Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malengin Fole led them through several apartments , all of them apparently abandoned . |
| 2 | At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel . |
| 3 | Nicandra led them by all the ways she had known and disregarded since childhood . |
| 4 | Evesham drew them from several Cotswold parishes ; the abbot of Owston received 2 marks a year from Tickencote . |
| 5 | In their first game the Transvaal beat them by fifty runs . |
| 6 | France and Switzerland were the only two which mattered in 1880 ; Portugal joined them in 1910 . |
| 7 | Valadier restored them in 1821 in travertine which is distinguishable from the original marble workmanship ( 157 ) . |
| 8 | Worcester were wobbling at 33 for three but Hick guided them to 158 for five . |
| 9 | In fact they were painted from dead specimens , and to get within range of a naturalist was a misfortune for a nineteenth-century bird or animal ; but Audubon painted them against realistic backgrounds , and in more or less plausible action . |
| 10 | Simon the Trapper led them by devious paths to the lakeside hut . |
| 11 | Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each . |
| 12 | Oxford 's two-one win at home to Peterborough lifted them into sixteenth place in the First Division . |
| 13 | The Buddhist-managed Lakrivikirana divided them into two categories . |
| 14 | Mrs Boswell had packed sheets in her husband 's luggage , and Joseph Ritter laid them on both beds . |
| 15 | The ‘ drifting youth of the welfare state ’ , as Arthur Bryant described them in 1954 , ‘ become the inevitable prey of the gang-leader or , at best , grow up to lead , despite all the material opportunities of our age , inert , stunted and purposeless lives ’ . |
| 16 | Pears was Boro 's hero when Cambridge put them under fierce pressure in the first half . |
| 17 | Langton led them through two more doors , finally coming to a small room with a desk and two chairs . |
| 18 | Certainly Cromwell regarded them with some anxiety , and in 1533 he made Throckmorton promise that he would ‘ stay at home and meddle little with politics ’ . |
| 19 | Gestures of this kind were part of the vocabulary of politics ; an astute politician like Philip used them to great effect . |
| 20 | That left seven , easily outnumbered by Boscawen 's 15 , plus frigates , and he used his superiority to crushing effect in an action which began around 1.30 pm and continued next day , when the last four French ships were driven into Lagos Bay , about 19 miles [ 30 km ] east of Cape St Vincent , on the coast of Portugal , where Boscawen pursued them into Portuguese waters . |
| 21 | The visitors were 82–2 but two run outs followed by a four wicket burst from Mannion reduced them to 94 all out . |
| 22 | Roman settled them at one of the small tables in a garden at the side of the yard at the Crowned Head . |
| 23 | A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . |
| 24 | Franks led them through some swing doors with a flourish and into another corridor , explaining that normally he would not waste money by taking them to a full editing suite . |
| 25 | Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions . |
| 26 | West Indies had lost only one home Test in the previous decade , and had not lost in Kingston since Australia beat them in 1954–5 . |
| 27 | Emily regarded them with cynical appraisal . |
| 28 | Coming back to the family after being away for so long except for short periods , Joe saw them with new eyes . |
| 29 | Asked on News at Ten about attacks on him by Mr Baker and other Tories , Mr Kinnock accused them of negative campaigning . |
| 30 | They all knew that they had to go on fighting , and be strong for their children , and Mr Edwards commended them for that strength . |