Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] them [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that had struck them both , however , was the date the genotyping had given for the conception of the boy : a date which coincided with a visit Wyatt , Berdichev and Lehmann had made to a singsong house in the Clay . |
| 2 | But Arsenal began to display some of the tidy , organised football that had brought them four consecutive victories and they were rewarded with a superb equaliser 16 minutes from time when Campbell latched onto Martin Keown 's long pass , ghosted past two defenders and hammered the ball home . |
| 3 | Now she swayed on the towering waves to the north , and glittering on her prow were the slim copper tubes that had faced the ship of the Order that had brought them all from Rhodes to Cyprus . |
| 4 | In their personal lives there had been parallels that had drawn them close and formed a bond between them ; not least the loss of both their wives some ten years back . |
| 5 | The Avignon 's captain , strolling down from the bridge in a crisp , freshly starched uniform , smiled on hearing their banter and approached to greet them both with a formal French handshake . |
| 6 | ‘ They have made us offers and kept changing them all the time . |
| 7 | Her husband 's letter had reached them as soon as they arrived in their summer resting place and had plunged them all into abject misery . |
| 8 | From his days as a courier , Nicholas had many sources of information , and had asked them all to report . |
| 9 | He had brought out his lists , four sheets , and had got them half fixed to the door when Allan knocked him aside and tore them down and then spent an hour , with James 's help , going down the names and telling the young men to their faces whether or not they were listed . |
| 10 | Bowing to the inevitable , Kenya started to remove the controls in 1988 and had eliminated them all by 1990 , except for a few agricultural products like maize . |
| 11 | The argument held that in the past , cities had been regarded as disorganized complexities , and that the objective of planning was to impose rational patterns of simplicity ; Jacobs saw cities as organized complexities , and hoped to keep them lively , diverse and intense . |
| 12 | So it seems to me that you can not do analysis in a group because by definition the ego of a person in a group is , is detracted from , whereas in individual psychoanalysis and ideally the ego of the person is added to and enlarged to give them more competence by being made to face up to its repressions . |
| 13 | Each season , there was two week 's probation , which was unpaid even though the Labour Exchange considered such men employed and refused to pay them dole-money ! |
| 14 | Christianity forbade the worship of these deities , usually goddesses , and attempted to make them respectable . |
| 15 | The selectors could also have changed their top order , but decided to give them all another chance . |
| 16 | AI had reviewed these accusations , but had found them unsubstantiated . |