Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] them [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police force generally left them alone , providing they kept the fighting amongst themselves . |
| 2 | But Mum just gave them one of her black looks and elbowed her way past the two women and went into Granny 's house . |
| 3 | The doctor refused to give her more sleeping tablets but scribbled a prescription for tranquillizers , which were increasingly prescribed for women like Clare , with symptoms of anxiety in stressful situations such as poverty , divorce , or bereavement ; women with marital problems and women who were out of work also found them helpful , although the pills did nothing to resolve the problem responsible for the initial anxiety . |
| 4 | This excited them — maybe the idea was right after all-and also made them nervous , both for their awn safety and for what might happen if the news leaked out . |
| 5 | With Norm 's demise , America 's beer-drinkers have lost both a role-model and a soulmate ; but , as it happens , the week also brought them good news . |
| 6 | Rhoda tactfully left them alone . |
| 7 | This created the problem that their English-style education taught them liberal principles , while the system then denied them that same liberal advancement to the higher echelons of power and social prestige . |
| 8 | Used to let them at me mum leave er my kids that she made of hers , yet she , me mum never treated them all the same |
| 9 | mother-in-law always had them flat beds you know and |