Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Leistritz took them in — he got paid , naturally . |
| 2 | ANOTHER disjointed performance by Glasgow High-Kelvinside at Old Anniesland saw them slip further into the relegation area . |
| 3 | ‘ That old Plumpton has them in the baths — an hour , private-like , once a week . ’ |
| 4 | Lowly Nottingham took them to task … and took them apart … 26-14 . |
| 5 | So 28-year-old Neil had them removed and now has a false set after losing the rest while playing sport . |
| 6 | In so far as the anchoress is seeking Christ lost in the soul , she is like the disciples in the boat on the sea of Galilee lost in the storm ( Matthew 13:44 ) who woke the sleeping Jesus to save them from destruction : But underlying the cry of the anchoress is the constant calling of God which alone enables her cry : " oure lord and all whilk wilen herken to hym ( 50.323a. – 122 ) . |
| 7 | A fast trip through central London whisked them past the main tourist attractions and out to the suburbs to the International Training College where they were to stay . |
| 8 | He would have liked to have stayed and pried further , but he had a list of figures to telex up to New York , and as usual Stephen wanted them instantly . |
| 9 | The Buddhist-managed Lakrivikirana divided them into two categories . |
| 10 | The West 's manifest unwillingness to use force against the Bosnian Serbs to get them to accept this plan has contributed to the latest rejection that the plan has suffered , the resounding No delivered by more than nine out of ten Bosnian Serb voters in last weekend 's referendum . |
| 11 | Swan seemed unwilling to fly very close to these creatures from another world , and this made it impossible for Little Billy to see them clearly . |
| 12 | A patrolling MTB picked them up , and Bob Smith later launched the battered canoe to paddle her across the harbour to the submarine base . |
| 13 | When he admitted his offence to the SFA , poor Willie told them he had taken the drug to alleviate hay fever . |
| 14 | A brightly polished black Citron followed them in and drew up beside Duclos ' horse . |
| 15 | Then they led the Portuguese 3-0 at half-time until the great Eusebio galvanised them into action . |
| 16 | It was then that Fat Watt regarded them most sullenly as though their nearness was a threat . |
| 17 | Fat Watt watched them go with a satisfied air . |
| 18 | Fat Watt called them rascals . |
| 19 | As Wood and Wood argue , the sympathy of the classicists for the social class represented by the Socratics of classical Greece made them ‘ more than ready to accept rather uncritically their account of the situation in Athens and throughout the Greek world ’ . |
| 20 | After 1760 bulls were brought in from England , the Netherlands and southern Scotland to improve them and some farmers began to specialise in certain colours or coat patterns . |
| 21 | COLWYN BAY 'S BJ Welsh Knockout Cup campaign ended in disaster when unfancied Pontblyddyn sent them crashing out with a seven-wicket blasting . |
| 22 | Yet the bowlers defended well , and only Richardson mastered them so that the closing overs were tense . |
| 23 | If war in Europe seems likely , trucks carrying four missiles each will emerge from their bunkers and disperse around southern Britain to protect them from attack . |
| 24 | The dip-shit little bastards deserve the fucking Micks turning them into mince ; saw the inside of an armoured car once ; been blown to buggery ; thrown a hundred feet into the air and then rolled all the way down a hill ; we took turns looking inside just to prove we were real men ; looked like the inside of a fucking slaughter-house … ’ |
| 25 | Before X had the chance to formulate her answer the spectre of the dark red Seneca disturbed them once again . |
| 26 | The circle consisted of Bob Ivie and Tony Marinello the Old Indispensables , as Dizzy Liston called them — and four examples of the species that Diane had quickly come to recognise as Dizzy 's Women . |
| 27 | The research has provided a basis for the future assessment of specific LEAs and the comparability of the results with a major national survey of 13 other LEAs makes them more generally applicable . |
| 28 | They were also children : ‘ boys and girls ’ , as the boyish Owen called them , ‘ fighting , bleeding and dying ’ . |
| 29 | She came to his room as soon as he turned in , and if young McCrea heard them making love , so what ? |
| 30 | The industrial revolution of the eighteenth century brought England into the ranks of major European powers , and although the English were somewhat detached from the affairs of the continent , and more concerned with imperial expansion overseas , the events of the French Revolution and the wars with Napoleonic France forced them to play an ever increasing role in Europe . |