Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Japanese records suggest that Kim was opposing them in May 1929 . |
2 | On the way home in the taxi ( Nigel was indulging them for once — he could n't let Gina use her bike under the circumstances ) he took delight in telling her she had a spot on her backside . |
3 | Because these areas contained many people of Slovenian stock , Tito was claiming them as parts of a " Greater Yugoslavia " . |
4 | Mrs. Jarrett was leaving them with a legacy . |
5 | ‘ I thought Oliver was getting them for Rosie . ’ |
6 | Agnese was leading them through the front door into a cool tiled hallway , strewn with locally woven rugs and sweet with the delicate scent of freesias . |
7 | All of them were drawn together on the basis of a conviction similar to our own that God was calling them to something new . |
8 | Colonel Goreng was to entertain them at home that evening . |
9 | Talk was intense among the youngsters , and the young actors and actresses roaming Sunset Strip were no different to the youth of America , if not the world , in that they too were a disoriented bunch in search of idols ; Clift , Brando and Dean were providing them with a whole new repertoire of sayings , postures , stances and gestures . |
10 | Eachuinn Odhar was awaiting them among the crowd in the hall . |
11 | She wondered whether Bryony was offended ; perhaps she thought Carolyn was criticizing them for not keeping it cleaner . |
12 | By May 1987 McFarlane was describing them to the Baltimore Sun as ‘ incompetent Coca-Cola bottlers and clerks ’ . |
13 | Eventually she noticed the changing note of the engine as they began to descend , and soon Marc was bringing them to a more sedate pace as he nursed the car over the drawbridge . |
14 | Because now Cardiff was hauling them through the staircase door and back on to the first-floor landing . |
15 | He was selling Gary Druer from Travel Enterprise rooms at rock-bottom rates , and Gary was retailing them to the client for top whack , trading on our reputation . |
16 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |