Example sentences of "them did " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a young man he had been pursued by many women ; that he secretly despised them did not lessen his attractiveness but in later years his large family and increasing years had hung about him with a weight as great as any deformity : but he would never risk exposing himself as Rose had . |
| 2 | He went round with some seeds , planting them in the ground and that , but some of them grew and some of them did n't . |
| 3 | ‘ Yeah , some of them did . |
| 4 | ‘ Lots of them did n't , ’ said Lee , running down the passage and into the kitchen that Philip had been in yesterday morning where Mrs Wright had given him a cup of tea . |
| 5 | Most of them did . |
| 6 | I do not think that a single critic noticed that it was any different from the customary ‘ rum-te-tum ’ , but if one of them did he evidently did n't think it was worth a comment . |
| 7 | It cost very little , after all , to demand to be heard , to involve themselves in European negotiations , as all of them did , to capitalize — as James V did with supreme ability — on the problems of popes and European kings . |
| 8 | Some of them did not flower too well in confined conditions and others , like the Double Yellow , proved intolerant of London 's smoke . |
| 9 | Only as the car approached them did Ludens think he glimpsed a figure standing in the shade under a tree . |
| 10 | Most of them did not differ greatly from most other grammar schools , which also ( of course ) enrolled fee-payers . |
| 11 | Most of them did not escape from wartime secrecy and were not properly developed until the war was over . |
| 12 | Time and again women failed to find the words in which to frame their questions , knowing only that the language available to them did not fit . |
| 13 | Many of them did n't make it . |
| 14 | At none of them did I seem to do well . |
| 15 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |
| 16 | ‘ Do you know what a vestry is , children ? ’ asked a friend of mine , probably hoping that none of them did . |
| 17 | After parents agreed to use the exchange ( and not all of them did agree ) , they were summoned with their child to an interview by a selection of the members of the local JAC , which had a list of vacancies , and the young person was sent to one of these . |
| 18 | Licensees would offer you drink after drink if you wanted — lot of them did . |
| 19 | For neither of them did the medication appear to have been helpful and , in collaboration with their general practitioner , it was therefore stopped . |
| 20 | Six of them did a routine on top of a tank , and did not stop even when the snow began to fall . |
| 21 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 22 | The only difference was that he trained more winners than most of them did . |
| 23 | The boots staggered sideways with the impact , but the man inside them did n't fall . |
| 24 | Thought you were selling bibles , some of them did . ’ |
| 25 | Sadly many of them did not show quite the high standard of dress they expect of their pupils . |
| 26 | It seemed highly unlikely that they were the same animals , and the verbal description of them did not fit that of the two rehomed dogs . |
| 27 | But remember I 'm a writer , and there 's a lot of difference between what I did in the '70s and what so many of them did . ’ |
| 28 | Some of them did n't read music or tablature and they just needed chord symbols and little expressions that made sense to them . |
| 29 | I have never known which of them did the catering . |
| 30 | While the nursing staff had been keenly following the implementation of the ENP , some of them did not seem to be familiar with my parameters of practice — I sometimes missed patients that I could have treated because they were not being filtered through to me . |