Example sentences of "it [vb past] them [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It did not , however , initiate the longer-term processes discussed above , although it affected them in different ways — contributing to the globalization of liberal political ideas and economic policies , posing new challenges to the European integration process as the East European states seek to participate therein , and stimulating the process of fragmentation .
2 It lead them to this house on Magdalen Road in Oxford … where law graduate Georgia Griffiths was living with her sister and two other girls .
3 In the 1960s , the Soviet Union rapidly discovered that its connection with Cuba led to the complication and distortion of its relations with other Latin American nations at the same time as it presented them with new opportunities in the region .
4 The eighteenth-century Château de Remaisnil is magnificent by any standards ; it was by far the grandest home the Ashleys had yet lived in and it presented them with numerous challenges of a personal and artistic nature , not least of which was learning to speak French .
5 To blind a lamb or blind an eagle ; all the same to them if it left them with defenceless prey to kill .
6 It stood them in good stead again in 1976 when drought caused many villages to be supplied with stand pipes .
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