Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] them [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The third John Booth provided much of the capital for his partners , Samuel and Aaron Walker , when they established the business that eventually made them the leading ironmasters in the North of England .
2 Although in fact ultra vires , taxing many men worth less than £2 on goods must have been considered justified by circumstances , for their numbers alone made them an important element in the local community .
3 Just drew them a whacking great circle round it and
4 Well I do n't think we owe it to them we just delivered them a nice big salary and they 've got more than enough work to do .
5 So I just gave them the statutory amount per tape
6 The easiest part of the scheme was the raising of the six companies of 70–110 men each , increased in 1739 to ten , and as a concession to national sentiment the new units were allowed to wear the kilt ; its dark tartan , of blue , green and black , soon gave them a distinctive name : the Black Watch .
7 And the same thing with Zeppelin — no-one ever called them a heavy metal band .
8 ‘ I liked your family very much , but you deliberately gave them the wrong impression about me , ’ she said angrily .
9 The Dzhungar khanate , established in 1635 , also influenced them a great deal .
10 It also gave them an additional incentive in their efforts to keep the peace between Plantagenets and Capetians , for they stood to lose lands and revenues through confiscation in time of war .
11 This not only altered the strategic military balance in favour of the rebels , it also gave them an important psychological boost .
12 The champagne reception — at which Kylie began to demonstrate for the first time a new found confidence with both press and public — also gave them the perfect opportunity to milk their golden child 's latest achievement , three UK gold discs for ‘ Kylie ’ the LP , and the singles ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ and ‘ Got To Be Certain ’ .
13 These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater .
14 I abruptly asked them the same question I had of Benjamin .
15 For working-class girls ( unlike middle-class girls , for whom comprehensives potentially offered them the academic education denied to many under the systems of 11 + weighting ) comprehensives probably made little difference .
16 I said oh you cunt , said I 'm your troop you ca n't me go in there , he says try me , I said bastard so I fucking right sea , fucking over the right you can come out now , marched back out again gave them a right old on the way back again , get changed again , alright , I thought you cunt
17 In his absence , I afterwards asked them the same questions , and they were able to explain quite adequately .
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