Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] them [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |
| 2 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |
| 3 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 4 | ( Kautsky warned them that capitalism now required large international markets with a single language which , in the Habsburg domains , would best be German ; retaining Czech would lead to the economic decline of the Czech people . ) |
| 5 | Two avoidable goals gave them valid concern . |
| 6 | By-employments such as basket-making , hemp-dressing and wild-fowling gave them additional security . |
| 7 | It protected their backs , and protruding flanges gave them some cover on both sides . |
| 8 | A report by the National Council of Public Morals on The Cinema ( 1917 ) had also scrutinised the problem , entertaining a wide variety of evidence — on such matters as the educational potential of the cinema , censorship and licensing , the molestation of children in picture palaces , and a clouded discussion of what was somewhat eerily called ‘ the moral dangers of darkness ’ — as well as some monosyllabic evidence from children themselves on whether the moving pictures gave them bad dreams . |
| 9 | The members walked to the ‘ handsome restaurant erected on the very summit of the Head ’ where Mr Burt gave them all lunch . |
| 10 | ‘ The cutlets yes , certainly , since the Prince rejected them first time round , and asked for them later , ’ dredging up memories from the depths of his mind . |
| 11 | Northern Ireland 's experience in Spain and Mexico in the last two World Cups taught them that heat can pose more problems than the opposition for British-based players . |
| 12 | Peace took them all prisoner . |
| 13 | There Terauchi informed them that independence would be proclaimed . |
| 14 | Gibson sold them four trees on the estate " … all of poor value … " part at 1s. a foot and partly at 1s. 6d . |
| 15 | Then they played cards until stifled yawns and missed tricks told them that tiredness was now king . |
| 16 | The waiter brought them cool beers and before drinking Fernando reached out and clasped his hand over hers . |
| 17 | Laughing and joking , they left their bags there and made their way down to the tap room where the landlord 's wife served them huge fish pies , the crust , golden and crisp , hiding a savoury sauce which dulled the flavour of the rancid fish . |
| 18 | This created the problem that their English-style education taught them liberal principles , while the system then denied them that same liberal advancement to the higher echelons of power and social prestige . |
| 19 | It was perfectly acceptable for Minton to take Vaughan down to ‘ Marshalls ’ , as he did in December 1946 , and the following year Edie sent them both nuts , port and a Christmas log , as a result of which , Minton thanked her , ‘ English romanticism will flourish again' . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It pandered to their inflated notion of their own importance ; and the restiveness of the working class during this early phase of Russian industrialization gave them renewed hope that they had at last found a willing instrument for their revolutionary dreams . |
| 22 | And when they were espoused the King did them great honour , and gave them many noble gifts , and added to Rodrigo 's lands more than he had till then possessed : and he loved him greatly in his heart , because he saw that he was obedient to his commands , and for all that he had heard him say . |
| 23 | A penalty in the opening minutes of their game last October gave them 3 points , or perhaps it was goalkeeper , Nicky Hammond who saved the 3 points . |
| 24 | The new law of prohibition of alcohol afforded them marvellous matter for the pleading of the liberty of men and women against the tyranny of majorities , and they sang or preached several eloquent perorations in praise of freedom . |
| 25 | Instead , Frith sent them strange singers , beautiful and sick like oak-apples , like robins ' pin-cushions on the wild rose . |
| 26 | Workers looked to the national state , over which democracy gave them some influence , to protect them against the ravages of an unregulated world economy . |
| 27 | What I 've done is just taken over from Catherine last year on her topics which er , seem to quite successful and I certainly know that Marian did them last year and found them good . |
| 28 | In 1907 , however , the Bondholders had a great deal more at risk than in the 1960 's and the 2:1 arrangement gave them some protection and rights over their own investments and the Club 's destiny . |
| 29 | Another oil company Conoco won them second place , AOC International third and Marathon Oils fourth . |
| 30 | Teachers felt that this text offered them many opportunities for the development of the understanding of parental roles and it was thought to be a book from which all sorts of related topic work could be derived . |