Example sentences of "[vb pp] them [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Lords has concluded that our Sunday trading laws are unclear and has therefore referred them to the European Court of Justice to clarify whether they are compatible with European law . |
| 2 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 3 | Soon she had formed them into a big circle , like this : — |
| 4 | ‘ In this case it 's because they believe you 've tricked them over the supposed disappearance of Clarion Call . |
| 5 | These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat . |
| 6 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |
| 7 | The Macedonian royal house was deeply involved with Persia : Gygaia , the sister of Alexander I , was given in marriage to a Persian called Boubares , and they lived off the revenues of a Phrygian city given them by the Persian king ( Hdt. viii . |
| 8 | It is also probable that the many forest tribes who were familiar with orang-utans simply regarded them as a different-looking lot of wild people . |
| 9 | The drawings were purchased by the museum from William Proby , whose family had owned them from an early date , for £310,000 with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund , the National Art Collections Fund and other benefactors . |
| 10 | The families along the river were closely related and inter-marriage had fused them into a larger unit . |
| 11 | What magic did these brothers possess that had catapulted them into the rarefied atmosphere of the multi-billionaires . |
| 12 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 13 | But perhaps he could not have attracted them to The Other Story . |
| 14 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 15 | Every officer must have noticed the figurines , yet no-one had considered them as a possible murder weapon . |
| 16 | The devil had booked them into the same room . |
| 17 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 18 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 19 | Their habits have probably always been similar , and if survival is to be taken as a measure of success , their conservative way of life has ensured them of a leading place in the evolutionary marathon . |
| 20 | Some have seen them as a fine declaration of faith , but they are not . |
| 21 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 22 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 23 | Well say hello to them for us cos we have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 24 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 25 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 26 | For Liverpool , this season 's troubles have seen them in an unfamiliar battle to avoid being sucked into the relegation fight but Souness admitted : ‘ It was a good game for us to win . |
| 27 | By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly . |
| 28 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 29 | My cousins , & his wife , , sailed from Victoria , via Vancouver to spend a day with us in Seattle ( we had already met them at an all-family-reunion wedding in Cheltenham in August . ) . |
| 30 | Having decided to show all the four seasons in one picture ( as opposed to other occasions when I have made them as a matching set of four separate pictures ) , I had to find a mount that would blend well with all the seasons and colours , so chose an earthy brown . |