Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] them [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He erm , he left school , he only told them the day before . |
| 2 | They sat at one of the marble-topped tables and ordered coffee from a bored waitress who scarcely spared them a glance . |
| 3 | Then I began to run into the guards , and every guard I saw , I did n't say anything , I just showed them the piece of paper which had written on it Hotel Intourist in Russian , and the phrase book . |
| 4 | It just gave them an excuse to do what they wanted in the name of the Devil . |
| 5 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 6 | He felt uncomfortable , uneasy at the way the Prince and Gaveston hardly spared them a glance whilst their companions at table treated them as if they simply did not exist . |
| 7 | It grew to be a sort of gang , and we always called them The Gang when we talked about them privately , Anna and I. I felt so sophisticated and intellectual talking about Rimbaud and Baudelaire at two in the morning , to handsome young men with scholarships to the Sorbonne . |
| 8 | The political situation still gave them no alternative to the regent 's French policy . |
| 9 | For while the Jags put on a polished professional display which deservedly earned them a point , Rangers produced a curate 's egg of a performance . |
| 10 | And perhaps because of Chrysler 's ignominious retreat from our only volume car manufacturing plant , we spared the cars nothing — never once gave them the benefit of the doubt in the sort of conditions which could tear a wheel off a less rugged vehicle . |
| 11 | The prestigious Wedgwood name also made them a propaganda target for Hitler 's forces . |
| 12 | It also took them an hour to assemble in the darkness and likewise they discovered that most of their supply containers were missing . |
| 13 | However , a free-kick from Nevin nearly brought them a goal immediately before Pearce should have given Forest the lead . |
| 14 | In line with the Group of Eight 's decision in December 1988 to offer fair treatment to Latin American debtors , Brazil in January 1990 proposed that debtor countries with payments imbalances or shortages of hard currency ( such as Bolivia , Ecuador and Peru ) should convert their debt into local currency to pay for Brazilian imports and to finance cross-border ventures , and also offered them the possibility of buying back debt at a discount . |
| 15 | Made them envy the lucky swells who would be escorting her to nightclubs and restaurants , but also gave them a sense that she was n't stuck up , that she was a genuine person . |
| 16 | The original PSSRU schemes used shadow budgets for the case management teams ( up to the value of two thirds of the cost of residential care ) , but also gave them an allocation of money with which to purchase those services which were not readily available and which , although small , would make all the difference to keeping the client at home . |
| 17 | ‘ I really liked them a lot . |
| 18 | Taking a patronizing look at the newcomers , all aged only between seventeen and twenty and dressed in little check practice outfits , they decided that they looked childish and immediately nicknamed them the Tiller Babes . |
| 19 | ‘ I even took them a doctor 's note about Jamie 's illness . |
| 20 | The most important was the right to prevent any single investor from owning more than 15 per cent of the shares , which effectively gave them the right to veto a takeover bid . |
| 21 | ‘ I felt so sorry for the council I almost sent THEM a fiver . ’ |
| 22 | United staged a fight-back that almost brought them a point . |
| 23 | Keepers there gave them a bijou penthouse , an extensive garden and pretty soon they 'd sealed their union with a cub : one of very few ever to have been born in captivity . |
| 24 | Yet Town 's first real attack in the 28th minute almost gave them the lead . |
| 25 | from Gladstone and Gannon , and er he gave an awful lot of people at the S U and at Alcuin J C R a lot of grief over the provost , who then wrote them a letter saying I , Jim am the fault of all this and just generally made the students look even dafter for |
| 26 | You 'll have to go a very long way to find a series of more disparaging , gloom laden , negative reports , and this , in a season when Linfield 's performances actually won them the league ! |