Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] them [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as she bent to cuddle them a small boy , brushing down a pony , picked up a lump of mud and hurled it at the dogs to drive them off . |
| 2 | He was by no means unusual for his place and time : there were not a few London families in the mid-19th century who were busy accumulating all the paraphernalia that seemed to give them a gilt-edged claim to middle-class respectability — the portraits , the studio photographs , a family bible , ornate gravestones , even the odd crest and Latin motto . |
| 3 | Cleverly , Mme Belmont-Laon retained the formality of the nineteenth-century rooms , with their mahogany showcases and cabinets , and yet , by her use of colour and light , contrived to give them a modern elegance . |
| 4 | ’ There was even some guy in Minnesota or Detroit or somewhere who killed a load of people and they started to call them the Lost Boy Murders , but I did n't take too much notice of it all . |
| 5 | ‘ They are such good supporters , we decided to make them an introductory offer on the new wallpaper and give them a helping hand to put it up , ’ said Boro marketing manager Mitch Hatfield . |
| 6 | Went to see them the other week |
| 7 | Journalists who may be minded to look at court or police records should bear in mind that an official persuaded to show them a spent conviction is liable to a fine , and if they make their persuasion more persuasive by a bribe , or obtain access to the record dishonestly , they themselves are liable to imprisonment for up to six months . |
| 8 | I give them a , I did give them a good rinse afterwards though . |
| 9 | they 'd take a piece with them and that was all they had to sustain them the whole day . |
| 10 | Their shared interests and their long , friendly relationship had given them a complete understanding of each other 's character , and this finally developed , after their wedding , into a love that nothing could destroy . |
| 11 | Nutty had given them a thorough grounding in the process , and put out the evening feeds ready , not trusting them to get the quantities right . |
| 12 | For some — especially Jane — Henry 's presence had given them a new role , a new meaning ! |
| 13 | In the early stages England had given them a certain amount of help , partly out of sympathy for their Protestant religious beliefs and partly to check the power of Spain — it was this war in the Netherlands , more than the troubles in South America , which convinced Philip that he should try to invade England . |
| 14 | Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper . |
| 15 | Empirical research in the 1960s demonstrated that even in the cases where the middle class had been initially progressive , success had given them a conservative outlook and led them to join forces with the traditional elite rather than with the working class ( Ratinoff 1967 , Sunkel 1965 ) . |
| 16 | The Seven had given them no real choice : they could be Han or they could be nothing . |
| 17 | as if he read Wickham 's mind , Shildon wrapped up the discussion , said he had given them the important stuff and the rest could wait . |
| 18 | But they quickly realised the judge had done them a great disservice and that his report hinged on a massive irony . |
| 19 | FOOTBALL fans thought Lord Justice Taylor had done them a big favour when his report into the Hillsborough tragedy condemned the ill-thought ID card scheme to the dustbin of history . |
| 20 | But if they would work no more and no faster than the job required , they would work no slower and no less : nobody had to give them a special incentive to give of their best . |
| 21 | Neither Fedorov nor the man who had evaded them the other night had put in an appearance , and the chance of their doing so now seemed remote . |
| 22 | The reasonable interpretation of their experience seems to demand that by the time the chain had reached them the actual result of the observation had become fixed . |
| 23 | The mulatto who had greeted them the previous morning was not in evidence as Benny passed through the lobby , for which she was grateful . |
| 24 | With the usual lack of euphemism , the overseers enter the rubric ‘ Dead ’ against her name at the beginning of 1786 ; their accounts for 10 January indicate that it had cost them the grand sum of 3s. 9d. to bury three paupers : ‘ West Wife ; Titford and Robbans ’ . |
| 25 | With an effort she turned to Jos , who had followed them a short way . |
| 26 | But he had left them the inestimable advantage of the eighty Normans on their strong horses . |
| 27 | The violent citizens sought to kill or abduct the Pope when Barbarossa refused to pay them an immense bribe . |