Example sentences of "them came " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice . |
| 2 | One of them came in , looked at the rubber gear and said , cor , I do n't know about this any more , this is all a bit too weird for me . |
| 3 | They remember also that the Dominions came voluntarily to our aid in the two world wars : we would be in honour bound to do likewise if any of them came under threat . |
| 4 | He often invited the girls back to his house , but most of them came only once . |
| 5 | Their guns were on the table by their hands , out of Tug 's reach , and from both of them came a feeling of expectant tension . |
| 6 | Some of them came to Kufra , and a deputation of Zuwaya went out to meet them in the desert , inviting them to turn back . |
| 7 | We all waited outside in St Martin 's Lane for 55 minutes , and to my surprise about 99 per cent of them came back in for the finish . ’ |
| 8 | Most of them came apart like butterflies in a whirlwind and were dispersed ; some struggled for infinite moments , trying to summon up enough reserves of strength to achieve reality , before they were spent . |
| 9 | Although women were proportionately less successful than men in being elected ( 24% of them came first as against 35% of men ) , 1990 resumed the upward trend in female participation in local elections which had been so strangely set back in 1988 . |
| 10 | A few yards behind them came two of the gardeners and the young detective on duty at the nursery that morning . |
| 11 | When the children of Israel were camped in Moab near Jericho , many of them came to worship the local god , Bael-Poor , and there was some mixing with the Moabites . |
| 12 | Two of them came in the third round . |
| 13 | One of them came up behind him and hooked an arm around his throat while another snatched the whip from his hand . |
| 14 | It seems a couple of them came out here a time or two , asked a few questions , shrugged their shoulders and took themselves off . ’ |
| 15 | So when I got there , it 's the swimming coach there and a uniformed inspector and a particular individual who came from Cambridge University ( quite a few of them came into the force at that time — in 1932 ) . |
| 16 | I am sure the Servite fathers had given their consent for this , although not one of them came themselves . |
| 17 | One of them came to see me last night when I got back from Paris . |
| 18 | There might be a third person wiser than either who is living happily and fruitfully in Bali , and remembers that both of them came with unrealistic expectations . |
| 19 | Beneath them came the cearls ( churls ) the heads of substantial rural households , many of whom were free . |
| 20 | Below them came the jurisdiction of the thegns , apparently already organised by the early eleventh century in the districts that , as Norman lordships , were to form the later rapes . |
| 21 | With them came a small retinue of mainland filing clerks , bodyguards , etc. for whom well-furnished houses and flats were also purchased . |
| 22 | Behind them came two of the Sheikh 's men and a Pakistani male nurse . |
| 23 | From the kitchen behind them came the sound of Mrs Brissett cleaning up vigorously and singing ‘ The Holly and the Ivy ’ . |
| 24 | Hot , bitter tears rolled down her cheeks , and with them came back the noise of the street . |
| 25 | One of them came to see Right Said Fred in Los Angeles and there was lighthearted talk of a collaboration . |
| 26 | On a battlefield , she robbed a dead general of a leatherbound book grasped so tightly in his frozen fingers that two of them came away with it . |
| 27 | Three quarters of them came from three major US cities and 95% were gay men . |
| 28 | The general occupational picture of black sportsmen 's parents is consistent with the rest of the first generation Caribbeans in the UK and as nearly all of them came from the West Indies ( mostly from Jamaica , but others from Dominica , Antigua , St Kitts , St Lucia , Montserrat and Guyana and fewer still from Trinidad , Nevis and Barbados and a small number from West Africa ) this is not unusual . |
| 29 | He could have sat down with only one of them and achieved the same guidance on weight and machining capability , but three of them came to the meeting , which he thought typical of engineers . |
| 30 | Most of them came fro Blundell 's School and Castle Cary CC in Somerset , and they were styled the Devon & Somerset County Wanderers . |