Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some circumstances as the cases show , Mr. Lawson referred to them in his skeleton argument , prejudice will be presumed from substantial delay . |
| 2 | Sylvie moved towards them at once . |
| 3 | I mean you get Sweet Fanny Adams done with them on the run up to Christmas anyway , E.l.S . |
| 4 | He stabbed a man scrambling up the bulwarks beside him , and cheered as Hector 's galleys swept up to the shore and another horde of Macleans poured from them to the rescue of their clansmen . |
| 5 | Lucifer turned on them with such ferocity that some actually fell backwards off their benches . |
| 6 | Angus talked to them in a strange tongue . |
| 7 | ’ Woolley looked at them with stony satisfaction |
| 8 | In the kitchen a few unwashed dishes remained on the table , and Lucy dealt with them at once by washing , wiping , and then putting them away . |
| 9 | Their conversation ceased as the eloquent tones of Michael Stein carried towards them on the public address system . |
| 10 | Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick . |
| 11 | Odysseus met with them in the wine-dark sea of the Mediterranean and called them Cyclops , Scylla and Charybdis . |
| 12 | Mannheim refers to them as ‘ wish-images ’ for a future social order . |
| 13 | Pumfrey and Fenniway gazed at them without touching . |
| 14 | Lenin referred to them as a ‘ separate social stratum ’ , at least until the highest stage of development had been reached . |
| 15 | Nancy moved among them for a while , making them welcome , peering into their pale faces with the object of discovering which were her grandchildren . |
| 16 | IBM came to them with the notion , the firm says . |
| 17 | There were several kinds with onion , ham , asparagus , spinach and mushroom , and Maggie looked at them with glee . |
| 18 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
| 19 | Piper squirmed between them for a moment , fighting to get free , then went limp . |
| 20 | There could be no more appropriate item with which to initiate such a project than the magnificent 12-part Motet In Memoriam Robert Carver which Ronald Stevenson composed for them in 1987–88 : a work which deliberately spans the centuries to invoke the spirit of Carver in new , late 20th-Century context . |
| 21 | They found Carrington and Grant waiting for them in the saloon . |
| 22 | The banks ' role in the economy is thus crucial , and this was underlined when Chancellor Kohl turned to them for help in rebuilding East Germany . |
| 23 | They hardly expected to see the BMW waiting for them at the dockside , but after they had parked the car and got the ticket , they began to look at their watches , and each other . |
| 24 | Before doing so , Father Duryea stared at them for many arduous minutes . |
| 25 | When the time came for them to go , Stephen went with them to the buildings , to see where the greys were stabled . |
| 26 | When they had gone , Lily cried for them in their helplessness , feeling , for all her weakness , stronger than them , realising that it was easier to contemplate one 's own death than the death of someone loved . |
| 27 | The director of one of the national galleries whose trustees were appointed by Downing Street ran into them in the very early 1980s . |
| 28 | ‘ They have been tapping the money that Place and Egan left with them for safety . |
| 29 | For example in Les heureux époux and Silène ( book 2 ) , whose airs were lifted from Danchet and Campra 's censored ballet Les amours de Venus ( 1712 ) , the composer routinely set almost all the new recitatives Danchet wrote for them in the mode opposite to that of the air they precede , although there is no affective call for this . |
| 30 | Damian Flint loomed beside them with Rachel 's case . |