a badly gashed forearm , Cynan some splinters of his own shaft lodged deep under his ribs , and all of them minor cuts and bruises ; but they had left behind them on the crest several of their enemies wounded by lances and arrows , some probably dead . |
| 25 | The Caribbeans who came to London in the main waves of migration in the 1950s and early 1960s were not on the whole from the lowest social classes , although " the employment made available to West Indians was mainly menial and often of lower status than the jobs they had left behind them in the West Indies " ( Dalphinis 1991 : 46 ) . |
| 26 | She saw the long sheds , and the wooden posts , shining and smooth where the cows had rubbed against them over the years . |
| 27 | I had to get to them through the once you get to them |
| 28 | Few words had passed between them over the past week , and now she could see that it was with an effort he said , ‘ Your mother tells me about this idea of hers . |
| 29 | Others wrote about what Walter Machin 's books had meant to them at the time of their publication , and to these Viola wrote faintly magisterial replies of thanks and interest which usually also contained subtle plugs for the two books which were as yet unpublished . |
| 30 | Men and women had fought in the College of Surgeons opposite and British soldiers had fired upon them from the roof of this very hotel . |