Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 " I 've heard about them in the Owsla .
2 At last , when he thought he could wait no longer , he glimpsed Benedicta slip silently up the nave to join the other two members of his congregation , kneeling between them at the entrance to the rood screen .
3 grapes no not one twenty , yes , Keith goes through them like a hot mouth through butter .
4 ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’
5 She had to perform for them with the spotlight on her and she knew that no trick would be good enough .
6 The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s .
7 The sand gets shaken off them at the knockout . ’
8 Luke was in command and this time instinct told Robyn there would be no withdrawal , no respite from his sexual onslaught , from the tension that had been building between them since the very first moment .
9 In short , Labour and the Liberal Democrats will have the argument won for them on the ground — and as long as they locate their policies in terms of wealth creation , rather than punitive redistribution , the current election election result has given them a platform from which effectively to challenge for power next time round .
10 Not that what I say makes any difference , because these two are still eyeing each other like welterweights at the weigh-in , and Darius stands between them like a referee .
11 And Marcus came to be walking between them to a partitioned corner of the changing room .
12 The Handbook of Over-the-Counter Medicines compiled by Mike Smith ( Kyle Cathie , £6.99 ) lists all sorts of nasty afflictions , from acne to worms , and what you can buy for them at the chemist 's .
13 Her body bounced between them in the light gravity .
14 Along with many a public body that felt pushed around by the Tories , the BBC must have gone to bed on April 8 with dreams of a quieter life on the night ; already swinging , as it were , in the hammock slung for them by a hung parliament .
15 It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining .
16 But the fact remains that twenty seven months after legislation to allow clients to choose solicitors to appear for them in the higher courts came into effect , the Advisory Committee has been unable to advance the process .
17 ‘ I can leaf through them on the train , and they might give me something to go on . ’
18 When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel .
19 erm Has that been a concern of unions , or has it been other sorts of organisations that have been pressing for them over the years ?
20 Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ .
21 The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months .
22 The Americans forged ahead not only because they could deploy greater resources , but also because they were more ruthless in seeking out key German experts during the chaos of the German surrender , and in persuading them to work for them in the United States .
23 I was going to shout to tell them they had forgotten me , when suddenly I saw a huge creature walking after them into the sea .
24 She is on excellent terms with all the regular guests , and looks after them in a way which is almost maternal .
25 A second set of trophies , the Thirsk Bowman 's Insignia , was presented in 1884 , after the death of Henry Peckett who had looked after them since the demise of that society .
26 I really needed to go to the toilet , but that meant walking past them onto the other side of the hall .
27 As described earlier , Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) have argued that they now have good evidence that the prior existence of a close supportive relationship is protective against depression if that person provides the support expected of them at the time of a crisis .
28 Often this is because they fail to understand what is expected of them under the broad , general duties of the Health and Safety at Work Act .
29 I asked my friends who have had au pairs what they 'd expected of them in the kitchen .
30 Theoretically one can have the best materials taught by the best teachers , but although a number of films have been made , and probably will continue to be made , they have not had the success that was expected of them in the fifties .
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