Example sentences of "had [vb pp] them [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon she had formed them into a big circle , like this : — |
| 2 | The families along the river were closely related and inter-marriage had fused them into a larger unit . |
| 3 | Irritated with herself for reminding him , Julia turned back to face the front and said nothing more until Bill had dropped them outside a big yellow house on the edge of Fiesole . |
| 4 | Every officer must have noticed the figurines , yet no-one had considered them as a possible murder weapon . |
| 5 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
| 6 | They behaved as though the European exchange rate mechanism had equipped them with a monetary policy and had left no point in discussing the subject further . |
| 7 | A mere two hundred miles from Washington had brought them into a different season although it was obviously the first hint of real autumn in New York : around them others were hurrying because they were too thinly dressed or tugging at coats and gloves that were unfamiliar and awkward after half a year at the back of the closet . |
| 8 | Their one real clue from the Executive killings had led them to a small Ping Tiao cell in the Mids fifty li south of Bremen . |
| 9 | They had converted them into a fine house , which had been requisitioned by the Germans : the officer in charge was a Captain Foghel who , by the time we were taken to Tabiano , had already been transferred to Bologna . |
| 10 | Perhaps she had scarcely heard them , or had taken them as a mere mechanical rejoinder to her own ‘ Do n't hate me ’ . |
| 11 | They had indulged them with a capricious dominion , sometimes over the one , sometimes over the other object of desire . |