Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] them [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 2 | In some of the more remote parishes , sculptures and carvings escaped the attentions of the iconoclasts , and elsewhere ornamental features such as carved fonts were boarded over and plastered to protect them from the commissioners . |
| 3 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 4 | Sister Cooney picked up a pile of books and began to replace them on the shelves . |
| 5 | Dismissing all but a single guard who was burdened with a lantern on a pole , he began to lead them by the bridges and passageways which cut across the streets in a way which was arguably more direct and certainly less likely to be barred by persistent celebrants . |
| 6 | The stresses and tensions in those early days got to me , even though I managed to obscure them from the viewers . |
| 7 | Men set off in a local bus commandeered to take them to the factories on the edge of the town . |
| 8 | Speaking after the presentation , Mr Ashwell said the Wedgwood Fine Dining Awards were coveted by restaurants around the world and appreciated by those who had received them over the years . |
| 9 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 10 | He had seen them through the gates . |
| 11 | Leslie was aware that most people " can not Read at all " , but said he had seen them in the streets " Gather together about one that can Read " and listen to a newspaper being read aloud . |
| 12 | Two of her brothers , boys of Martha 's age but half her height , fell into an exchange of sniggers and whispers , and Mada Joyce paused to smack them around the ears . |
| 13 | Ever since he had known her parents , he had had them in the palms of both his hands . |
| 14 | The result was a peerage granted by William and Mary in 1689 , when he had helped them through the troubles surrounding the deposition of James II . |
| 15 | But by now the rising waters had isolated them on the islands of Borneo , Sumatra and Java . |
| 16 | If they had given the matter any thought , however , and some incident had alerted them to the dangers of being too relaxed , there was no doubt they would have strained every muscle to elude the worst poverty . |
| 17 | News had reached them of the happenings at the manor and they rightly assumed that with Tom in charge of the manor farm they were not likely to be evicted from their forest camp . |
| 18 | A hurricane lamp and a pinpoint of light from a torch were all the girls had to guide them across the sleepers and rails . |
| 19 | Down in Tranent , which was somewhere near Edinburgh , and anything could have happened there — but old Donald had had this from Cameron himself , and he got newspapers by the carrier 's cart from Dunkeld — some miners had sworn not to serve , even if the King called on them , and the Volunteers had chased them into the cornfields and played havoc with their sabres … |
| 20 | Mother Francis had nurtured them behind the scenes , just as she had taken cuttings from the various bushes and plants in the convent garden and made a garden around the stony waste ground , the ugly edge of the cliff where Jack Malone had ended his life . |
| 21 | ‘ They wanted to see them off the streets . ’ |