Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They combined erm the four hundred and fifty odd erm four hundred and seventeen sorry patients in er several M R C studies and looked at them from the point of view of erm prognostic markers for occurrence and they came up with two factors which overridingly were more important than the others . |
| 5 | DeVore met those eyes and saw through them to the emptiness beyond . |
| 6 | I have sat around tables with senior male television executives and listened to them on the one hand bemoan the lack of good women presenters and on the other make suggestions of possible women candidates so inappropriate as to be laughable . |
| 7 | The wounded cow , however , dashed frantically towards the jungle along with the other terrified animals of the herd and disappeared with them into the shade . |
| 8 | Even Nicandra 's little dog , Nettie , checked any exuberance and hesitated behind them to the door of the morning room . |
| 9 | In the afternoon Bathsheba called her workers together , and spoke to them in the old hall of the farmhouse . |
| 10 | Instead he was still with the group when Jesus came and stood with them in the upper room ; he was still there , crucially , when Christ questioned him searchingly . |