Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] them [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the registration forms came through , she apparently mistook them for election bumf and threw them away . |
| 2 | He glared across the breakfast table at them , quenching the morning cheerfulness in the kitchen , and fiercely examined them at tea-time as if to see what the day had done to them . |
| 3 | And there was a further link between rogues , masterless men , and the players ; according to some observers the theatres quite literally brought them into association , being the place ‘ for vagrant persons , Masterless men , thieves … contrivers of treason , and other idle and dangerous persons to meet together ’ ( Chambers , Elizabethan Stage , iv . |
| 4 | More than one was caught by a pair of squealing girls , who gleefully anointed them with kitchen grease and then fled with the warrior clanking in pursuit . |
| 5 | However , the company 's far greater resources of baksheesh soon restored them to liberty . |
| 6 | The process of decomposing system models mirrored the requirement to consider first the overall effect of the Act on functional groupings and structures , then to examine responsibilities and tasks in some detail , ie taking a top-down approach that was initially unconstrained by existing factors but progressively took them into account . |
| 7 | You know he just bought them from sale or whatever it was , sixty , seventy quid bit of polish . |
| 8 | Spells and love potions — not that Cormac ever needed them of course , because there was n't a woman in Ireland who 'd have resisted him . |
| 9 | I had been freelancing reviews for NME , but always sent them by post , when the very nice man at Sounds poached me to go and do nice juicy features . |
| 10 | Life-size photographs were displayed outside the theatre during final rehearsals and an enormous amount of publicity was generated before the show but Opening nights always took them by surprise . |
| 11 | This had the desired effect of quietening them again , and he acted while he still had them under control . |
| 12 | And Watford boss Steve Perryman still backed them for promotion . |
| 13 | Their anomalous position illustrates the danger of reading back ( even into the 1950s , let alone the 1930s ) the more precisely defined contemporary categories , and eventually exposed them to abolition . |
| 14 | Fearful that they would disappear without trace , the prosecutor rearrested them before they could leave the building , and later charged them with possession of cannabis , with intent to supply . |
| 15 | I also received them on behalf of the new church that she dare to be intimate in worship of her Lord . |
| 16 | 'In size ’ , it remarked , ‘ the Century rivalled the folios of Le Vaillant [ sic ] , but far surpassed them in excellence of the plates . ’ |
| 17 | Do you know , not a single rotten member of my miserable household appeared to be in the least little bit aware of the joyful nature of the dawn which I gaily urged them to acclaim . |
| 18 | There were many complaints that cattle infested roadsides , and their search for food often took them to rice fields and gardens . |
| 19 | Though we children heard a lot about my mother 's nerves , we never really saw them in action . |
| 20 | Their lack of other skills or a decent education often pushed them into routine manual labour , though jobs within football did increase between the wars . |
| 21 | Their concern for the Hungarian minority in Romania at a time when relations between Budapest and Bucharest were excellent frequently landed them in trouble with the authorities . |
| 22 | → If you took a dozen sheets of clear cellophane , drew around a dozen different guitar designs , including Strat , PRS , Ibanez , Jackson and various others , then laid them on top of one another , you 'd be surprised at how little difference there actually is between them . |
| 23 | When we grouped the sectors approximately into local government districts and then ranked them on density of oil workers , this ranking coincided with that based on data for offshore workers in the 1981 census , suggesting that our data was not affected by geographic bias . |
| 24 | Louis Maddox kept the globes suspended for a little longer , then caught them in turn , letting their brilliance fade . |
| 25 | Edith took the plates to Margot Iverson 's end of the table , where the vegetables were served , and then handed them in turn to the guests . |
| 26 | One society , the Woolwich , then challenged them in court : won , lost on appeal , then won again before the law lords last October , and retrieved £91m ( $160m ) of tax and interest thereon from the Inland Revenue , plus another £6m due after a further appeal-court victory of detail this week . |
| 27 | They watched as the judges conferred and then placed them in order in the line-up . |
| 28 | Albert Fall arranged for their transfer to the Department of the Interior , and then leased them in secret to two private oil magnates from whom , it was later revealed , he had received substantial bribes — some $300 000 and a herd of pedigree cattle . |
| 29 | In the aftershock , the communists ' allies there deserted them for Solidarity . |
| 30 | Whitehead kept Oxford going … or at least kept them in touch |