Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 2 | Trent found them on the floor and watched the old man thread the sprung arms over his ears . |
| 3 | In traditional manner Rolle treats the gifts of the Holy Spirit listed as Wisdom , Understanding , Counsel , Might , Knowledge Piety and Fear of the Lord in Isaiah 11 in the inverted hierarchical order Counsel , Understanding , Wisdom to relate them to the process of withdrawal from the world and achievement of that inner discretion which is the ground of contemplation ; he then deals with strength , piety , knowledge and the fear of the Lord itemised as forces which stimulate man to self-knowledge and help the soul to endure against sin , all aspects of a more active spirituality . |
| 4 | Sandy was doing a trash all-nighter at the Scala , and Dionne met them with a cocktail shaker . |
| 5 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 6 | Medau teachers invited Patricia McCall to instruct them in the principles of Laban Movement at their September Training Day ; in St Andrews , Rosalind Garton follows her evening Medau class immediately with a Yoga session , and is delighted by the enthusiasm shown for the idea . |
| 7 | Scalding tears brimmed over , and James Halden checked them with the cushion of his thumb . |
| 8 | Philpott led them to a pale-blue door at the end of the passage . |
| 9 | This situation , in which other countries were relying on the United States to provide them with the dollars needed to boost their reserves , seemed to leave the USA in a highly privileged position , for the only way that other countries could accumulate reserves was if the USA provided them , by spending abroad more than it received . |
| 10 | Richard defeated them in a battle between St Maigrin and Bouteville towards the end of May . |
| 11 | With UN approval MacArthur pursued them across the parallel and on towards the Yalu River which marked the border with Communist China . |
| 12 | Interviewed by , of all newspapers , The Daily Worker ( now The Morning Star ) , Raymond Cusick provided them with a colour illustration interpreting his idea of what lay inside . |
| 13 | Swindon were in no danger of missing the boat to the third round … just to make sure player manager Glenn Hoddle hammered them into the lead after just three minutes … |
| 14 | But the women 's fight immediately loses control and Spenser depicts them as a tiger and a lioness , beasts confronting one another with animal fury unnaturally seeking to attack their legitimate feminine identity : |
| 15 | To bring about greater stylistic variation and interest , the extract could be rewritten , by combining sentences ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , and sentences ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) : As a way of reflecting the development of their heroines , both Brontë and Hardy present them within an organic structure . |
| 16 | Donna watched them for a moment , then looked away . |
| 17 | Madame Gautier watched them for a moment , drawing deeply on her cigarette . |
| 18 | Signs outside Dunkirk steered them onto a ring road westward of the town . |
| 19 | In The Groove , who runs at Phoenix Park on Saturday , has not achieved nearly as much as Dead Certain , but Elsworth rates them on a par . |
| 20 | In 1295 Edward taxed them in a parliament attended by clerical proctors , though there were difficulties . |
| 21 | When war was declared and Braque and Derain returned to join their regiments in Paris , Picasso escorted them to the station in Avignon . |
| 22 | Branson bought them at an auction which inflated the group 's price far beyond its true value . |
| 23 | There was ZTT 's Frankie Goes To Hollywood , and Propaganda ; Paul Morley promoted them on the assumption that pop was run by flabby-faced cowards who did n't even know how to do their own job — in other words , it took an aesthete to know and score a hit . |
| 24 | The replacements got their planes off the ground and Woolley marshalled them into a broad arrowhead , with Dickinson and Church out on the flanks . |
| 25 | In the worst of conditions , Gloucester were desperate to win and they made sure of victory in the first half , when Martin Roberts kicked them into a 6-0 lead with 2 penalties . |
| 26 | Corbett left them at The Bull , its narrow windows draped with black crepe in mourning for the landlord whose coffin now stood outside the main door , perched rather crazily on its wooden trestles . |
| 27 | Lifting his arms high , he called upon Baron Samedi to admit them to the cemetery . |
| 28 | Samuel had already arrived and within a few minutes they were joined by Neville Chamberlain , MacDonald told them of the situation in the Cabinet , and of his advice to the King . |
| 29 | This may turn out to be possibly the most innovative airshow scenario staged anywhere this year — detailed down to Flyco flagging them off the ‘ deck ’ . |
| 30 | Benny was holding the cartridges steady while Garry filled them with the gunpowder . |