Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little evidence that peasant faith declined , but the authority of village priests was progressively undermined : in terms of culture and way of life they differed too little from the ordinary villagers to inspire much respect , and the miserly provision made them by the State resulted in constant friction over money matters between priest and parishioner . |
| 2 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 3 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 4 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 5 | Trent found them on the floor and watched the old man thread the sprung arms over his ears . |
| 6 | Well no the , the owner , the baker reported them to the police . |
| 7 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 8 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 9 | Scalding tears brimmed over , and James Halden checked them with the cushion of his thumb . |
| 10 | A car passed them on the single track road , heading north ; they stood aside to let it pass , waving at the single occupant when he waved at them . |
| 11 | With UN approval MacArthur pursued them across the parallel and on towards the Yalu River which marked the border with Communist China . |
| 12 | The long black limousine drove them through the wintry city . |
| 13 | The steersman showed them off the boat . |
| 14 | While artisans certainly had better opportunities than had most of the lower orders , it is probably unwise to insist that a very wide behavioural gap separated them from the " crowd " , at least until the last years of the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | Swindon were in no danger of missing the boat to the third round … just to make sure player manager Glenn Hoddle hammered them into the lead after just three minutes … |
| 16 | Leaves danced curlicues on the pavement as the wind ripped them from the plane trees and sent them scurrying along the ground . |
| 17 | He should be back by now ! ’ ran through his mind as the wheel threw them over the top again . |
| 18 | The wide , dry eyes followed them from the kitchen as they took their leave . |
| 19 | There was a school of thought that said they should kill the human , whose mad eyes followed them around the floor . |
| 20 | His Majesty congratulated them on the solution of this difficult problem , and pointed out that while France and other countries existed for weeks without a Government , in this country our constitution is so generous that leaders of Parties . |
| 21 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 22 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 23 | As the Dwarfs moved south Goblins watched them from the hills , reporting their movements by means of oily smoke signals and throbbing war drums . |
| 24 | A white limousine took them to the church . |
| 25 | On their return to Orkney , however , the Social Work Department put them into the Camoran Children 's Home in Kirkwall . |
| 26 | When war was declared and Braque and Derain returned to join their regiments in Paris , Picasso escorted them to the station in Avignon . |
| 27 | There was ZTT 's Frankie Goes To Hollywood , and Propaganda ; Paul Morley promoted them on the assumption that pop was run by flabby-faced cowards who did n't even know how to do their own job — in other words , it took an aesthete to know and score a hit . |
| 28 | They found that he knew what he wanted ; that he was persuasive in trying to get it ; that what he wanted was good ; and they suddenly realized that this new young professor dragged them into the twentieth century . |
| 29 | Corbett left them at The Bull , its narrow windows draped with black crepe in mourning for the landlord whose coffin now stood outside the main door , perched rather crazily on its wooden trestles . |
| 30 | The car pushed them through the garden wall and they were flung into the air and landed in the next garden . |