Example sentences of "[vb past] them [prep] [pron] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But Lord Justice MacDermott did not impose any conditions when he released them on their own bail of £100 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Any queries about the machines being taken away had been answered with the half-truth that the police needed them for their own use . |
| 9 | He also related them to his own state of affairs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Although they often used traditional remedies , they also associated them with their own poverty and neglect . |
| 12 | Prisoners arrested for Forest trespasses ought to have been handed over to the sheriff of Rutland for imprisonment in Oakham castle , but Neville put them in his own gaol at Allexton , which was ‘ full of water at the bottom ’ , and bound them with iron chains . |
| 13 | It was alleged ( a ) that the plaintiff was possessed of the goods ; ( b ) that he accidentally lost them ; ( c ) that the defendant found them ; ( d ) that the defendant converted them to his own use . |