Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] them [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Prior to laying the information Mrs Bujok had not served an abatement notice upon the council or informed them of the alleged defects in the premises . |
2 | I refer , of course , to unsupported mothers , women who have neither shirked their obligation to have children , nor left them to seek jobs , nor abandoned them to the tender mercies of the social services — , |
3 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
4 | At the top of the staircase various Chamberlains , dressed in gold embroidered jackets , welcomed the guests and led them to the Grand Master of Ceremonies . |
5 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
6 | In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price . |
7 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
8 | I took the wad of twenties out of the bag and stuffed them into the back pocket of my jeans . |
9 | So because they do n't like the sound of this the other two have drawn off their magic stone and got them into the top jobs in er consortium ! |
10 | And at once , two more leapt forward and scooped up the bleeding lumps of flesh and bone and flung them into the open furnaces . |
11 | ‘ I 'll bring her , ’ said Caspar , and sat back and regarded them with the plump pleasure of a person who has reached a final decision . |
12 | The Junkers tolerated the troublesome middle classes only because they guaranteed the Junkers their place in German society ; the middle classes looked up to the Junker traditional leadership , and regarded them as the German image of itself . |
13 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
14 | In a typical drive in March 1990 , Penghu fishermen rounded up a mixed herd of 50 to 60 bottlenose dolphins and false killer whales ( Pseudorca ) , and drove them through the narrow channel into Shakang Harbour . |
15 | It was Karl Franz who led the charge of the Reiksguard at the battle of Norduin against the Bretonnians , where the Emperor 's personal valour finally broke the resistance of the Bretonnian flank guard and drove them from the narrow defile which they had defiantly held throughout the battle . |
16 | He worked each through a transition training programme with the assigned aircraft and schooled them on the forthcoming filming . |
17 | And when Albert and Mister Johnny came in , she cut the pie and told them about the big fair that was held every Michaelmas in the Norfolk village where she had lived when she was a little girl about the gay gipsy carts and the fire eater , and the booth where you could have a tooth pulled for sixpence with a brass band to drown your screams ; about the two-headed calf and the Bearded Lady and the Toffee Woman . |
18 | At a glassed-in box-office an immigration officer , seated high above , examined their passports again and subjected them to the piercing but impersonal stare of his kind . |
19 | She scooped up the bits of spilt polystyrene in her hand and dropped them into the waste-paper basket . |
20 | ( a ) It confirms whether you have correctly identified and understood the main points and separated them from the subsidiary details . |
21 | Hazel turned back and joined them among the big , rosy-veined , magenta flower-spikes . |
22 | In June 1901 , the Board received a letter in which he expressed his gratitude for the provision of a room for himself , and congratulated them on the efficient way in which the alterations had been carried out . |
23 | But in practise , in India , Sikh communities have seized both these concepts and exploited them to the full . |
24 | Yet here , on the verge of the Lowlands , most of the gentry had hedged their bets ; some had even entertained the Butcher as he progressed triumphally from one massacre to the next and had then bought over the gutted glens and stocked them with the great sheep . |
25 | Loyalist protesters have shouted ‘ SS-RUC ’ and ‘ Dublin 's lap dogs ’ , whilst some elected MPs have exhorted RUC men to resign or mutiny and warned them of the possible consequences of their ‘ disloyalty ’ ( ibid . ) . |
26 | After the monitor had gathered up the papers and placed them on the small , square , wooden table that acted as the sister 's desk , the class sat quiet , waiting anxiously for the verdict , a tick or a large cross , the while automatically mumbling Hail Marys . |
27 | He picked her legs up one by one , and placed them on the two benches . |
28 | He considered him as he caused coffee to be produced and established them at the big table at the other end of his room . |
29 | They carried the bodies in silence across the room and dumped them into the wooden container . |
30 | MADRID — A distraught blind man , Manuel Eulogio Suarez , cornered his three tiny children in their flat in Vigo , north-west Spain and tossed them over the sixth-floor balcony , apparently after a row with his estranged wife . |