Example sentences of "[vb past] them [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 2 | We really felt that this was a book to push on , and so we talked to the trade very early on , consulted them on the jacket and so on . |
| 3 | So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely . |
| 4 | He met them at the gate and was smiling . |
| 5 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 6 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 7 | When I met them after the game and asked them what they thought , they said the highlight was listening to the girl behind them telling her mate that if Batty did n't start playing better then she 'd have to start denying him sex ! ! ! |
| 8 | Talbot led them to the wardroom and gestured them to their seats . |
| 9 | He led them across the hall and through the dining-room , down a corridor and into what he explained was a private dining-room where members could entertain groups of friends or associates . |
| 10 | The barmaid led them from the bar and up some rickety steps . |
| 11 | When they arrived at Auckland Alexander asked them for the silver and his Presence was such that they did not dare to tell him that they had no silver , so Joan said that it was ‘ in the bank ’ . |
| 12 | We asked them to the meeting and we look forward to listening to you later on in the agenda . |
| 13 | She asked them about the child and they said they had just found him . |
| 14 | IT was Ballymoney who started the game in livelier fashion and with only ten minutes played Willie McNeill almost headed them into the lead when he made perfect contact with McKendry 's cross only to see his header strike the woodwork . |
| 15 | Trent found them on the floor and watched the old man thread the sprung arms over his ears . |
| 16 | ‘ We found them behind the house when we moved in . |
| 17 | With UN approval MacArthur pursued them across the parallel and on towards the Yalu River which marked the border with Communist China . |
| 18 | So she helped them into the boat and they embraced one another . |
| 19 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |
| 20 | She dropped them on the chopping-board and crushed them under the blade of her knife . |
| 21 | She flicked through a wad of bills without counting , then dropped them into the case and closed the lid . |
| 22 | Trent passed it up along with his weightbelt , slipped off his flippers and mask , dropped them over the taffrail and pulled himself into the cockpit . |
| 23 | And he cried do you think she would need a worm and he held up a worm , but he came and put this poisoned worm in the mole , you know that 's what they did , they had er mole er worms that had doped with poison , you see and then they dropped them in the hole and that was the end of the mole . |
| 24 | The Crown claims that Gallen picked up the bombers in Donegal , drove them to the yard and returned an hour later to pick them up . |
| 25 | He drove them to the station and they returned , sad for their sister and still not convinced that it was better for her not to come home . |
| 26 | The Private Secretary — Michael Marsden , he remembered with an effort — signalled them from the door and McLeish moved forward , keen to see what the kingpin of this row of skittles looked like . |
| 27 | and no matter and one day we we did a rugby scrum and we rammed them out the way and they went flying . |
| 28 | Instead , he was leaning forward , peering through the glass that separated them from the chauffeur and glaring furiously at the car in front of them . |
| 29 | I met with the station officers at St Anne 's Head in June of this year and informed them of the way that divers should be operating . |
| 30 | He smelt of good-quality eau de toilette , his grasp firm as he shook them by the hand and strode ahead , waving the nanny and his young son towards the sitting-room . |