Example sentences of "[vb past] them [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had kissed her with passion or some brutal demand to impose his will on her then she could have found the strength to fight him , but there was no way she could resist this aching tenderness , this joining that made them one whole . |
| 2 | An irresistible softness with an inner strength that made them million sellers . |
| 3 | But I think what , perhaps the , the best thing to do is when the transcriptions come back , and this may not be till the summer because it is a very long long process , when they come back , they will all go back to the person who made them ten people . |
| 4 | He led the People of Israel out of slavery in Egypt , led them through the Red Sea , led them forty years in the wilderness and brought them safely to Palestine , Eretz Yisroel . ’ |
| 5 | Telling them to close their bibles , she read them two stories ; one about the beginnings of life , the other a warning on the dangers of immorality . |
| 6 | Gibson sold them four trees on the estate " … all of poor value … " part at 1s. a foot and partly at 1s. 6d . |
| 7 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 8 | Asquith asked them two questions . |
| 9 | Well , I charged them six shillings and out the three of them went puffing their heads off . |
| 10 | ‘ I only charged them fifty pence so we wo n't get rich on that , but it 's probably done our reputation a lot of good . ’ |
| 11 | She said , well we had to bu we , ma made it out that we had to buy erm the whole , the whole box , it cost them fifty pounds ! |
| 12 | The Irish team was lying second to Germany following Friday 's dressage but a fall on cross country by Karen Connelly to incur 60 penalties and a refusal by Sasha Harrison which cost them 20 penalties sent them out of the reckoning . |
| 13 | Murphy and Taggart led for much of the way but missed out a loop section of the route which cost them 30 marks and they dropped back . |
| 14 | " I told them three days before we can finish repairs , " he told us , " but we can do enough tomorrow to hold us to Banda , if weather is good . " |
| 15 | The hospital 's fifteenth-century chapel houses a small collection of works by Hans Memling : exquisite , jewel-like portraits and interpretations of biblical scenes and Christian legends , as vivid as when he painted them 500 years ago . |
| 16 | The owners of Rowlands Agricultural Contractors says Lord Beaverbrook employed them three months ago , and a bill for four hundred pounds is still unpaid . |
| 17 | In a bid to recreate the magic that brought them 27 hits , the girls have made a lavish video . |
| 18 | Joseph saw them one minute to port , then the next minute to starboard , and once they even appeared dead astern as the river turned back on itself . |
| 19 | Nick saw them one day when the door was left open , sitting with their elbows on the table and chewing their chops in their fingers . |
| 20 | I never saw them two fellers before , they 're new to me , ’ Peter told me . |
| 21 | It took them 289 days of bureaucratic proceedings , and they were forced to pay two bribes ( out of 10 solicited ) . |
| 22 | Outside , in the terrible wind and the rain , it took them fifteen minutes to get the boat ready . |
| 23 | West Indies have won only two of their last 14 matches , and then it took them six games in this season 's World Series Cup to win another . |
| 24 | Took them 26 years to win the title . |
| 25 | but Portsmouth took , took them two matches , supposed to do it extra time like . |
| 26 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
| 27 | It took them two days before they reached human habitation . |
| 28 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 29 | When ARA famine officials went from Kazan' to Simbirsk in the autumn of 1921 , it took them four days to cover 150 miles . |
| 30 | It took them five overs to score their first run and they were only saved from disaster by captain Allan Lamb . |