Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] them [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He threw a bottleful of his pills into the kitchen sink and tried to get them to go down the drain with the handle of a dishmop . |
| 2 | Rose , laughing , took the gloves away as he pretended to need them to wear about the house . |
| 3 | Benny , Ace and Petion arrived to find them milling around the door , testing it for electrification with a bayonet whose handle was securely wrapped with oilcloth . |
| 4 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 5 | Having made contact with a group of students at the nearby Architectural Association he went to see them play at the Goings On Club in Archer Street , a tiny place largely frequented by poets . |
| 6 | The bomb-bay of a Mosquito was too small to accommodate so large a bomb , and they had to carry them slung underneath the fuselage with the bomb doors open . |
| 7 | The public library has lost its soul because it has been absorbed into the modern semi-literate culture and because it did not have the knowledge and experience gained across generations that the old private libraries had to enable them to cope with the world of mass circulation popular fiction , for example , rather than the People 's University that Hoggart remembers from his youth in the Hunslet district of Leeds . |
| 8 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 9 | Then he had watched them walk to the main room with their arms around each other and kiss in the warm light before closing the door behind them . |
| 10 | Although they were still only in their teens , the two young Annamese had undergone a drastic change in appearance in the four years since the Sherman family had watched them gambolling around the cooking tent of their father , Ngo Van Loc , the hunting camp " boy " of Jacques Devraux . |
| 11 | Women in this situation had an important role and training had helped them to manage during the husband 's absence . |
| 12 | from Spain , where he had found them growing in the wild . |
| 13 | As a Greek and Latin scholar he had found them described in the works of ancient authors who wrote about the moods , emotions and actions of all the actors involved in their dramas . |
| 14 | Er doctor says not only was the taxing officer right in what he did , but he should of gone further and as I say he should of erm disallowed more interest , the basis of which erm doctor puts forward that submission before me seems to be two fold , first he points out that in fact the plaintiffs failed to perfect the order of Mr Justice er , er sorry Mr Justice erm , until the twenty fifth of May nineteen ninety three and that was a , I think he would say a probable failure on part of the plaintiffs and their solicitors to do with what his solicitor had asked them to do in the letter of the twenty third of April nineteen ninety one . |
| 15 | However , now was not the time to probe into his previous daydreams , and before anything further could be said a shout came from Matt , who had left them to attend to the fire burning beneath the two billies of water which hung from an iron bar . |
| 16 | It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’ |
| 17 | New divorce legislation reported on Dec. 9 was said to grant unprecedented rights to women , allowing divorcees to seek compensation through the courts for housework which husbands had ordered them to do during the marriage . |
| 18 | With that , bayonets glistening , they began to charge , converging from every angle of the hemisphere ; before they had advanced a dozen yards squadrons of lancers had overtaken them racing for the ramparts . |
| 19 | ‘ He refused to let them return in the New Year to London , ’ she said . |