Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doctor was walking with them towards the private rooms . |
| 2 | These planks he marked A , B , C , etc. , and all the man had to do was to sight along them in the proper order and he could not help getting the line right . |
| 3 | Theoretically one can have the best materials taught by the best teachers , but although a number of films have been made , and probably will continue to be made , they have not had the success that was expected of them in the fifties . |
| 4 | Although the survey vessel was now travelling at a speed faster than light , its occupants experienced no sense of progress other than that which was fed to them through the navigational telemetry . |
| 5 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 6 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 7 | The appeal was made to them in the early 1970s to offer their home to ‘ special needs ’ children and they responded well , Now they are being asked to accept both the challenge of ‘ special needs ’ children and the possibility of continuing contact with members of the original family . |
| 8 | Secondly , the hon. Gentleman asked for a change of policy that would ensure that , before people were discharged from long-stay hospitals , proper provision was made for them in the community . |
| 9 | The fourth matter upon which the appellants rely , and this is a matter of considerable importance , is that they claim to have been misled by the solicitor who was acting for them during the course of 1991 and particularly in respect of these committal proceedings . |
| 10 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 11 | The Bristol Mail was heading towards them at the piteously slow speed of a horse and cart , urged forward by a sleep-weary teenage post-boy . |
| 12 | In the following year they staged a number of occupations of churches , but even that avenue of protest was closed to them in the end , because it became too dangerous . |
| 13 | The gardener was waiting for them at the front door . |
| 14 | For an hour the guests sat patiently listening ; then everybody got up and , with the air of people who have been thinking of little else for some time , demolished the langoor ( free food ) which was waiting for them at the rear of the house . |
| 15 | To Sophie 's and Helen 's surprise , Ian Woodall , looking anxious and drawn , was waiting for them at the hospital . |
| 16 | Hurley was waiting for them on the tarmac near the terminal in his big blue BMW 520i . |
| 17 | I caught up with them about 3.30pm in Jackson Bridge where they were finishing a hymn , and possibly a silent prayer , before they marched back up the steep winding hill to Hepworth where a free tea was waiting for them in the school . |
| 18 | They went downstairs and the old lady was waiting for them in the hall . |
| 19 | ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ was borne to them from the enemy lines , time and again — into the land between the opposing armies , through their own lines , and away into the darkness . |
| 20 | The front door slammed distantly , the Aston Martin 's tyres scattered the gravel noisily on the drive , and still she stood there , torn inside , unmoving , until Charles came to see if she was coming with them to the hospital to visit Lucy . |
| 21 | In November 1294 a tenth was demanded of them in the shires , a sixth in the boroughs ; in December 1295 an eleventh and a seventh were sought ; a year later , in December 1296 , a twelfth and an eighth ; in July 1297 an eighth and a fifth , although this grant was not in fact raised . |
| 22 | Even the heavily fortified town of Berwick-upon-Tweed , on the Scottish bank of the river , was wrested from them by the English over and over again , and finally lost . |
| 23 | So Rachel at six years and Margaret at five years were left in England after our second furlough , and generous help was provided for them by the organiser of a preparatory school . |
| 24 | The family who had owned and operated the mill continued to live in the imposing nearby mill house , but were unable to fund a restoration of the redundant mill , so that when a Repairs Notice was served on them by the local authority , they were obliged to sell the building . |
| 25 | The last time it was asked about them by The Times , the best that it could do was to put up a research assistant to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) to answer . |
| 26 | The famous Tiller discretion was instilled into them at the same time as their routines and with equal thoroughness . |
| 27 | Whatever was creeping towards them through the half-open door would have them completely at its mercy . |
| 28 | Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said : |
| 29 | The Canadian dissenters also said that information was withheld from them during the investigation . |
| 30 | As McKerrow put it : " much of what we strive to find out was not and could not be known to those of the period which we study , for it was veiled from them by the life of everyday . " |