Example sentences of "[vb past] them [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 2 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 3 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 4 | Well it , it , not yesterday , the day before , I got them under my right shoulder blade , |
| 5 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 6 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 7 | It was , in fact , the professional warrener , the man who became each estate 's killing machine , who perfected the various sporting methods that exist today and who honed them to their maximum effectiveness . |
| 8 | So when I approached them with my intricate scheme for escaping the greedy jaws of Mr Kinnock and his pals via the strategic disappearance of Punch , they saw the beauty of it straightaway . |
| 9 | Also , the process of writing often brings fresh insights to mind , and helps to ground them in your everyday life — as anyone who keeps a dream diary will know . |
| 10 | After a long time , a familiar voice woke them from their lazy reverie . |
| 11 | The storm came and drove them into their flimsy shelter . |
| 12 | On a Jamaican cattle ranch acquired in settlement of some debts , he freed the slaves and transported them at his own expense to Philadelphia for resettlement . |
| 13 | Feeling drugged , and wanton , she touched her fingers to his nape , his ears , tangled them in his thick hair , felt his soft sigh as his breath mingled with hers — and still he continued to kiss her . |
| 14 | Regretfully , I consigned them to my personal museum of surfing memorabilia along with my Coogee Beach swallow-tail radical intermediate . |
| 15 | Andrew bought young horses and made them well , Nicandra showed them to their best advantage , she had become a beautiful horsewoman . |
| 16 | Molly congratulated the 16 successful candidates at this year 's examination , presented certificates to those who were present and welcomed them to their first training day as qualified teachers . |
| 17 | His screams were so terrible that none who ever heard them forgot them till their dying day . |
| 18 | They used the Greek orders , adapted them to their own taste , added two more variations and employed them constructively in temples and basilicas but more often , especially in later work , only decoratively when the arch mode of construction was used , for example , in the Colosseum and the Theatre of Marcellus . |
| 19 | But Lord Justice MacDermott did not impose any conditions when he released them on their own bail of £100 . |
| 20 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
| 21 | Both fly halves favoured high kicks , but Bircham fielded them with his usual aplomb . |
| 22 | I allowed a couple of hours for this to mix with the original water then netted the goldfish and placed them in their new environment . |
| 23 | It took the London store magnate Gordon Selfridge , who included them in his own advertising copy in the evening papers , to show that publishing them would increase the value of the paper to its readers , rather than make them desert to a rival medium . |
| 24 | Any queries about the machines being taken away had been answered with the half-truth that the police needed them for their own use . |
| 25 | He also related them to his own state of affairs . |
| 26 | I recently saw them at my local garden centre . |
| 27 | To make matters even more wretched than they already were , Celia cried both day and night and because of Liza 's deepening depression Harriet found it was she who was forced to bear the brunt of this , so much so that after a while she simply swept up baby and cot and took them into her own bedroom . |
| 28 | After settling the children into their hotel , the team took them on their first visit — to Disney 's Magic Kingdom , a giant playground of spectacular rides . |
| 29 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 30 | Instead he went into his own church , secured the door , lit candles and took them to his small carrel where he placed his writing tray . |