Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] them [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the lure of the big stores , though clothing coupons and shortage of money made them a feast for the eye only . |
| 2 | Sussex , though , are unlikely to be among the cynical chorus , not after their slip-up against the Minor Counties on a Marlow marsh made them the 14th first-class county in 55– or 6–overs play to have their colours lowered by junior opposition . |
| 3 | In the meantime , however , those long horns had become undesirable : drovers and slaughterers found them a nuisance and they compounded the drawbacks that had already become apparent in Bakewell 's breed . |
| 4 | But in the 1950s , with the first wave of postwar affluence , young people in transition began to have money and the adman found them a place in the consumer society . |
| 5 | A lucky win against Aurillac in the play-offs secured them a place among the last 32 . |
| 6 | Macnab showed them a postcard , sent to him by Joyce from Berlin a few days before . |
| 7 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 8 | Against Fareham the juniors trailed 2-1 at half-time , but a change of tactics brought them a 6-2 win . |
| 9 | Bernice gave them an encouraging smile , which they returned weakly , and detached herself from their embrace with one last squeeze and one last pat on the shoulder . |
| 10 | They claimed that drinking the tea gave them an intense , trip-like experience . |
| 11 | Controlling his own forces required more subtle tactics , for they could not be dismissed as " anti-Spain " and their part in his victory and elevation gave them a claim on his gratitude and on how post-war Spain would be shaped . |
| 12 | The pose of the bald egg-shaped heads , the jointed arms stiffly flexed in a parody of benediction , the staring eyes and curved arrow-like lips gave them the hieratic look of a couple of painted deities . |
| 13 | So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards . |
| 14 | But working-class discontent was fierce and the ability of the industrial proletariat to paralyse large plants and even whole areas by strike action gave them an immediate power of disruption which the peasantry lacked . |
| 15 | That is why , when the French economy was screaming for lower interest rates , President Mitterrand increased them the other day . |
| 16 | Frankie gave them a wide berth . |
| 17 | When asked which of all their various roles gave them the greatest satisfaction , 47% opted for being a mother , 22% simply being themselves , 15% being a partner/lover and just 10% being a working woman . |
| 18 | However , other chip makers , in producing work-alike processors , decided that more speed gave them a selling point over Intels , and thus 20 and 25MHz 286 chips became common , as did 25 , 33 , and 40MHz 386 units . |
| 19 | City had not won a League game at Portman Road for 30 years , and had not scored in their last seven visits , but the jinx looked to have come to an end when Gary Flitcroft 's first senior goal for the club gave them a 37th minute lead . |
| 20 | Rex gave them a shake . |
| 21 | Housewifely talk suited them no better . |
| 22 | After a short time the Duke of Grafton sold them the Rope Walk , a building where the old village craft had been carried out and where Ted Smith 's coach garage is now , and so they moved . |
| 23 | One of the men was nervous , so the guard asked them the number of the car they were driving . |
| 24 | My wide feet found them a bit tight , but I swapped the footbeds for the Sanmarco ones , which are much thinner , and both pairs then fitted me better — a leaf taken from Merrell 's book . |
| 25 | ( Peru : the very name arose from a misunderstanding on the part of the Spaniards when Indians told them the name of a river : originally , it was known simply as ‘ New Castille ’ . ) |
| 26 | Li Yuan studied them a moment , trying to get the key to their relationship — something more than could be gained from the summaries in the file — then returned to the desk and sat , leaving them standing . |
| 27 | Granny paid them no heed . |
| 28 | Elsewhere , the main instrument for this capture of control by the notables — an English diplomat called them the gentry — was the election of Juntas . |
| 29 | The pretence that statutes merely declared existing law was dropped ; they occupied areas of national life which before they had only occasionally entered ; they became far more precisely drafted and the judges interpreted them a good deal less freely ; they were , by the reign of Elizabeth , the outcome of a definite and recognized procedure . |
| 30 | They would be more than willing to move as long as Leeds council offered them a suitable alternative with security of tenure ( this in effect means building them a brand new stadium from scratch ) . |