Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a mere three weeks the Smolensk Party authorities also required all uezd executive committees to collate , check , and comment to them on the minutes of every single peasant meeting on mutual aid . |
| 2 | We went in to the University and met up with Ian Jamieson , who invited us to come and stay with them for a few days . |
| 3 | When Rodie heard of what happened , she went up to Sam 's room and comforted him enough to bring him downstairs and sit with them on the terrace . |
| 4 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 5 | But as usual I affected a supreme unconcern , and floated past them with a sway of the hips that was a touch exaggerated . |
| 6 | In order to see things as the Trobrianders saw them , he joined their communities , learned their language , and lived among them as a member , noting and recording his observations in preparation for writing about them later : |
| 7 | Children may enjoy spreading out a large selection of junk materials on the floor , and exploring and experimenting with them with the teacher 's active participation and help . |
| 8 | He growled and gibbered at them like a witch-hare and those nearest to him fell back in fear . |
| 9 | Will my hon. Friend the Minister bear it in mind that many of the frauds that have come to the attention of our regulating authorities were first discovered and reported to them by the American SEC ? |
| 10 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 11 | She is on excellent terms with all the regular guests , and looks after them in a way which is almost maternal . |
| 12 | and trading with them as a happier and satisfied customer . |
| 13 | ‘ For cutting animals up and disposing of them in a public place . ’ |
| 14 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 15 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |
| 16 | Mother and daughter were glad of each other 's company then , while the electric storm boomed and crashed around them in the black night , as if aiming for this one exposed place . |
| 17 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
| 18 | As they stepped out from behind the tree , a figure , walking rapidly and glancing back over his shoulder , stepped off the pavement a few yards up and came at them on a collision course . |
| 19 | With a hiss , the double-sided door began to close , just as the figure of Mahon turned the corner and came after them at a terrifying speed . |
| 20 | They called to him twice before he heard , and then he started and came after them at a rapid walk , like a man driven by some urgent pain he could not slough off . |
| 21 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
| 22 | The trick is to try and look beyond them to the interviewer and talk as though the two of you are having a personal conversation . |
| 23 | Listen for them on radio and television and look for them in the newspaper . |
| 24 | 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes . |
| 25 | It 's better to walk b back , and look at them for a d you know , from afar , than |
| 26 | It is difficult to assess exactly what all these developments mean individually , but when you step back and look at them as a whole trend , the implications become clear . |
| 27 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
| 28 | When parents relate to their children as if they were partners and look to them for the support and even sexual comfort that should come from other adults , the boundary surrounding and protecting childhood is broken . |
| 29 | During the summer months hordes of visitors regularly congregate there to eat and drink at their leisure on the paved terrace between the mellow sandstone walls of the inn itself and the river 's edge , where many sit on the low stone parapet and look below them through the clear , greenish water at the mottled dark-brown and silvery backs of the carp that rise to the surface to snap up the crisps and the crusts thrown down to them . |
| 30 | ‘ KENDAL : Printed and Published , by R. Lough and Co. and Sold by them at the Chronicle Office , Finkle Street : also by J. Richardson , 91 , Royal Exchange , London ; Constable , Edinburgh ; Smith , Liverpool ; Messrs. I. Clark , and Co . |