Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 91 | What magic did these brothers possess that had catapulted them into the rarefied atmosphere of the multi-billionaires . |
| 92 | Treadwell certainly had n't mentioned any of this when Spruce had interviewed them with the Bishop . |
| 93 | In places vehicles which had preceded them along the track had exposed the sterile moss . |
| 94 | Whereas Catherine the Great had confined them to the western and southern borderlands of the empire and Alexander I had encouraged them to consider economic diversification and cultural assimilation , Nicholas intervened in their lives more dramatically . |
| 95 | FOURTEEN months ago Matchbox announced that repeats of the TV series Thunderbirds had caught them on the hop and they would n't be able to supply any tie-in toys for Christmas 1991 . |
| 96 | But I met a man on the road to the other village — I 've pursued them over the mountain from Keswick and you know the road divides two ways — and he swore they had come this way . ’ |
| 97 | With automatic professionalism Folly had carried them into the bathroom and begun to hunt around for a suitable container before her mind turned back to the question of who could have sent them . |
| 98 | Worst of all , seamen rapidly came to the conclusion that the service and suffering to which the union had committed them in the name of Britain and the Empire did not extend to the shipowners , and especially not to those who were fortunate enough to escape requisitioning of their vessels by the government . |
| 99 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 100 | He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before . |
| 101 | They ate in silence , Corbett conscious of the old man staring at them now joined by the leader who had met them in the forest . |
| 102 | Perhaps if he had met them after the confidence gained by a successful tour of India in 1976–7 , when his captaincy was much praised , the story might have been different . |
| 103 | Others who were less impressed by what they knew about Law were surprised by what they discovered of his actual abilities , perhaps because his anonymity had prepared them for the worst . |
| 104 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 105 | You know it 's in in the form that we 've done them in the past . |
| 106 | I 've seen them with the tiles . |
| 107 | But I 've seen them on the pictures . |
| 108 | Well I 've seen them on the l lawn so that |
| 109 | mm , I 've seen them on the front that 's all yeah , mm |
| 110 | I 've seen them at the shop , paying their bills . |
| 111 | and erm I went to a youth club and I I was speaking to eight year olds and they 're asking about condoms cos they 've seen them in the street , so it 's obviously they 're wanting to find out about it cos it 's everywhere around them even , does n't matter what age . |
| 112 | ‘ I 've seen them in the fashion magazines and I must say , they sure are special . |
| 113 | That shop , I do n't know what the name of that shop is , but I 've seen them in the window lately |
| 114 | But we 've also had an artist from the Art Week event , which the Rainforest Festival overlaps with going into a chosen school , with a member of Friends of the Earth , we give them a talk about rainforest , and they do the , I do n't know if you 've seen them in the buses , the sort of advertising slots , we 've got 80 of those slots on the buses throughout the rainforest festival , and the children are actually drawing pictures for them . |
| 115 | They also knew that the arrested men were respectable and law-abiding and they were highly indignant when they heard that an official spokesman had smeared them with the suggestion of criminal activities . |
| 116 | Several people had noticed them in the bar , but no one saw when they left . |
| 117 | By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly . |
| 118 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 119 | Members were pleased when constituents said that they had seen them on the box , and only one Member had received complaints that he had not been seen . |
| 120 | This is the second skirmish in a brief cross-border raid for Edinburgh 's Joyriders ( the previous evening had seen them on the charity gig trail with Mega City Four in Tufnell Park ) , out to bludgeon the capital 's callow youth into line with their handsomely appointed tuff-pop manifesto . |