Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] them [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that I 'd seen them together like that I started to have fantasies of being invited to watch them together , or to take photographs of them . |
| 2 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 3 | Once , when the shock of alarm thrilled through her with more than usual intensity , she began to sing , softly , to keep her spirits up , and several phrases had passed her lips before she realized that the song came from her childhood — that she had not sung those words for almost twenty years , had forgotten them even until this moment when , with startling clarity , her memory travelled back in time . |
| 4 | I had known them now for some time and smiled at the thought of their good company . |
| 5 | He added nothing more until he had brought them deep into thick woodland , threaded by a single open ride , where deep wheel-ruts still showed here and there in the moist ground , even after so many days . |
| 6 | The songs , stories and customs of the Claddagh dwellers had set them apart from other Galwegians , and the well-known Claddagh rings originated there . |
| 7 | News of Sir Thomas 's death had hit them hard in different ways . |
| 8 | It was unnatural , they said , hot days ought to start gradually , beginning with dawn , but this one had hit them suddenly between four and five in the afternoon . |
| 9 | In France State-owned arms factories were set up at Maubeuge and Charleville in 1718 ; the government made itself responsible for the supply of uniforms in 1747 ; and the old system of military hospitals , which had left them largely in private hands , was abolished in 1788 . |
| 10 | And Gershwin 's ‘ Rhapsody ’ , the one that had started them off on this road together . |
| 11 | The plastics and polymers which came into use between the wars were , or were claimed to be , the first man-made strong materials to come out of chemical laboratories and they rather went to the heads of the chemists , who supposed , not unnaturally , that these polymers were strong because they had put them together with strong chemical bonds . |
| 12 | He and Amy had collected large stones from the beach , looking for those with holes in them — and he had strung them on to strong cord and tied them along one side of the playpen . |
| 13 | As people bustled around him the Doctor had harangued them frantically with all the strength that was left to him . |