Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their first game the Transvaal beat them by fifty runs . |
| 2 | The girl held them in approved BHS fashion . |
| 3 | But the Australians imported them in large numbers . |
| 4 | Simon the Trapper led them by devious paths to the lakeside hut . |
| 5 | Strains developed over the migration of the ‘ vyezzhye belye Kalmyki ’ to Russian territory , since the prince of the Teleuts regarded them as traitorous subjects and demanded their return . |
| 6 | Perhaps the Minoans regarded them as fearful intermediaries — essential but frightening go-betweens . |
| 7 | Deaf people did not escape their share of war-time tragedy and hardship , but the war benefited them in one very important respect . |
| 8 | The name of the plant describes its historical use by the ladies of Venice who used the plant in the belief that its property of dilating the pupil of the eye converted them into lustrous wide-eyed beauties . |
| 9 | The factor showed them with fussy gestures where to set it . |
| 10 | The count led them through one of the doors into what was a very beautiful drawing-room and almost immediately a servant came in with refreshments . |
| 11 | She says that they were desperate for food , and the pike fed them for two days . |
| 12 | Those words were capable of constituting a resignation and the manager interpreted them as such . |
| 13 | The inspector viewed them with cool distaste . |
| 14 | Ordinary citizens tolerated corruption when times were good and when the government rewarded them with cheap food , services and petrol . |
| 15 | Many more women sought separations after the passing of the 1886 Act , which allowed them to do so on grounds of the husband 's unwillingness or inability to maintain , although in practice the legislation provided them with little material assistance . |
| 16 | I 'd like to know how the fox persuaded them to that . ’ |
| 17 | The ferrymaster regaled them with spicy stories about the comings and goings of King Alexander . |
| 18 | ‘ The system invested them with this responsibility and there is no room for errors or excuses . |
| 19 | The swan eyed them with royal disgust . |
| 20 | It cost him his papers , the Czechs bounced them in 1981 while Dr. Tomlin was visiting fellow academics in Oxford . |