Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He 'd left them in the Courtesy Cleaners : they 'd be ready in time for Easter Saturday . |
| 32 | She 'd left them in the caravan , and he just see the keys |
| 33 | And having pilloried them in the past it is only fair to hear their point of view . |
| 34 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 35 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 36 | We would have expected them at the beginning , and as we are still at the beginning , they ought to be here . |
| 37 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 38 | But perhaps he could not have attracted them to The Other Story . |
| 39 | Even if he had thought that his parents were still there — which I found hard to believe — he could have visited them in the morning . |
| 40 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 41 | So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted . |
| 42 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 43 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 44 | Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell [ q.v. ] may also have used them in the Mediterranean . |
| 45 | Their own educational socialization primarily through classics could not adequately have equipped them for the task of the " total " administration of a national culture . |
| 46 | If they 'd come we 'd have had them in the bathroom . |
| 47 | Okay , so I lied about the cuddly toy and the microwave , but I bet if ART could have got them into the Multiverb 's 1U , 19″ rack format they would have . |
| 48 | if it is not clear how the words were in fact understood , the question is how a reasonable listener would have interpreted them in the particular context . |
| 49 | It is possible that supplies may have reached them by the same inner Asian route by which they imported jade and turquoise and exported silk . |
| 50 | Beth had a love for children , but how she wished she could have borne them for the man she loved , instead of the man she was indebted to . |
| 51 | It is ironic that reforms intended to increase efficiency by introducing market disciplines should have undermined them in the one sector in which they already existed . |
| 52 | I accept the judgement of my fellow officers and , before I die , beg their forgiveness for having shamed them before the T'ang . ’ |
| 53 | Having led them to the lagoon entrance , the caller would fly forward to rejoin his body and warn the people of the coming of ‘ our friends from the west ’ . |
| 54 | This section of the book is designed to help you come to terms with your deepest emotions and the people or events which may have caused them in the first place . |
| 55 | Now all of this may well have made no difference to the final result ; the courts reading of the facts may have led them to the same conclusion whatever the meanings given to reasonable and unreasonable . |
| 56 | Right , having put them under the banner , clear banner of sales you know |
| 57 | No , mum said if they 'd have come erm , she 'd have put them in the bathroom . |
| 58 | The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car . |
| 59 | That would have taken them past the vital February sailing time along what Whitehall claims is an organised escape route . |
| 60 | Some readers may therefore have identified them as the police officers referred to in our article of May 13 , 1986 . |