Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] them [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sussex , though , are unlikely to be among the cynical chorus , not after their slip-up against the Minor Counties on a Marlow marsh made them the 14th first-class county in 55– or 6–overs play to have their colours lowered by junior opposition . |
| 2 | Against Fareham the juniors trailed 2-1 at half-time , but a change of tactics brought them a 6-2 win . |
| 3 | Bernice gave them an encouraging smile , which they returned weakly , and detached herself from their embrace with one last squeeze and one last pat on the shoulder . |
| 4 | They claimed that drinking the tea gave them an intense , trip-like experience . |
| 5 | The pose of the bald egg-shaped heads , the jointed arms stiffly flexed in a parody of benediction , the staring eyes and curved arrow-like lips gave them the hieratic look of a couple of painted deities . |
| 6 | So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards . |
| 7 | But working-class discontent was fierce and the ability of the industrial proletariat to paralyse large plants and even whole areas by strike action gave them an immediate power of disruption which the peasantry lacked . |
| 8 | That is why , when the French economy was screaming for lower interest rates , President Mitterrand increased them the other day . |
| 9 | Frankie gave them a wide berth . |
| 10 | When asked which of all their various roles gave them the greatest satisfaction , 47% opted for being a mother , 22% simply being themselves , 15% being a partner/lover and just 10% being a working woman . |
| 11 | City had not won a League game at Portman Road for 30 years , and had not scored in their last seven visits , but the jinx looked to have come to an end when Gary Flitcroft 's first senior goal for the club gave them a 37th minute lead . |
| 12 | Housewifely talk suited them no better . |
| 13 | The pretence that statutes merely declared existing law was dropped ; they occupied areas of national life which before they had only occasionally entered ; they became far more precisely drafted and the judges interpreted them a good deal less freely ; they were , by the reign of Elizabeth , the outcome of a definite and recognized procedure . |
| 14 | They would be more than willing to move as long as Leeds council offered them a suitable alternative with security of tenure ( this in effect means building them a brand new stadium from scratch ) . |
| 15 | Yolanda , 64 , said she was amazed when the city council offered them a two-bedroom house . |
| 16 | Yolanda , 64 , said she was amazed when the city council offered them a two-bedroom house . |
| 17 | But it also seemed that the Treasury had wanted to forget about the competition , as three days later Hall sent them a long and detailed reminder about its progress . |
| 18 | Our coach gave them a real buzz . |
| 19 | Carrefour gave them a wide grin , and stepped down the shadow path to their leader . |
| 20 | The bachelor gave them an angry look . |
| 21 | Her soldier companion urged her forward along a gully , which they crawled along until a gap between two boulders gave them a clear view of the landscape . |
| 22 | Their strictures on the ‘ maximalism ’ of the Bolsheviks , on the ‘ premature ’ nature of the October revolution , and on the backwardness of Russia gave them a broad area of common ground with the liberal view . |
| 23 | A claret jacketed waiter served them a warmed-up airline meal with little bottles of wine . |
| 24 | The folk at Fanmore gave them a good fight last week , and drove them off with five men dead , and they 've not been seen since . |
| 25 | Catherine and Mary together sang ‘ The Lover 's Complaint ’ ; Mrs Robinson gave them a moving ballad about a double death on Scafell ; Annie began a song , burst into embarrassment and ran out with Damson mewing ‘ No-oo-oo , No-oo-oo ’ , behind her . |
| 26 | Scarborough booked a fourth round tie against either Derby or Arsenal when second-half goals from Tommy Mooney and Andy Mockler gave them a 2–1 win over Plymouth . |
| 27 | On reaching the Spanish borders where officials gave them a hard time , Norman thought it advisable if Minton drove off . |
| 28 | Eventually a noise abatement notice was served on them , and erm immediately after that the landlord offered them a hundred pounds to leave , and they left . |
| 29 | For a great many women artists , Surrealism gave them an invaluable springboard into their own imaginations , but it did not provide an environment in which they could flourish . |
| 30 | Ponies tacked up in the pony lines yawned with boredom as their owners gave them a last polish . |