Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] them [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They recorded the usual four songs and gave them both English and Ukrainian names . |
| 2 | The farmers gathered then at the gates of the local authority offices and forced them open . |
| 3 | Something changed in his face then , some fleeting spectre that drained the life from his eyes and left them cold and hard . |
| 4 | They applied such chartists ' techniques after a simplified fashion , and were surprised , not sorry " , when they tested them out on clients and got them wrong . |
| 5 | Last year , remember , she did up some of the bedrooms and had them decorated , her brother decorated them and also she did the erm the tables , remember , she stripped back some tables and varnished them and she made a lovely job . |
| 6 | He has measured noble gases trapped within the meteorites and found them similar in composition to the Martian atmosphere analysed by NASA 's Viking landers . |
| 7 | Slowly , I took my fists out of my pockets and opened them empty . |
| 8 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 9 | ‘ If we continued down this road here , we 'd still reach the Fire Court , ’ said Snodgrass , who was quite good at maps and found them interesting . |
| 10 | Had clear rules and made them explicit |
| 11 | Pieces of pine from apple cases became cricket bats , tennis rackets or hockey sticks and gave them endless hours of pleasure . |
| 12 | You laughed at Doctor Jekyll 's ideas and called them unscientific rubbish now see for yourself ! ’ |
| 13 | Klein reviewed the so-called controlled trials of drugs in IBS over 20 years and found them all flawed . |
| 14 | ‘ This is a young side and I 've known them for four years and watched them mature and get stronger . |
| 15 | Uncle John was in attendance but Aunt Janie sent a message to say she could not come , she did not like funerals and found them depressing . |
| 16 | The have built suburbs and left them stranded , separate from the ‘ official ’ culture . |
| 17 | She spoke of tears at times until they got it right but accepted the suffering as he had no favourites and called them all his ‘ dolly girls ’ . |
| 18 | He would never scribble in his annuals and had them all in order . |
| 19 | The grandmother had ‘ a wee shop ’ and the aunt was ‘ a dressmaker , she made dresses and sold them cheap , round about the doors . ’ |
| 20 | It was considered a treat to perform in Nehushtah 's chambers , despite her peculiar foreign ways , because she always showered the Ixmaritians with gifts and gave them delicious food and wine for refreshment . |
| 21 | Whether , for instance , concepts such as ‘ ethnicity ’ , ‘ class ’ , ‘ politics ’ are ‘ culture-free ’ , that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross-cultural use , is a question of judgement and , ultimately , of ontology . |
| 22 | The ancient superstition is that the water gods required a sacrifice to keep them content , and the church later named wells after saints and called them holy wells . |
| 23 | There were significant age effects in both tasks on these items , and many of the children in the two younger age groups failed to distinguish between deductive and empirical items and treated them all as if they were empirical items . |
| 24 | In October 1991 , she was asked to examine the three sisters and found them healthy in appearance and co-operative . |
| 25 | A father instituted his son and daughter heirs and left them each prior legacies of certain lands and loan books . |
| 26 | One county , Kopparberg , has handed over most of its budget to family doctors and made them responsible for buying services from competing providers . |
| 27 | Breeze ran to the windows and threw them open , leaning out to drink in the cold , moist air . |
| 28 | Hurriedly she unbolted the french windows and pushed them open . |
| 29 | In those days many Europeans , especially in Kenya , relied on Somalis as their headmen ; in turn , these Somalis identified themselves with their masters and gave them devoted service . |
| 30 | And then er so our Emma said , Oh well if you 're not do n't want do n't want these to come she said alright and she said she all the invitations and threw them all on the fire . |