Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] them [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the view of the government , discussing such matters in print made resolving them harder . |
| 2 | But Humphreys , who was not legally represented , said the warnings about the chemicals had been sent by fax to a 17year-old trainee at his office who failed to pass them on . |
| 3 | Absentees and truants welcomed quietly back to school and efforts made to re-integrate them socially and academically . |
| 4 | We saw so many of these bomber boys pass before us — we got to know them slightly and then they were gone . |
| 5 | ‘ Those people just had something special and we got to know them well , ’ Andrew said . |
| 6 | He got to know them well : years later when they appeared suddenly he could remember who they were . |
| 7 | I played everywhere , and because we , in the Music School , were taught by tutors in men 's colleges I got to know them well , and went in and out in defiance of the chaperone rules — which were then still in force … |
| 8 | Mrs Ford said primly , ‘ I never got to know them well in their child-bearing years . ’ |
| 9 | And er but er we got to know them eventually , but for the first few weeks , whilst we were in Devon , I think the five foreigners sort of got landed . |
| 10 | When I was a child we had two bay-coloured horses , and I later got to know them very well . |
| 11 | this turned out to be the standard stuff of innumerable intelligence reports , as Carrington got to know them better . |
| 12 | We so enjoyed having friends to stay and got to know them so much better than in London . |
| 13 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
| 14 | She ceased to savour them and tried to drive them away . |
| 15 | At a signal from Sybil , Rachel helped to coax them out of the water and into the changing-rooms where David was helping Danny to dress . |
| 16 | Perkin tried to pull them apart and got smartly knocked down by Nolan , quick and tough with his fists as with his riding . |
| 17 | I tried to pull them out but I could n't . |
| 18 | I left them in the self-induced bedlam of a Harvey Nichols changing room , and promised to meet them later at the flat to examine our spoils , then went to meet Dee . |
| 19 | He bent to pick them up and I pulled him into the alley and smashed him up against the wall . |
| 20 | Dynamius tried to lock them out of the city , but he was tricked by Gundulf . |
| 21 | Even Jimmy Savile , the man who helped bring them here , could n't keep up with them . |
| 22 | Horses rearing and neighing , as ostlers and stable-boys tried to calm them down and lead them away . |
| 23 | Uncle Alfred tried to calm them down , but they only screamed louder . |
| 24 | She was just imagining Meredith dressed up as a sailor and herself with her arms round his neck , clinging to him as the wind tried to tear them apart , when a man with a tray hung from his neck asked her to buy bootlaces . |
| 25 | As each person began to cry , a rebirther helped to calm them down . |
| 26 | In an attempt to remove the influence of the janissaries from Istanbul , where they naturally formed a powerful opposition to his reforms , Mahmud tried to buy them off by offering them a virtually free hand in garrisoning the remote provinces of the empire . |
| 27 | He tried to wipe them away on the sleeve of the plaid shirt , but it was no good . |
| 28 | But will Charles and Diana ever find happiness in the homes that helped tear them apart ? |
| 29 | One of its sons came out and tried to help them inside . |
| 30 | Alfieri watched out for his clients and tried to help them as far as his job would allow . |