Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] them [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds : ‘ In the last year , most restaurants have brought their prices down or kept them the same as last year . |
| 2 | Depending on how influential people were , Mickey either nodded at them or gave them a hearty greeting . |
| 3 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 4 | In one act at the exhibition hangar gave NAM ‘ back ’ its workshop , enabling the restoration of Anson C.19 VL348 to come on apace ; it allowed several of their exhibits the luxury of a controlled environment ; gave the Museum an ‘ all weather ’ visitor capability and made them a suitable location for the RAF Museum to loan them their Airspeed Oxford and North American Harvard — see the August issue . |
| 5 | The waiter brought two tall glasses and filled them a good way up with Courvoisier . |
| 6 | But they met anyway , in part because in their early childhood one or other of their parents , usually but not always the father , had taken them aside and told them a great responsibility would fall to them : the carrying forward of a hermetically protected family secret , and in part because the Society looked after its own . |
| 7 | French aplomb was to the fore as Auguste handed the crab to them along with the hook , raised his new Panama hat and bade them a courteous farewell . |
| 8 | The over-running and Anglicising of the Highlands after Culloden , when even the traditional form of dress was banned , would soon lead to assimilation , and even though ‘ the inhabitants of mountains form distinct races , and are careful to preserve their genealogies ’ , Johnson concludes without emotion that ‘ while their rocks seclude them from the rest of mankind , and kept them an unaltered and distinctive race … they are now losing their distinction , and hastening to mingle with the general community . ’ |
| 9 | The government refused the paramilitaries the political status which they requested , and offered them the same terms as those given to surrendering drug traffickers : a reduction of prison sentences in return for confessions to crimes . |
| 10 | We passed the Gordonstoun yachts , Pinta and Soldian , regular visitors to Stornoway , and gave them a cheery wave as they beat to windward towards Lismore Island . |
| 11 | The skills and cultures they developed sustained them in a harsh living , and gave them a lasting , non-destructive role in Arctic ecology . |
| 12 | I hung the carpets out and gave them a good beating . ’ |
| 13 | The police at Castlereagh allocated a cell to each man and gave them a good meal . |
| 14 | Philpott lowered the newspaper and gave them a wry smile . |
| 15 | He sat on it with the two little girls and gave them a big smile . |
| 16 | And it but the erm the goats apparently were no problem today , they just stayed on and gave them a few bits and pieces you know so that was fair enough . |
| 17 | As they approached , they could hear that he was whistling merrily as he walked and , upon seeing them , he raised a hand and gave them a frank open smile . |
| 18 | The horse , trained by David Barons , was called Seagram — and gave them the ultimate worldwide publicity without the cost of ownership ! |
| 19 | They went wild and made us promise to come back and give a display , so a few weeks later we returned and gave them the whole show . |
| 20 | ‘ One way to get some good blood in the family , ’ Yanto shouted back with a grin , and gave them the well-known two fingered salute . |
| 21 | It was the young Scots ' first win in four outings and gave them an outside chance of qualifying for the latter stages of the championship . |
| 22 | He took of his glasses , put them on the table and flipped them a short distance . |
| 23 | And carried them a fair portion of the journey : " The thing we have that is different from every other faith is that Christ is a living Saviour . |
| 24 | Hailed as a modern masterpiece , it drew on the basic elements of nineteenth-century picturesque — towers , pavilions , arches , and vaults — but gave them a distinct Scandinavian feel and line , the spirit of the sagas , as embodied in the gigantic statues at the entrance . |