Example sentences of "[vb past] them [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
| 2 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 3 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 4 | With marked reluctance , the elderly woman led them inside to a small sitting-room , which overlooked the garden at the rear of the house . |
| 5 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 6 | Early on , the Quakers were the better side and had good scoring chances even before Nick Pickering blasted them ahead with a 25-yard volley in the 16th minute . |
| 7 | But their defence could do nothing as winger Sharpe burst down the left and opened them up with a devastating cross . |
| 8 | In the second half , Swindon were again on top whilst Maclaren fired them up with a free kick . |
| 9 | Ralemberg insisted on meeting de Macon first , saying he wished to discuss some secret matter , so I joined them later in a small tavern on the corner of Vintry and La Reole . |
| 10 | And do n't forget the fellow who saved all his apple pips and crunched them up as a special treat ( apple-pip kernels , like those of plum , peach and apricot , contain tiny quantities of cyanide ) : he died . |
| 11 | He took off his spectacles and polished them thoughtfully with a red snuff-handkerchief . |
| 12 | ‘ They have the same basic EQ as a humbucker , so you can get that really crunchy sort of distortion , but we also found that when you linked them up to a Fender-style five-way switch they had this amazing ability to clean up , like a Strat , in the in-between positions . |
| 13 | He padded them out with a torn sheet from sick bay to stop them making any noise . |
| 14 | Her fingers began to move as she watched them almost in a hypnotised way . |
| 15 | It brought them out into a grassy clearing by the lake , a shallow bay with a fringe of stony beach . |
| 16 | Connie buzzed them in for a joyous greeting from Hurley , Colonel John Sasser , the Defense attaché , and one of Buck Revell 's FBI team , but there was n't much time for celebration because Hamadan was wanted elsewhere for debriefing . |
| 17 | The shimmer of tears burned brightly in her eyes , and she rubbed them away with a trembling hand . |
| 18 | Harvest onions and lay them out in a dry , sunny spot where then can finish ripening before being stored |
| 19 | Roquelaure was recognised instantly by the head waiter who took them straight to a reserved corner table . |
| 20 | ABERDEEN flirted with disaster at Kilbowie last night before two goals in the final 15 minutes from Scott Booth took them through to a Scottish Cup semi-final against Hibs at Tynecastle on 3 April . |
| 21 | The taxi took them off to a small restaurant , and with everywhere seeming crowded to full capacity Fabia guessed , when they were straight away shown to a table , that Ven must have had the forethought to book in advance . |
| 22 | He left Kathleen to strap the toes together with a gauze swab between them to maintain the alignment , and then sent them off with a few coproxamol for the pain . |
| 23 | His second-in-command re-divided the men and sent them back for a second search of the places they had searched before . |
| 24 | Urgent or not , Sladen was experienced enough to give them thirty seconds of plati-tudes while they kicked their briefcases under the table , tugged at their waistcoats — both MI6 men wore them even on a hot June day — and shuffled their papers , although few of them were prepared to put much paperwork on view . |
| 25 | On the spiritual side it was at one time also considered self-evident that the Russians , adherence to the Christian religion put them automatically on a higher plane than the heathen , raw-flesh-eating ‘ savages ’ . |
| 26 | In the Littlewoods Cup two goals by Derby 's McMinn disposed of West Bromwich Albion , and Manchester City 's misery continued when Coventry put them out with a 16th-minute goal from Regis after a Redmond error . |
| 27 | If you struggled with rollers and gave them up as a bad job about ten years ago , you 'll be surprised at the simplicity of the latest setting appliances . |
| 28 | Three of our brave friends were also dead , and we carried them home with a heavy heart . |
| 29 | The Croats drove out the Serbs from Kupres this week and , according to eye-witnesses , wished them well with a few genocidal strokes . |
| 30 | I recited the names of some relations and friends , and my mother wrote them down in a businesslike fashion until I ran out of ideas . |