Example sentences of "[vb past] them [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |
| 2 | Next he led the spinnaker sheets aft to the cockpit and made them fast to the stern cleats with plenty of slack . |
| 3 | There was no famine and for most urban residents conditions of life improved during the 1920s — 1930s , but cities were by no means the havens of wealth and prosperity that hostile or covetous agricultural ideologues made them out to be . |
| 4 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
| 5 | Mrs Hollidaye took off her leather gloves and laid them neatly on top of her handbag on the pew beside her , straightened her hat and unhooked a cushion which hung from a brass hook beneath the shelf . |
| 6 | Counting out seven pound notes , he laid them carefully on the table . |
| 7 | Very slowly she took the headphones off and laid them carefully on the table , her eyes never leaving Luke 's for a moment . |
| 8 | One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ . |
| 9 | He laid them out on Stephen 's desk and did his best to smooth them flat . |
| 10 | He laid them out on the desk , got a plastic bag out of the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet and swept all the bits and pieces into it . |
| 11 | That 's what they did to people after they had died , they laid them out in a bed . |
| 12 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 13 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 14 | And she cut a dozen and a half splendid blooms and laid them reverently in Sally-Anne 's trug . |
| 15 | But he put up no defence ; he simply raised his hands and laid them lightly on Gentle 's shoulders . |
| 16 | I met them leeward of the middle vehicle , where they lent a hand to tip the wheelbarrow into a stable position . |
| 17 | We met them afterwards on stage . |
| 18 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
| 19 | The captain of the guard led them on to the scaffold , a scrawny-faced clerk gabbled out the sentence of the court . |
| 20 | Nicholson led them through to another solid steel gate . |
| 21 | She led them slowly through the graveyard to the burial site . |
| 22 | Our Georgia guests used the small flat-bottomed craft to go bonefishing one afternoon , and Thessy , well trained by his father , led them unerringly to a sea-flat by a mangrove swamp where , in just a few heart-racing moments , they landed four of the gleaming and elusive fish . |
| 23 | Everyone sang out loudly and then the young man led them straight into ‘ After the Ball is Over ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Nice to meet you , Chief Inspector , ’ he said with automatic politeness , then considered what he had just said , decided it was beyond explanation and led them upstairs to his office . |
| 25 | Ferryman led them over to Jackie 's cot . |
| 26 | The sentries had been primed to admit him without challenge , Alexei noted , and as soon as his escort had dismounted a trooper wearing the gorget of a provost came out of the gatehouse and led them away towards the stables . |
| 27 | She crossed to the doorway and led them away from the shed . |
| 28 | He eventually managed to assemble about 170 of his foot , all that had survived , and some 450 horsemen , and led them southwards towards Coldstream , by what was long remembered as Johnny Cope 's road' , and thence next day to Berwick . |
| 29 | They were ready now , and he led them back to the Saloon . |
| 30 | But even before the trustees commenced their search , the looming rudderlessness of their ship led them back to none other than Mr Brettell himself . |