Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd left them in the caravan , and he just see the keys |
| 2 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 3 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 4 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 5 | She had seen them around the hotel for the last five days . |
| 6 | By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly . |
| 7 | She hardly dared to draw the curtains to show herself to the other girls , though she had warned them of the horrid sight in store for them . |
| 8 | So she had placed them on the mantel with the vase and the dragon plates , and Gerry had promised her two more , next time he docked in Cape Town . |
| 9 | Rose , with the same tact as she had brought them to the house , was careful to absent herself from these occasions as much as possible . |
| 10 | She was quite sure she had surprised them in the act of carrying out the next stage of the deception concerning the Jourdain-Durance paintings . |
| 11 | He was watching Charles closely , as if afraid that he would not be believed , when he came to describe the meeting with Maureen O'Duffy and what she had told them during the drive down the mountain . |
| 12 | Once she had taken them to the cinema and Oliver had been sick with excitement and ice-cream . |