Example sentences of "[vb past] them [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yet if Mosley came to see Lloyd George as a fellow economic radical , objections to the management of Irish policy divided them in the early 1920s . |
| 3 | My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj . |
| 4 | Our canvas stretcher-beds were quickly drenched with blood , because we used them for the worst wounded — the others had to be laid on the tiled floor . |
| 5 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Only when the other girls exchanged confidences about their parents and sometimes lambasted them with the particular competitive cruelty adolescents are prone to , did Katherine retreat into silence . |
| 8 | That is the same price Leeds council paid them in the mid 1980 's and about £2.5m less than the local authority are looking for now . |
| 9 | Three more hours of paddling and bailing , bailing and paddling , brought them to the second expected rendezvous , but in the great troughs and high seas the submarine lookouts could miss the torch signal or RG beam from a 16-foot ( 5m ) canoe . |
| 10 | He was not looking forward to the events which he knew lay ahead of him that morning , but he dismissed all such thoughts from his mind : pleasant and unpleasant , most tasks were equal to him now : he viewed them with the same cold dispassion — so many tasks in each day , so many days in each week , so many weeks in each year . |
| 11 | So I included lots of my old yoga positions in the routine and combined them with the small isometric movements for maximum impact on the muscles . |
| 12 | Then , arranging the largest red roses at equally spaced intervals around the circle , I balanced them with the large single pink roses — it is always important to introduce both light and shade into a design , otherwise it can look very dull . |
| 13 | He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio . |
| 14 | The girl , thin-faced and undernourished , watched with complete indifference as Jessica then took them to the parapet and scattered them onto the turbulent black surface of the river , where they swirled beautifully , made changing patterns as they swept between the steep stone walls . |
| 15 | On Junction Buttress , Malc Taylor put All my Pegs in one Basket and then left them in the obvious overhanging crack , which is now E7 6c . |
| 16 | Plumping up the pillows , she set them against the padded headrest and left , closing the door behind her . |