Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] them [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 2 | Two avoidable goals gave them valid concern . |
| 3 | It protected their backs , and protruding flanges gave them some cover on both sides . |
| 4 | A report by the National Council of Public Morals on The Cinema ( 1917 ) had also scrutinised the problem , entertaining a wide variety of evidence — on such matters as the educational potential of the cinema , censorship and licensing , the molestation of children in picture palaces , and a clouded discussion of what was somewhat eerily called ‘ the moral dangers of darkness ’ — as well as some monosyllabic evidence from children themselves on whether the moving pictures gave them bad dreams . |
| 5 | Northern Ireland 's experience in Spain and Mexico in the last two World Cups taught them that heat can pose more problems than the opposition for British-based players . |
| 6 | Then they played cards until stifled yawns and missed tricks told them that tiredness was now king . |
| 7 | If they were landowners , they had insufficient capital , if they were tenants the local practice of yearly verbal agreements with landlords offered them little security for a return on any considerable investment . |
| 8 | Nogai gave them fresh orders and sent them away again . |
| 9 | Radio , television and the evening newspaper carried reports of it that day and the morning newspapers carried them next day . |
| 10 | Five and even ten years ago academic librarians were generally aware of the demands and problems of user education in their sector , and the research and development projects gave them little reason to change the fundamentals of their approach . |
| 11 | The Wolverines ' borrowed silks lent them invaluable seconds wherein to close with those guards and sever their throats before they could fire or even cry a warning . |
| 12 | Charged with obscenity the magistrates gave them six months hard labour each . |
| 13 | But even though the makers recalled them last year to be modified , more than 35,000 still have not been returned . |
| 14 | We recruited a team of twenty-five young executives whose firms or colleagues gave them three weeks paid leave for the election campaign . |
| 15 | It is significant that the Romans gave them first place , whereas the Chinese valued them above gold , inferior only to jade . |