Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] them [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sussex , though , are unlikely to be among the cynical chorus , not after their slip-up against the Minor Counties on a Marlow marsh made them the 14th first-class county in 55– or 6–overs play to have their colours lowered by junior opposition . |
| 2 | They claimed that drinking the tea gave them an intense , trip-like experience . |
| 3 | So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards . |
| 4 | But working-class discontent was fierce and the ability of the industrial proletariat to paralyse large plants and even whole areas by strike action gave them an immediate power of disruption which the peasantry lacked . |
| 5 | City had not won a League game at Portman Road for 30 years , and had not scored in their last seven visits , but the jinx looked to have come to an end when Gary Flitcroft 's first senior goal for the club gave them a 37th minute lead . |
| 6 | Housewifely talk suited them no better . |
| 7 | They would be more than willing to move as long as Leeds council offered them a suitable alternative with security of tenure ( this in effect means building them a brand new stadium from scratch ) . |
| 8 | Yolanda , 64 , said she was amazed when the city council offered them a two-bedroom house . |
| 9 | Yolanda , 64 , said she was amazed when the city council offered them a two-bedroom house . |
| 10 | But it also seemed that the Treasury had wanted to forget about the competition , as three days later Hall sent them a long and detailed reminder about its progress . |
| 11 | Our coach gave them a real buzz . |
| 12 | The bachelor gave them an angry look . |
| 13 | A claret jacketed waiter served them a warmed-up airline meal with little bottles of wine . |
| 14 | Eventually a noise abatement notice was served on them , and erm immediately after that the landlord offered them a hundred pounds to leave , and they left . |
| 15 | For a great many women artists , Surrealism gave them an invaluable springboard into their own imaginations , but it did not provide an environment in which they could flourish . |
| 16 | Sky 's Premier League debut netted them an average audience of only 820,000 . |
| 17 | The offer made them a special case but by the same token was condemned by other groups such as the ancillary workers , who protested that they were offered only 4 per cent . |
| 18 | The captain showed them a rough map drawn crudely on tough , brown vellum and with a stubby finger and guttural comments pointed out the coastline of Fife , the manor of Kinghorn and the possible place where the French could dock to pick up a party from the beach . |
| 19 | Odd hairs straggled out of various warts , and the brown freckles of age gave them a strange resemblance to the stones . |
| 20 | The Green Bay Packers kept alive their play-off bid when Brett Favre 's six-yard pass to Sterling Sharpe late in the game gave them a 16-14 win at the Houston Oilers . |
| 21 | At Corbett 's bidding an old man showed them the blood-spattered piece of ground where their priest had been found . |
| 22 | CORK 'S superior craft and greater practical awareness earned them the Royal Liver National Hurling League title after a marathon contest with Wexford in Thurles yesterday . |
| 23 | A group of young teenage girls once admitted to me that although they frequently complained because their parents insisted that they should be home by a certain time , they recognized that the deadline gave them a useful excuse for not getting out of their depth . |
| 24 | Taheb 's litter carried them the short distance within the compound to the towering , dark house of the Controller of the Silver Mines . |
| 25 | Some Arabs in a tent gave them a little water and then the exhausted men finally stumbled into an outpost of the King 's Dragoon Guards . |
| 26 | Later in the evening , when the sheep and cows were in , and the family was sitting round the fire , Śa kar told them the whole story of what had happened . |
| 27 | A column of 400 Japanese followed them a few days later and reached Remexio , but there were no Australians in the town . |
| 28 | GHI verdict : Our testers , heavy with cold , found that the vaporiser gave them a good night 's sleep ; even their husbands/partners slept better . |
| 29 | ELTON John and his partner Bernie Taupin joined the ranks of the greats today after an American company paid them the biggest advance in music history . |
| 30 | Karl waved a hand , a brown-uniformed attendant gave them a respectful salute , and they sauntered out . |